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After 21 hours of talks in Islamabad ended without a deal, US Central Command began blockading ships entering or leaving Iranian ports at 10 a.m. ET on 13 April 2026, while saying ships not using Iranian ports would not be impeded.

Dow appointed chief operating officer Karen S. Carter, a 30-year company veteran, to succeed Jim Fitterling as chief executive on 1 July 2026, which Fortune says makes her the first Black woman to lead a major US chemical company.

Patek Philippe unveiled 20 new watches at Watches and Wonders Geneva 2026, headlined by the CHF 350,000 white-gold Ref. 6105G Celestial Sunrise/Sunset, its first wristwatch to show sunrise and sunset times adjustable for summer and winter time, alongside its first automaton wristwatch and four Nautilus 50th-anniversary pieces.

Salesforce's developer conference filled Moscone West for two days of 400+ technical sessions, where it unveiled Headless 360, exposing its platform to coding agents as APIs, MCP tools and CLI commands.

Nutella's first new flavour since 1964 blends its cocoa spread with roasted peanuts and goes on sale at major US retailers nationwide.

The Chinese ONA Nitian Xie Shen: Nian Fan begins release, continuing the Nitian Xie Shen action-fantasy story into its next arc.

Anthropic makes Claude Opus 4.7 generally available, a notable improvement on Opus 4.6 in advanced software engineering, especially on the hardest tasks.

Jacob Wheeler finally won Major League Fishing's championship, catching 21 scorable bass for 51 pounds 11 ounces on Table Rock Lake's final day to beat Takahiro Omori by 13-3 and take $300,000.

Santa Barbara County Judge Donna Geck refused to lift the injunction blocking Sable Offshore Corp. from restarting its Santa Ynez Unit pipelines, rejecting for the first time the company's claim that a federal Defense Production Act order overrides California law. She set a May 22 hearing on whether Sable, which resumed moving oil in March, should be held in contempt.

MARTA started service on the Rapid A-Line, a five-mile route with 14 new stations linking downtown Atlanta to Capitol Gateway, Summerhill, Peoplestown and the BeltLine's Southside Trail, much of it in dedicated bus lanes. Construction continues along the corridor, with temporary stops standing in at five stations until final revenue service in the autumn.

WWE's flagship event returned to Las Vegas for a second straight year, drawing 97,126 fans over two nights; Cody Rhodes kept the Undisputed WWE Championship and Roman Reigns took the World Heavyweight title from CM Punk.

LACMA's permanent collection moved into a new home on 19 April 2026: a 275-metre curved building of glass and concrete that steps over Wilshire Boulevard on splayed piers, lifting 10,220 square metres of galleries some nine metres above the street. It completes a campus rebuild two decades in the making, replacing four of the museum's ageing buildings with a single level where the collection is shown without a fixed route through it.

The annual US-Philippine Balikatan exercise opened at Camp Aguinaldo with Japan and Canada joining as full participants for the first time alongside Australia, France and New Zealand.

Kaia Gerber fronts "For Kaia", Vuori's Spring 2026 campaign of new-season styles picked for her - AllTheForm, Sedona and Sunday track pieces - shot by Anthony Seklaoui, at $48 to $128.

The 2.25-mile automated people mover linking LAX's terminals to the Metro Rail system and the rental car centre began demonstration running without passengers, aiming for 30 consecutive days of error-free operation before it can carry anyone. Construction was originally due to finish in March 2023; Los Angeles World Airports has since agreed to more than $880 million in dispute payments on top of the $4.9 billion, 25-year contract, and has not announced an opening date.

The world's largest seafood trade show held its 32nd edition in Barcelona with more than 35,500 visitors and 2,290 exhibiting companies from 85 countries, both records for the event.

Heidi O'Neill, who spent 27 years at Nike and last ran its consumer, product and brand, will become Lululemon's CEO on 8 September 2026 on a US$1.4 million base salary.

TSMC's largest annual customer event opened its 2026 series at the Santa Clara Convention Center on 22 April, where it debuted the A13 process, previewed A12 and introduced N2U.

Frankfurt Airport's new Terminal 3 opened after more than a decade of construction, giving Germany's biggest airport its first major expansion since the troubled Berlin Brandenburg saga.

Nestlé grew 3.5% organically in the first quarter, led by coffee, even though its infant formula recall cut about 0.9 points off growth; reported sales fell 5.7% to CHF 21.3 billion on the strong franc. It kept its 2026 guidance.

Ferrero North America opened a $75 million Nutella Peanut production line at its Franklin Park, Illinois plant, creating 50 jobs and making the brand's first new flavor and its first product manufactured in the United States.

Noah Kahan's fourth album, co-produced with Aaron Dessner and Gabe Simon, opened at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 389,000 units, the largest week for a rock album since Billboard began counting units in 2014.

Microsoft's license to OpenAI's models and products becomes non-exclusive through 2032 and OpenAI may sell on any cloud, while OpenAI's revenue-share payments to Microsoft continue through 2030 under a total cap and Microsoft stops paying one back.

Oracle and BorderPlex replaced Project Jupiter's planned gas turbines and diesel generators with up to 2.45 GW of Bloom fuel cells, cutting NOx by about 92% at the Stargate campus in Doña Ana County, New Mexico.

Vinted completed an €880 million secondary share sale led by EQT, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan and Schroders Capital, lifting its valuation to €8 billion, a 60% jump from the €5 billion it fetched 18 months earlier.

Former Unilever chief growth and marketing officer Esi Eggleston Bracey joins Lululemon's board and will stand at the 2026 annual meeting in place of retiring director Shane Grant.

Figure said its BotQ plant had gone from building one Figure 03 a day to one an hour in under 120 days - a 24x ramp that delivered more than 350 of its third-generation humanoids, with end-of-line first-pass yield above 80% and over 9,000 actuators built.

Revenue jumped 22% with India's AWL now consolidated, but unrealised hedging losses from the Iran war and weaker associates cut net profit to US$265.6 million.