Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

SWAPO's Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah took the oath at State House in Windhoek on 21 March 2025, Namibia's 35th Independence Day, becoming the country's first woman president after winning 58% of the vote.

The Air Force awarded Boeing the Next Generation Air Dominance contract to design, build and deliver the F-47, the first US sixth-generation fighter and the F-22's successor, beating Lockheed Martin; Trump announced it in the Oval Office.

PLDT inaugurated its Digos, Davao del Sur landing station for the 12,000-kilometre Apricot cable, one of two Philippine landings that give PLDT routes facing the Pacific rather than the West Philippine Sea.

Loewe named Proenza Schouler founders Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez as its new co-creative directors, effective April 7, 2025, succeeding Jonathan Anderson, who had led the Spanish house for eleven years before departing the week before.

OpenAI updates GPT-4o to feel more intuitive and collaborative, with cleaner frontend code, better instruction following and clearer communication.

The Science Based Targets initiative approves Wilmar's goals to cut absolute Scope 1 and 2 emissions 50.4% and Scope 3 emissions 30% by 2032 from 2022, and 90% by 2050, plus land-use (FLAG) targets.

Production I.G's Kaiju No. 8 compilation film opens in Japan, recutting the first season around a new sequence in which intelligent kaiju attack a Defense Force base.

China Tourism Group Duty Free (CDFG), the Hainan-based operator behind most of the country's duty-free shopping, reported 2024 revenue of CNY56.47 billion, down 16.4%, as weak domestic demand and falling Hainan sales hit results.

Felipe Oliveira and Hiro Tagai, of ramen bar Koyoté, open an itameshi restaurant - Japanese-Italian cooking - in Salt Lake City.

Michael and Courtney Zentner open a 24-seat bistro in a former corner grocery in Charleston, applying French technique to Lowcountry ingredients.

US District Judge Dale Ho dismissed the five-count federal corruption indictment against New York City Mayor Eric Adams with prejudice, so it cannot be brought again, refusing the Justice Department's request to drop it without prejudice.

Tesla delivered 336,681 vehicles in the first quarter of 2025, down 13% from a year earlier, as it changed over Model Y lines at all four of its car factories; it deployed 10.4 GWh of energy storage.

Verizon guaranteed new and existing myPlan and myHome customers that their base plan price would not change for three years, with the lock resetting on every plan change, until it quietly stopped offering it on mobile plans in June 2026.

Abu Dhabi's CYVN Holdings completed its acquisition of McLaren Automotive and a non-controlling stake in McLaren Racing, merging the carmaker with EV start-up Forseven under a new McLaren Group Holdings led by chief executive Nick Collins.

Paper Plane Animation Studio's original series To Be Hero X begins streaming, set in a world where public trust is quantified and channeled into ordinary people's superpowers.

A-1 Pictures' hit romantic comedy about a bystander who keeps consoling the girls who lost the love race, Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines!, was renewed for a second season at a fan event in April 2025.

Transport for London opened the Silvertown Tunnel, a new road crossing under the Thames built to relieve the perennially congested Blackwall Tunnel a few hundred metres away.

Vuori named Texas Longhorns quarterback Arch Manning its newest Vuori Athlete, an NIL deal struck in its 10th-anniversary year as he prepared for his first season as the Longhorns' starter.

Tesla entered Saudi Arabia with an evening launch at Bujairi Terrace in Diriyah, showing the new Model Y, the Cybertruck, the Cybercab and Optimus and opening orders, seven years after Musk's 'funding secured' rift with the kingdom's wealth fund.

Meeting in Santa Barbara, the California Coastal Commission voted 8-3 for an $18,022,500 penalty and unanimously issued a cease-and-desist order and a restoration order over Sable's unpermitted repair work on the Las Flores pipelines along the Gaviota Coast. Sable says the work is authorized by permits issued in the 1980s.

Alo sued a Colorado shell company named "ALO YOGA ALO, LLC" and two men it says forged documents, posed as its CEO and tried to take over its trademarks in China and at WIPO to sell counterfeits.

Two shoppers filed a class action in Chicago federal court claiming Alo Yoga paid Instagram influencers who promoted its clothes and Alo Moves without disclosing the deals, seeking more than $150 million.

Prosecutors named the three judges who cleared Wilmar, Musim Mas and Permata Hijau as bribery suspects, alleging Rp 60 billion was arranged through lawyers and a court clerk to buy the verdict.

Istanbul's 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia began restoring its dome to withstand a major earthquake, a phase of a 50-year plan to reinforce the building with no fixed finish date.

A magnitude 5.2 quake 5 km south of Julian on the Elsinore fault zone was felt from Los Angeles to Ensenada, closing San Diego City Hall for inspections and knocking boulders onto State Route 76.

OpenAI releases o3, its most powerful reasoning model, and o4-mini, a smaller model optimized for fast, cost-efficient reasoning.

Hershey's first new factory in its hometown in more than 30 years, a 250,000-square-foot plant that makes the chocolate for Reese's, Kit Kat, Symphony and Special Dark, opened with Governor Josh Shapiro. It is Hershey's first fully integrated digital plant and brings more than 125 jobs.

Ralph Lauren presented its Fall 2025 collection, "The Modern Romantics," at an off-calendar runway show inside the newly opened Jack Shainman Gallery in Tribeca, drawing a front row that included Anne Hathaway, Michelle Williams and Anna Wintour.

LVMH shareholders approved raising the company's chairman-and-CEO age limit from 80 to 85 with 99.18% of the vote, clearing Bernard Arnault, then 76, to keep running the group without having named a successor.

Sharon Lokedi of Kenya won the women's race in 2:17:22, breaking the 2014 course record of 2:19:59, and John Korir won the men's race in 2:04:45 after falling in the opening meters. Marcel Hug took his eighth wheelchair title on the 250th anniversary of Patriots' Day.

Shareholders passed every resolution at Wilmar's Biopolis headquarters; in written answers before the meeting, the company told a shareholder urging Kuok Khoon Hong to quit as CEO that he would hand over to a good successor.

Tesla's first-quarter 2025 revenue fell 9% to $19.3 billion and automotive revenue 20%, with adjusted EPS of $0.27 against $0.39 expected; Tesla held back on 2025 growth and said it would revisit guidance in its Q2 update.

A bonus Natsume's Book of Friends Season 7 episode, bundled with the season's fifth Blu-ray volume, adds a standalone story to spirit-sighted teenager Takashi Natsume's ongoing run-ins with the yokai around him.

Kering reports first-quarter 2025 group revenue of €3.9 billion, down 14%, as Gucci's sales fall 25% on a comparable basis to €1.6 billion amid low store traffic and a 33% wholesale decline.

Nevada gaming regulators unanimously fined MGM Resorts $8.5 million for letting illegal bookmakers Wayne Nix and Mathew Bowyer gamble with illicit cash at MGM Grand and The Cosmopolitan, where the Grand alone took $4,079,830 of Nix's proceeds by 2020.

Mytheresa closed its purchase of YOOX Net-a-Porter from Richemont, giving Richemont a 33% stake in Mytheresa in exchange, after signing the binding agreement in October 2024; the combined company was renamed LuxExperience.

The Brooklyn Tower at 9 DeKalb Avenue, the borough's first supertall skyscraper, received its certificate of occupancy, issued as an extension of its temporary permit, years after residents began moving in.