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Sowmyanarayan Sampath stepped down as CEO of Verizon Consumer Group, with Chief Transformation Officer Alfonso Villanueva, a former PayPal colleague of Dan Schulman's, taking over on an interim basis.

Ferrero's turnover rose 4.6% to EUR 19.3 billion in the year to 31 August 2025, with capital investment of close to EUR 1.1 billion and the WK Kellogg Co cereal deal closing just after year-end.

About 135 Canadian athletes paraded in Lululemon's burgundy-and-red maple-leaf kit at the first Olympic opening ceremony held across four sites, with flag bearers Mikaël Kingsbury and Marielle Thompson leading in Livigno.

The DanMachi franchise confirmed a sixth anime season of Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? at its "Aedes Vesta" 10th anniversary event, following the Goddess of the Harvest arc of season 5.

Toronto's long-delayed 19km Eglinton Crosstown light rail line entered service as TTC Line 5, six years behind its original 2020 target.

Kinder Bueno makes Ferrero's Super Bowl debut in Super Bowl LX with a 30-second space-themed spot starring William Fichtner and Paige DeSorbo.

Salesforce put Joe Inzerillo over both Slack and Agentforce and named new security, marketing and architecture chiefs, replacing five senior executives who had left since December.

Bad Bunny became the first Latino solo artist to headline the Super Bowl halftime show, performing almost entirely in Spanish with Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin; it averaged 128.2 million US viewers.

A new training platform built on PowerLu, Lululemon's highest filament-count fabric, for heavy lifts and deep squats, wear-tested by Lewis Hamilton and Kayla Jeter and launched in North America.

A non-binding MoU for Aramco to explore industrial AI built on Microsoft Azure, a sovereign-cloud roadmap meeting Saudi data-residency rules and a global marketplace for co-developed energy AI, alongside AI, cybersecurity and data skills programmes in the Kingdom.

Heineken said it would cut 5,000 to 6,000 roles, almost 7% of its 87,000-strong workforce, over the next two years as it presented 2025 results in which total beer volume fell 1.2% and guided to slower profit growth of 2% to 6% for 2026.

Hermès' 2025 consolidated revenue reached €16.0 billion, up 9% at constant exchange rates, with recurring operating income up 7% to €6.6 billion and an operating margin of 41%.

The FDA approves new labels for six menopausal hormone therapy products, one from each class, that drop the cardiovascular, breast cancer and dementia statements from the boxed warning; 29 companies have filed changes.

Emerald Fennell directs Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi in an adaptation of Emily Brontë's 1847 novel about the destructive love between Heathcliff and Catherine on the Yorkshire moors.

Which? and Qualcomm signed a 'drop hands' settlement ending its UK class action, valued at about GBP 482.5 million, with no money for consumers, and jointly asked the Competition Appeal Tribunal to approve it.

A two-week stopgap for DHS alone ran out on 14 February 2026, and the department stayed unfunded for 76 days - the longest shutdown of a single agency in US history - until the President signed a bipartisan bill on 30 April.

The California DMV said Tesla had stopped using the term 'Autopilot' in its marketing, meeting the terms of the December ruling and avoiding a 30-day suspension of its licences to sell and build cars in the state.

Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4.6, its most capable Sonnet, which coding testers preferred to Opus 4.5 and which becomes the free default in claude.ai with a 1M-token context window at $3 per million input tokens.

IFPI named Taylor Swift the biggest-selling recording artist in the world for 2025, her fourth year running and sixth in all, as many wins as every other artist combined over the past decade, driven by The Life of a Showgirl.

eBay announced a deal to buy resale marketplace Depop from Etsy for about $1.2 billion in cash, aiming to accelerate its push into younger, Gen Z-heavy fashion resale.

Host Hotels & Resorts sold the 444-room Four Seasons Resort Orlando at Walt Disney World and the 125-room Four Seasons Resort and Residences Jackson Hole for a combined $1.1 billion, ending its ownership of both properties.

U.S. District Judge Beth Bloom in Miami refused to overturn or cut the jury's verdict over the fatal 2019 Key Largo Autopilot crash, finding that the evidence at trial 'more than supports' it, which cleared the way for Tesla's appeal.

Barcelona's basilica tops out its 172.5-metre central tower, making it the world's tallest church, timed for the centenary of Antoni Gaudí's death. Estimated date.

Studio Khara debuts a new short Evangelion animation at the "EVANGELION:30+" 30th-anniversary fan event in Yokohama Arena, marking three decades since Neon Genesis Evangelion's original broadcast.

Khara and CloverWorks revealed a brand-new Evangelion anime series at the close of the franchise's 30th anniversary festival, with NieR creator Yoko Taro writing and Kazuya Tsurumaki and Tōko Yatabe directing.

Taylor Swift's 'Opalite' jumped seven places to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on 168,000 US sales in a week, her 14th No. 1, tying Rihanna for the third-most, and the second chart-topper from The Life of a Showgirl.

Alo Yoga confirmed its first Australian stores, at Chatswood Chase and a two-level, 700 m² store at Westfield Bondi Junction in Sydney.

Salesforce closed fiscal 2026 with $41.5 billion of revenue, up 10%, authorised a new $50 billion buyback, lifted its dividend 5.8% to $0.44 and raised its FY2030 target to $63 billion.

Nike began sending breach notices on 25 February 2026 about an intrusion, found on 21 January, into a portal hosted by a third-party service provider that exposed customers' contact, order and payment card information; Nike says no full card details or account credentials were taken.

The European Commission ordered Broadcom and VMware International to hand over documents within five weeks in case AT.40924 (VMware software licensing), after receiving information alleging Broadcom abuses a dominant position in virtualisation software. The allegations are tying or bundling VMware products, abusive prices, limited interoperability and unfair contract terms.

BART's board initially approved an Alternative Service Plan to close a $376 million deficit if no new money arrives: three lines and 30% higher fares from January 2027 and 1,200 layoffs, then up to 15 stations closed and trains stopping at 9pm.

Neve Campbell and Courteney Cox return to the Ghostface franchise in a film written and directed by original series creator Kevin Williamson.

A Santa Barbara Superior Court upheld its July preliminary injunction blocking Sable Offshore Corp. from restarting the Las Flores onshore pipeline system that ruptured at Refugio State Beach in 2015, requiring 10 court days' notice before any restart. The ruling also clarifies that the Trump administration's December move to seize control of the system and issue an emergency special permit does not affect the court's prior decision.