Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

The $16BN Makkah Royal Clock Tower, holding the world's largest clock face and the highest occupied space on Earth at the time, was completed overlooking Islam's holiest site.

Nekomonogatari: Kuro premieres as the sixth and final part of the original Monogatari Series broadcast, adapting NisiOisin's Nekomonogatari Black light novel as Koyomi Araragi investigates why Tsubasa Hanekawa is hiding behind a bandage.

Tatsunoko Production releases a bonus SKET Dance OVA bundled with the manga's 29th volume, wrapping up plot threads from the TV anime's final episode through the Sket Dan club's usual mix of comedy and problem-solving.

Nigeria formally launched Eko Atlantic, a planned city being built on land reclaimed from the Atlantic Ocean off Lagos, at a ceremony attended by Bill Clinton.

A bonus OVA episode of Kuroko's Basketball, bundled with the manga's 22.5th volume, revisits the tense championship duel between Aomine and Kise.

The Devil is a Part-Timer! (Hataraku Maou-sama!) follows Devil King Sadao, stranded in modern Tokyo after his defeat to hero Emilia, as he takes a fast-food job to get by, animated by White Fox.

The television anime My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU begins airing, a Brain's Base adaptation of Wataru Watari's light novels following cynical loner Hachiman Hikigaya as he's drafted into his school's Service Club.

Wit Studio's Attack on Titan begins broadcast, adapting Hajime Isayama's manga about humanity's last refuge behind massive walls after the sudden return of titans, giant humanoids that devour people.

Steins;Gate The Movie – Load Region of Déjà Vu opens in Japanese theaters, a White Fox-produced sequel to the TV series in which Rintarou Okabe begins vanishing from the world as the side effects of his time travel catch up with him.

Meyer Werft delivered the Norwegian Breakaway, then the largest ship it had ever built, from its Papenburg shipyard to Norwegian Cruise Line after an 18-month build. Her maiden voyage was the transatlantic crossing to New York, where she was christened; seven-day Bermuda cruises out of New York followed from 12 May 2013.

Rotterdam's man-made Maasvlakte 2 extension, built to keep Europe's largest port ahead of rising container traffic, officially opened for shipping on 22 May 2013.

Gintama: The Final Chapter - Be Forever Yorozuya opens in Japanese theaters, a Sunrise-animated film that sends Gintoki five years into a bleak future to uncover the source of a deadly epidemic called the White Plague.

Monogatari Series Second Season, adapting five arcs of Nisio Isin's light novels, follows Koyomi Araragi and the women around him as new supernatural "oddities" surface after summer vacation ends.

Two bonus original-video episodes of Kamisama Hajimemashita release with the manga’s 16th collected volume, extending TMS Entertainment’s adaptation of Julietta Suzuki’s story of a runaway teen who inherits a shrine god’s duties.

Toei Animation airs One Piece: Episode of Merry - The Tale of One More Friend, a one-off special that re-animates the Going Merry ship's final voyages and the Straw Hat Crew's farewell to it.

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A four-part TV special retelling the original Pokémon Red and Green video games, following trainer Red and his Charmander toward the Pokémon League.

The television anime Kill la Kill begins airing, an original action comedy from Studio Trigger about Ryuuko Matoi's fight against the tyrannical student council of Honnouji Academy in search of her father's killer.

Madhouse and MAPPA's Hajime no Ippo: Rising begins broadcast, the third TV season adapting George Morikawa's boxing manga as Ippo defends his Japanese featherweight title against a new wave of challengers.

JR Kyushu debuted the Seven Stars in Kyushu, Japan’s first cruise train, offering multi-day luxury rail tours around the island with staff outnumbering the roughly 30 guests it carries. The service became one of the hardest sleeper-train tickets in the world to book.

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Shaft's Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie -Rebellion- opens in Japanese theaters, the third film in the Madoka Magica franchise, following Homura Akemi as she navigates a new reality reshaped by Madoka Kaname's sacrifice.

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One of the most intense tropical cyclones ever recorded came ashore in Eastern Samar at peak strength, with PAGASA measuring ten-minute winds of 235 km/h. At least 6,300 died in the Visayas alone.

New MegaTowers that will dwarf your SimCity skyscrapers, futuristic vehicles, and service drones.

Aluminum frame, carbon fiber chassis, and topped off with a Gorilla Glass display.

T-Mobile will only be selling the 16 GB no 32 GB. $42 up front and $17 per month over 24 months. All told, that's $450 compared to the $350 Google is charging.

Sony's going all in with the PS4's exclsuive launch games. One of those games is another entry in the long-running first-person shooter series Killzone.

Activate a Nokia Lumia 2520 between November 22 and January 9. You'll be eligible for a $20 app voucher for the Windows Store.

One of the biggest events on the calendar for the industry and debuts will include the BMW 4 Series Convertible, new MINI, Mercedes S65 AMG and the eagerly-awaited Porsche Macan.

Shaft releases the Hidamari Sketch: Sae & Hiro Graduation OVA, following the art-school apartment building's residents as two of its members sit their final exams and prepare to graduate.

Frozen is a 2013 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, loosely inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's 1844 fairy tale "The Snow Queen". Directed by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee and written by Lee, it stars the voices of Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff, Josh Gad, and Santino Fontana.

The Attack on Titan OVA collection premieres, three bonus episodes bundled with the manga and Blu-ray releases that fill in side stories around the Survey Corps and the 104th Training Corps.

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is a 2013 fantasy film directed by Peter Jackson from a screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Jackson, and Guillermo del Toro, based on the 1937 novel The Hobbit by J. The sequel to 2012's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the film is the second instalment in The Hobbit trilogy, acting as a prequel to Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Using time series aerial and satellite imagery from 1947 to 2014 of 33 islands, along with historical insight from local knowledge, we have identified five vegetated reef islands that have vanished over this time period and a further six islands experiencing severe shoreline recession.

Mushishi: Hihamukage airs as a special episode of Mushishi, sending wandering Mushi expert Ginko to a village trapped in permanent darkness by an eclipse-linked Mushi tied to a pair of twin sisters.

Noragami begins broadcast, a supernatural action-comedy adapting Adachitoka's manga about penniless minor god Yato, who takes on odd jobs for five-yen offerings while trying to build a shrine and a following.

AMD boasted performance figure of 856 GFLOPS from the new processor, which utilises a heterogeneous system architecture, where compute and graphics cores share the same system memory.

Kuroko no Basket 2nd Season NG-shuu collects animated blooper shorts bundled with the second season's BD/DVD volumes, produced by Production I.G as a comic aside to the basketball series.

Little Busters!: EX is a bonus TV special continuing the Little Busters! anime, introducing newcomer Saya Tokido and the mystery she brings into Riki Naoe's life.

Brain's Base releases a bonus Natsume Yuujinchou OVA, following Takashi Natsume helping a snow yokai search for a memory she has lost during the winter's first snowfall.

Porsche formally opened its expanded Leipzig factory, adding a body shop and paint shop so the plant could build the Macan compact SUV in-house rather than shipping bodies in from Germany's other Porsche site. The plant has been Porsche's most precise production line ever since.

Nokia will reportedly announce the Nokia X (aka Normandy) Android device

Zaha Hadid Architects' fluid, BIM-engineered Dongdaemun Design Plaza opened to the public in Seoul, South Korea, transforming a former stadium site into a landmark arts and design hub.

Diablo III's first expansion strips out the launch version's real-money and gold Auction Houses and reworks loot to drop almost exclusively for the player's own class, restoring the moment-to-moment combat that made the series great.

Announcing the Office you love, now on the iPad ñ specifically Word, PowerPoint and Excel.

Chimelong Group opened Ocean Kingdom on Hengqin Island near Zhuhai and Macao, whose roughly 48.75-million-litre aquarium set the record for the largest in the world. The glass-and-steel structure needed years of specialized marine engineering to safely hold and display that volume of water.

New Start screen introduced in Windows Phone 8.1. Youíll be able to have your image on the Start screen, but itíll show through the various Live tiles that can be set to transparent. It also animates really nicely thanks to a parallax effect.

MUSHI-SHI The Next Passage premieres, Artland's sequel series to Mushishi, returning wandering Mushishi Ginko to villages troubled by mysterious phenomena caused by ancient beings called Mushi.

Production I.G's Haikyuu!! begins airing, a sports comedy following short but determined Shoyo Hinata as he joins Karasuno High School's volleyball team alongside his rival-turned-teammate Tobio Kageyama.