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About 500 staff of Moët Hennessy Champagne Services, the LVMH unit behind Moët & Chandon, Veuve Clicquot, Krug, Ruinart and Mercier, struck at Veuve Clicquot's Reims site after the company skipped the profit-sharing bonus for the first time since 1968.

The ring of 15 illuminated pylons that had welcomed drivers to LAX since 2000 came down to make way for 4.4 miles of new elevated airport roadways, with redesigned pylons to return when the work ends.

Nia DaCosta directs the second film in Danny Boyle and Alex Garland's post-apocalyptic trilogy, continuing straight from 28 Years Later.

The UK government granted planning permission for China's new London embassy at the historic Royal Mint Court site, ending years of delays and security objections.

Elliott Hill moved APLA chief Cathy Sparks to lead Greater China as Angela Dong leaves, named César Garcia to succeed retiring Carl Grebert in EMEA, and made Crissy Campbell interim head of APLA.

The Metro Board chose a fully underground heavy-rail line, Modified Alternative 5, to link the San Fernando Valley with the Westside through the Sepulveda Pass, a trip Metro says will take under 20 minutes.

Tesla began mixing Model Y robotaxis with nobody else inside into its Austin fleet, the first public rides without a safety monitor, seven months after the service launched with an employee in the passenger seat.

Christophe Gans returns to the Silent Hill film series with a reboot loosely based on the video game Silent Hill 2, starring Jeremy Irvine and Hannah Emily Anderson.

Huace's 48-episode historical drama Swords Into Plowshares (太平年), about the last king of Wuyue, premiered on CCTV-1 on 23 January 2026 with simultaneous streaming. It set a record for history-drama ratings and won Best Chinese TV Series at the Shanghai TV Festival.

On 27 January 2026 RTX reported full-year 2025 sales of US$88.6 billion, up 10%, adjusted EPS of US$6.29 and a US$268 billion backlog, and guided 2026 adjusted sales to US$92-93 billion.

The rebuild of the north end of SEA's main terminal added the airport's first at-scale automated bag drops, a redesigned Checkpoint 6, a new Bridge Level check-in, upgraded baggage claim devices and eight major public art installations. The Port of Seattle and Alaska Airlines marked the finish of major construction, the first of a run of Upgrade SEA projects due to complete before the summer's international soccer tournament.

On Holding announced that Frank Sluis, CFO for Europe and Indonesia at Ahold Delhaize, will become its Chief Financial Officer from 1 May 2026, taking the finance role from CEO Martin Hoffmann.

On 29 January 2026 Lukoil signed a non-exclusive agreement to sell LUKOIL International GmbH, its portfolio outside Russia worth about $22 billion, to the US investment firm Carlyle, subject to OFAC approval; Kazakhstan's assets are excluded.

At its first investor day in three years, held in New York on 29 January 2026, Starbucks said "Starbucks is back" and laid out a plan for more than 2,000 net new stores, smaller cafes and 25,000 added U.S. seats.

The Paris prosecutor's public-health unit opened five investigations, for deception endangering health and endangering life, into infant formula sold by Nestlé, Lactalis, Danone, Babybio and La Marque en moins.

Verizon added 616,000 postpaid phones in the fourth quarter of 2025, its best quarter since 2019, met its 2025 guidance and set a 2026 outlook of adjusted EPS of $4.90 to $4.95.