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N787BA lifted off from Paine Field at 10:27 am PST and landed three hours later at Boeing Field, reaching 180 knots and 13,200 feet. The first airliner with a primarily composite airframe flew more than two years later than Boeing first promised.

The world's largest observation wheel, Ain Dubai, finally reopened to the public more than three years after its October 2021 debut, following a shutdown for unspecified 'enhancement works' that dragged on far past its original timeline.

Aman's second Thai property opened within the historic Nai Lert Park estate in central Bangkok, a 36-storey tower with 52 suites and 34 branded residences, after slipping from its originally announced third-quarter-2024 window.

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.

Hershey closed its acquisition of organic popcorn and puffs maker LesserEvil, paying $769 million in cash up front with up to $200 million more if earnings targets are met. The brand joins SkinnyPop and Dot's Pretzels and lifted Hershey's salty snacks sales by about 22% in the second quarter of 2026.

The Middle East's largest liquids-rich shale gas play came on stream with a first phase of about 450 million cubic feet a day, the start of a ramp to 2 billion cubic feet a day of sales gas by 2030.

The light rail line runs almost 11 kilometres from Finch West station on Line 1 at Keele Street west to Humber College Station, with 18 stops along the way. The TTC runs it day to day, with trains every six and a half minutes at rush hour.

The first Six Flags park in Asia opened outside Riyadh with 28 attractions across six themed areas, among them Falcons Flight, billed as the world's tallest, fastest and longest roller coaster. Qiddiya Investment Company awarded a $1 billion construction contract to Almabani General Contractors and Bouygues Batiment International in December 2021.

The last section of the 57.7-kilometre Mexico-Toluca commuter railway, from Santa Fe into the rebuilt Observatorio terminal, was inaugurated, finishing a line that had been opening in stages from Zinacantepec since 2023. Its estimated cost climbed from $38.6 billion MXN in 2014 to $73.72 billion MXN by 2019.

The 82.15 km semi-high-speed corridor from Sarai Kale Khan in Delhi to Modipuram in Meerut, with 16 stations, two depots and Alstom trainsets running at 160 km/h, became fully operational, covering the distance in under an hour. Deutsche Bahn's Indian subsidiary runs it for the National Capital Region Transport Corporation.

An IndiGo flight from Lucknow landed on the first day of scheduled service at the National Capital Region's second airport, whose first phase has one 3,900 m runway and a 101,590 sq m terminal for 12 million passengers a year, designed by Grimshaw with Nordic, Haptic and STUP. Zurich Airport International holds the 40-year concession, and the DGCA granted the aerodrome licence on 6 March 2026.

The only man ever charged in Tupac Shakur's 1996 drive-by killing went on trial in Las Vegas, where jury selection began nearly 30 years after the shooting and more than two years after the first trial date.

Tesla's third-generation Optimus humanoid was due to be revealed mid-2026, with production at Fremont starting late July or August; the reveal has slipped repeatedly from an original Q1 2026 target.

Tesla unveils the long-delayed second-generation Roadster at an invite-only event for reservation holders in Waco, Texas, with a teaser showing SpaceX-style cold-gas thrusters.

Qualcomm's breach-of-contract and interference case against Arm is set for a jury trial before Judge Maryellen Noreika in Wilmington, seven months later than first scheduled.

Paul Hyon Kim, who shot out cameras and firebombed Teslas at a Las Vegas Tesla Collision center in March 2025, is due to be sentenced by Judge Jennifer Dorsey after pleading guilty to arson and a destructive-device charge that carry at least five years in prison.

LAX’s $3.34BN Automated People Mover - the driverless train meant to finally connect the airport’s terminals to LA’s Metro system - has slipped years past its original target and still has no confirmed opening date.

Brightline West must raise $400 million of equity by 2 November under its fifth amended deal with bondholders, the same day its $2.5 billion of bonds face a mandatory tender, while it waits on a $6 billion federal loan.

Rockstar's return to Vice City, the most anticipated game release in years, after slipping from an earlier 2026 target. Announced date.

After seven years and nine planetary flybys, the joint ESA/JAXA mission separates into two orbiters to study Mercury. Scheduled date.

The first phase of JFK's $9.5BN New Terminal One, originally due in June 2026, will not open before November 2026 at the earliest.

PAHO's Regional Verification Commission will decide in November 2026 whether the United States and Mexico, each a year into sustained measles transmission, keep their elimination status; Canada and the Americas region already lost theirs in November 2025.

The rephased Inglewood Transit Connector begins with three mobility hubs holding more than 1,000 parking stalls, event-day bus lanes, a rebuilt Market Street and a pedestrian bridge over Florence Avenue to the Metro K Line station, all due by 2028. The automated people mover it grew out of is deferred, with the right-of-way preserved at Market and Manchester.

Germany's long-delayed underground through-station replaces the Stuttgart terminus after two decades of construction. Estimated date.

Amazon says it has launched enough Leo satellites for initial service and will open its satellite broadband to consumers later in 2026, after an enterprise preview that began April 8.

Line 22, built as the Pinggu line, is the first inter-provincial metro line between Beijing and Hebei: 81.82 km and 22 stations from Dongdaqiao in Chaoyang through Tongzhou and Sanhe in Hebei out to Pinggu, using 8-car Type D trains at up to 160 km/h. Empty trial running between Hongmiao and Pinggu began on 25 August 2026; Jintai Xizhao and Dongdaqiao are held back to 2029.

Alo Yoga's first Paris store, a 2,120 m² flagship in the former Zara unit at 92 avenue des Champs-Élysées, promised for early 2026 and still unopened.

Sungei Bedok opens as the terminus of Thomson-East Coast Line Stage 5 and of the Downtown Line 3 extension, making it the interchange between the two lines. It sits above the East Coast Integrated Depot, the world's first depot stacking three rail lines and a bus depot on one site, and opens alongside Bedok South and Xilin stations.

The first 8.4 km section of the Phase 4 Golden Line, from Tughlakabad to Sangam Vihar, is targeted to open in December 2026; the rest of the 29.785 km Delhi Aerocity-Tughlakabad corridor, 19 stations with 12 of them underground, follows in phases. By April 2026 civil work was 78 per cent done with five tunnel boring machines still at work, and trainsets had begun arriving at the modified Sarita Vihar depot.

WHO South-East Asia's target to eliminate measles and rubella by 2026 reaches its deadline on 31 December, after being moved from 2020 to 2023 to 2026. The Regional Verification Commission warned in June that the target "may not be achieved" as outbreaks rise in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Thailand and Maldives.

Norway's plan to blast the world's first full-scale ship tunnel through the Stad peninsula has cleared its funding hurdles, with construction now set to begin in early 2027.

The contractor behind LAX's 2.25-mile, $3.3 billion people mover now says passenger service could begin on 6 January 2027, after missing an October target, but warns there can be "no assurances" the date will hold.

The 4.5 km four-lane elevated road ties the Mumbai Trans Harbour Link at Sewri to the Bandra-Worli Sea Link and the Coastal Road at Worli, crossing the Central and Western Railway lines near Prabhadevi on a double-decker structure whose lower deck replaces the 112-year-old Elphinstone road over bridge, closed to traffic in September 2025.

Four trains an hour will run through to Mantes-la-Jolie over the 47 km of rebuilt track west of Nanterre-La Folie, where Eole's first new section opened in May 2024. The full six-trains-an-hour service is not due until the end of 2029 because of trouble installing the line's new digital signalling and switching system.

The 32 km non-stop link will run every 15 minutes from 5am to midnight between Gare de l'Est and Charles de Gaulle Airport, a 20-minute trip, operated by Hello Paris, a Keolis and RATP Dev joint venture. The infrastructure company, owned in equal shares by Groupe ADP, SNCF Reseau and Banque des Territoires, says it financed the entire project without public subsidies, and CAF France of Alsace supplied the trainsets.

The FTC and state attorneys general take Amazon to a bench trial before Judge John Chun over claims it illegally keeps its online marketplace monopoly by overcharging sellers and punishing those who offer lower prices elsewhere. The trial has slipped twice from its original October 2026 date.

The revived Palm Jebel Ali masterplan covers 1,700 villas and 6,000 apartments for about 35,000 families across seven fronds, up to twice the size of Palm Jumeirah. Villa construction is running on all 12 residential fronds, with the island as a whole targeted for 2028.

The first phase of JFK's New Terminal One opens with its arrivals and departures halls and 14 gates, the start of a 2.6 million sq ft international terminal that will be the airport's largest.