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On June 21, 2001, BHP Iron Ore assembled and ran a 7.353km, 682-wagon iron ore train from its Pilbara mines to Port Hedland, still the longest and heaviest train ever operated.

Shein confidentially filed a draft prospectus with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in mid-2025 after its London listing stalled without approval from Chinese regulators, having already released the communications firms it had hired to support the London plan. The switch set up a Hong Kong-only listing a year later.

Harvard, Tishman Speyer and Breakthrough Properties cut the ribbon on the first phase of the Enterprise Research Campus in Allston: two commercial laboratory buildings called OneMilestone, the 343-apartment Verra, the Atlas Hotel, Harvard's David Rubenstein Treehouse conference centre, 40,000 square feet of retail and more than two acres of public open space. It is the opening move on a 36-acre site, with a Phase B of labs, offices and housing still to be permitted.

Shein's shares fell 9% in their Hong Kong Stock Exchange trading debut on 1 September 2026, after an IPO that raised about HK$13.60 billion ($1.74 billion) at HK$48.56 a share and valued the fast-fashion retailer at roughly $26.5 billion. That is close to a quarter of the $100 billion valuation Shein commanded in a 2022 private funding round.

Chief Executive John Lee announced Hong Kong's First Five-Year Plan (2026-2030) at a special Legislative Council meeting, aligning the city with China's 15th Five-Year Plan, and delivered his 2026 Policy Address straight after.

When a U.S. Marshal falls in the line of duty, a seemingly cut-and-dry case turns into a deadly conspiracy as a family of law enforcement agents become the target of a mysterious assassin. Bridging personal differences and crossing professional boundaries, the Hollingsworth family must use the expertise from a lifetime of protecting civilians and politicians to protect one another and bring the killer to justice... even if it means betraying their sworn code. The premiere, "Pilot": A family of law enforcement agents investigate a double homicide involving a U.S. Marshal. A mysterious murder hits close to home, forcing the Hollingsworths to focus on protecting each other as a family. Season 1 starts on NBC.

Fiji, Tuvalu and Australia host the Pre-COP31 in Nadi from 5 to 8 October 2026, a preparatory meeting where Pacific governments will push to keep 1.5°C within reach, speed climate finance and put oceans on the negotiating agenda before COP31 in Antalya in November.

An emotional thrill ride through the day-to-day chaos of the city's newest state-of-the-art trauma center and into the lives of the courageous doctors, nurses and staff who hold it all together. This is one of those days. Season 12 starts on NBC.

District 21 of the Chicago Police Department is made up of two distinctly different groups. There are the uniformed cops who patrol the beat and go head to head with the city's street crimes. And there's the Intelligence Unit, the team that combats the city's major offenses - organized crime, drug trafficking, high profile murders and beyond. These are their stories. Season 14 starts on NBC.

No job is more stressful, dangerous or exhilarating than those of the Firefighters, Rescue Squad and Paramedics of Chicago Firehouse 51. These are the courageous men and women who forge headfirst into danger when everyone else is running the other way and whose actions make the difference between life and death. These are their stories. Season 15 starts on NBC.

In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories. Season 28 starts on NBC.

In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate, yet equally important, groups: the police, who investigate crime; and the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders. These are their stories. Season 26 starts on NBC.

Salesforce brings the best of Dreamforce 2026 to ExCeL London for a free one-day show of Agentforce, Data 360 and Slack demos, customer talks and an opening keynote.

Western Sydney International Airport, a AU$5.3BN project decades in the making, opens to passenger flights to relieve an overwhelmed Sydney Airport as the city's population grows toward 7 million.

St. Denis Medical is a mockumentary about an underfunded, understaffed Oregon hospital where the dedicated doctors and nurses try their best to treat patients while maintaining their own sanity. Season 3 starts on NBC.

The Betty Knoebel Arena, given a ceremonial groundbreaking in September 2026, is the centrepiece of a new Equestrian Center on the National Western Center campus in north Denver, paid for by the Knoebel family and the Knoebel Foundation. Plans put a 4,000-seat arena alongside a climate-controlled horse barn with close to 600 stalls.

Bruno Mars begins his 2027 Australia and New Zealand stadium run in Perth, with Tyla and Anderson .Paak as DJ Pee .Wee supporting; demand added a second Perth night.

Calvin Harris' first ever Australian headline tour reaches Perth, the opening night of the tour. Four outdoor shows across February 2027, all ticketed through Ticketmaster.

Europe's biggest Pokémon tournament of the season runs 19-21 February 2027 at ExCeL London, with TCG, video game and Pokémon GO competitions.

The Totalsports Two Oceans Marathon runs the half marathon on Saturday 3 April and the ultra on Sunday 4 April 2027, both capped at 21,000 runners, from the University of Cape Town.

The SKA's low-frequency telescope in Western Australia reaches its AA2 array assembly in 2027, the stage at which science verification observations begin.

DSEI, the UK's flagship defence and security exhibition, returns to ExCeL London from 7 to 10 September 2027, with land, air, naval and space zones and visiting warships in the venue's dockside setting.

The 11th Rugby World Cup opens at Perth Stadium and runs to the final at Stadium Australia in Sydney on 13 November. It is the first tournament branded the Men's Rugby World Cup and the first contested by 24 teams, with South Africa defending the title and Hong Kong making their debut.