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On 20 April 2026, a major earthquake struck off the northeastern coast of Japan. Authorities urged residents to stay away from coastal areas of Iwate, Aomori and Hokkaido as tsunami waves of up to 3 metres were expected.
On 9 February 2026, Elon Musk announced a 5-to-7-year delay in SpaceX's Mars ambitions. The previously planned uncrewed 2026 Mars landing is cancelled in favour of lunar missions and Starship reliability work.
Released on 24 April 2026, GPT-5.5 is positioned for agentic coding, knowledge work and scientific research. It costs more per token than GPT-5.4 but uses fewer tokens to reach higher-quality outputs.
Bitcoin set its current record on 6 October 2025 at $126,198. With BTC now around $93,750 in early 2026, analysts disagree on whether new highs come this year or after another leg lower.
At CES, Jensen Huang raised his prior $500 billion estimate of orders and revenue from the Blackwell and Rubin platforms through end-2026. BofA projects $400B+ of free cash flow across CY26-CY27 — roughly Apple and Microsoft combined.
Apple's fiscal Q1 2026 revenue topped consensus by close to $2 billion, driven by services rather than iPhone — and the result tightens the company's hold on the world's largest market cap as Nvidia keeps closing the gap.
Argentina's new monetary framework, launched on 2 January 2026, expands the peso's FX trading band by the inflation rate from two months earlier. Annual inflation is down to 31.8% — the lowest in over seven years.
On 29 April 2026, an unusually divided FOMC kept the benchmark rate steady, citing CPI back up to 3.3% in March. Markets price in no further moves this year, even as the median dot still shows one quarter-point cut in 2026.
The 20 February 2026 ruling struck down Trump's 2025 IEEPA-based tariffs on China and others, forcing the administration to rebuild its trade-war architecture under Section 122, 232 and 301 of US trade law.
On 13 April 2026, Trump escalated his China-tariff threats to 50%, citing reports that Beijing planned arms shipments to Iran. The threat sits on top of an existing 30% combined rate and a previously announced 100% tier.
The military regime announced the transfer of the 80-year-old Nobel laureate, citing humanitarian considerations as international pressure on the junta intensifies.
Satellite imagery shows southern Lebanese towns being completely levelled in what observers describe as the Gaza playbook applied to Lebanon. Over a million people have been displaced.
Israeli forces have advanced into western Gaza and expanded the so-called yellow line by 37 km, now controlling around 60% of the enclave despite a Phase 2 ceasefire that requires withdrawal. 1.8 million Gazans are displaced; the cumulative death toll has passed 72,000.
On 6 January 2026, 35 countries signed the Paris Declaration committing to robust security guarantees for Ukraine, including UK and French deployments and US-led ceasefire monitoring.
From 4 p.m. on 11 April through midnight on 12 April 2026, Russia and Ukraine paused fire for Orthodox Easter. Both sides accused each other of hundreds of breaches; US-mediated peace talks have effectively stalled.
On 1 May 2026, the Pentagon announced a partial drawdown of US forces in Germany, fulfilling a Trump threat made amid public clashes with Chancellor Friedrich Merz over defence spending and trade.
On 3 May 2026, the White House announced an operation to escort merchant vessels stranded by Iranian pressure through the Strait of Hormuz. Two ships have already been moved; the UAE reports intercepting Iranian missiles and drones.
Luxembourg's most important religious festival — the Octave of Our Lady — runs across two consecutive weeks each spring, culminating in a procession of the 70-cm statue of the Virgin through the streets of the capital.
Luxembourg's school system uses Luxembourgish, German and French from pre-school onwards. Since 2021/22, students in 4e (lower secondary) take a compulsory course in Luxembourgish language, society and culture.
788 small vineyards along the Moselle produce around 15 million litres of wine a year. The 2026 calendar centres on the Crémant Festival in Remich on 20 September, alongside continued growth in organic viticulture led by the Wine Institute (IVV).
ESL1 in Kirchberg and ESL2 in Mamer — Luxembourg's two European Schools — operate under a vertical split first set in 2003. Parents continue to push for a horizontal reorganisation that the Board of Governors has consistently rejected.
On Whit Tuesday, 26 May 2026, the medieval town of Echternach hosts the Hopping Procession of Saint Willibrord, the only annual dancing pilgrimage on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list.
The Grand Ducal Police's 2025 activity report points to a steep increase in violent robberies and domestic-violence interventions, against falls in fraud, vandalism and drug-related offences.
From Edinburgh to Tunis to Porto Santo, Luxair's network expands by nine destinations in summer 2026 — and the first of six Embraer E195-E2 aircraft is expected in the first half of the year.