Much of the world's population now more than eight billion-is hoping to shake off high living costs and global tumult in 2024, which will bring elections concerning half the world's population and the Paris Olympics.
But with the new year barely started, there were already ominous signs: at the stroke of midnight in Gaza a barrage of rockets was fired towards Israel a twisted reflection of the fireworks lighting up night skies elsewhere around the world. In New York City, thousands of visitors lined up for a chance to see the annual dropping of a giant illuminated ball in Times Square.
Nearby stallholders hawked vuvuzelas and 2024-branded hats as police fanned out across central Manhattan, towing suspicious cars, closing roads and manning a ring of steel screening would-be revelers.
Hours earlier, more than a million partygoers had packed in around the harbor in Sydney, the self-proclaimed “New Year’s capital of the world,” to watch eight tons of fireworks.
Pyrotechnics also illuminated the skies in Auckland, Hong Kong, Manila and Jakarta.
Nudist bathers wearing Santa hats waded into the mild waters of southern France, while revelers danced in the streets in Greece’s Thessaloniki.
In Denmark, popular Queen Margrethe II, Europe’s longest-serving monarch, chose her New Year’s Eve address to announce her coming abdication.
The 83-year-old monarch will step down in favor of her son, Crown Prince Frederik, after 52 years on the throne.
The last 12 months brought “Barbenheimer” to the box office, a proliferation of human-seeming artificial intelligence tools, and a world-first whole-eye transplant.
India outgrew China as the world’s most populous country, and then became the first nation to land an unmanned craft on the Moon’s south pole.
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