Jubilant crowds bid farewell to the hottest year on record Sunday, closing a turbulent 12 months marked by clever chatbots, climate crises and wrenching wars in Gaza and Ukraine. However, wars in Ukraine and Gaza cast a pall over celebrations.
Jubilant crowds bid farewell to the hottest year on record Sunday, closing a turbulent 12 months marked by clever chatbots, climate crises and wrenching wars in Gaza and Ukraine . However, wars in Ukraine and Gaza cast a pall over celebrations. The world's population — now over 8 billion — saw out the old and ushered in the new, with many hoping to shake the weight of high living costs and global tumult .
In Sydney, the self-proclaimed 'New Year's capital of the world,' more than a million partygoers packed the city's foreshore. Even before nightfall, tens of thousands of people gathered at vantage points around the city's iconic Harbor Bridge, defying uncharacteristically dank weather. At midnight, 8 tons of fireworks light the fuse on 2024, a year that will bring elections concerning half the world's population and a summer Olympiad celebrated in Paris. In New York's Times Square, crowds of revelers filled the heart of midtown Manhattan
Crowds Farewell Hottest Year Record Turbulent Chatbots Climate Crises Wars Gaza Ukraine Celebrations Population Living Costs Global Tumult Sydney New Year's Capital Partygoers Foreshore Harbor Bridge Weather Fireworks 2024 Elections Summer Olympiad Paris New York Times Square Revelers Midtown Manhattan
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