SYDNEY — Jubilant crowds here will bid farewell to the hottest year on record on Sunday, closing a turbulent 12 months marked by clever chatbots, climate crises, and wrenching wars in Gaza and Ukraine. ADVERTISEMENTIn Sydney, the self-proclaimed “New Year’s capital of the world,” more than a million partygoers are expected to pack the city’s foreshore. Even before nightfall, tens of thousands of people gathered at vantage points around the city’s iconic Harbour Bridge, defying uncharacteristically dank weather. The last 12 months brought “Barbiegeddon” at the box office, a proliferation of human-seeming artificial intelligence tools, and a world-first whole-eye transplant. Russia’s is just one of several pivotal elections scheduled, with 2024 looming as the year of the ballot.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer January 01, 2024 02:18 UTC