Crowds will marvel at fireworks and toast champagne to greet 2025 on Tuesday, waving goodbye to a year that brought Olympic glory, a dramatic Donald Trump return, and turmoil in the Middle East and Ukraine.For all the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.It is all but certain 2024 will go down as the hottest year on record, climate-fueled disasters wreaking havoc from the plains of Europe to the Kathmandu Valley.As New Year’s Eve parties kicked into gear along Australia’s picturesque Sydney Harbour on Tuesday afternoon, many revelers were relieved to see the past 12 months in the rearview mirror.“Obviously there’s a lot of war and disruption going on in various places,” insurance worker Stuart Edwards, 32, told AFP as early crowds swelled on Sydney’s waterfront. “It would be nice for the world if it all sort of fixed itself, sorted itself out.”The self-proclaimed “New Year’s capital of the world” will spray nine tons of fireworks from its famed Opera