The happiest stories of 2024 - from the extraordinary achievement in raising Notre Dame Cathedral from the ashes, to the success of the chopsticks manoeuvre to catch a rocket booster; and the baby hippo who went viral.
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This is The Happy Pod 2024 news review from the BBC World Service.
I'm Jackie Leonard, and in this edition, we look back at the most positive things that happened this year.
And yes,
there were actually quite a lot of them from a space story that made our science correspondent positively giddy.
Oh, my goodness.
They've done it.
They've done it.
First time.
That was absolutely astonishing.
To the rebuilding of a cultural icon in Paris.
I didn't think that in five years they'd have managed to work so many wonders under reconstruction.
It's heartwarming to see it again.