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

that have managed to work so many wonders on the reconstruction,

it's heartwarming to see it again.

A celebration of sporting achievements, world records, and a star is born in a zoo

in Thailand. Every news outlets talking about her. This is Moudin's world and we are all just living in it.

And our brilliant health and science correspondent explains an excellent new treatment for asthma.

Oi, you signophils, knock it off.

And let's start big with what could be a breakthrough in space travel. In October, the giant starship rocket built by SpaceX performed a remarkable feat, nicknamed the Chopsticks maneuver by taking off from its launch pad in Texas before landing its first stage booster back on the very same spot caught by huge robotic arms.

The SpaceX team hoped the successful recovery will take them one step closer to a fully reusable spacecraft

capable of carrying humans to the moon and perhaps even Mars.

Our science correspondent Palab Ghosh was on TV talking to Nikki Shiller when it happened.

Palab, we've just witnessed history.

Oh my goodness.

They've done it.

They've done it first time. That was absolutely

...