Finally 2016 is ending. As John Oliver mentioned in the last episode of his show Last Week Tonight, 2016 has been a pretty shitty year. So many music and movie legends passed away (David Bowie, Alan Rickman, Prince, Gene Wilder, Leonard Cohen, Carrie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds, and George Michael), and Europe experienced terror in many cities, including Nice, Istanbul, Brussels, and Berlin.

On the other hand, populist and far-right anti-immigrant movements gained a lot of traction in Europe and America. The popular vote brought many unexpected outcomes, including the Brexit victory despite Scottish and Northern Irish opposition, the Colombian plebiscite's rejection of the peace agreement reached in Cuba, and finally the astonishing Trump victory in the electoral college, even though he lost the popular vote by almost 3 million ballots.

The only silver lining of this year was the historic Paris Agreement on climate change. Let's hope this doesn't change in 2017 (cough, Trump), since that would make it a horrible year as well.