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The 2020s (pronounced "twenty-twenties" or "two thousand [and] twenties"; shortened to "the '20s" and also known as "The Twenties") is the current decade that began on 1 January 2020, and will end on 31 December 2029.

The 2020s began with the COVID-19 pandemic. The first reports of the virus were published on 31 December 2019, though the first cases are said to have appeared nearly a month earlier. The pandemic led to a global economic recession, a sustained rise in global inflation for the first time since the 1970s, and a global supply chain crisis. The World Health Organization declared the virus a global state of emergency from March 2020 to May 2023. While no longer considered a pandemic, many health critics consider the virus' effects to still be ongoing through new variants.

Several anti-government demonstrations and revolts occurred in the early 2020s, including a continuation of those in Hong Kong against extradition legislation; protests against certain local, state and national responses to the COVID-19 pandemic; others around the world, particularly in the United States, against racism and police brutality; one in India against agriculture and farming acts; one in Israel against judicial reforms; another in Indonesia against the omnibus law on jobs; protests and strikes in France against pension reform; political crises in Peru, Bangladesh, Armenia, and Thailand; and many in Belarus, Eswatini, Myanmar, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Iran, China, Russia, and Venezuela against various forms of governmental jurisdiction, corruption, and authoritarianism; along with citizen riots in the United States, Japan, and Brazil in an attempt to overturn election results. The world population grew to over eight billion people, and in 2023, India overtook China as the most populous country in the world. Among democracies in 2024, its elections saw an 80% loss of incumbent support worldwide, several losses being historic. That year, former U.S. president Donald Trump was reelected to a second, nonconsecutive term.

Ongoing military conflicts include the Myanmar civil war, the Ethiopian civil conflict, the Kivu conflict, the Mali War, the Yemeni civil war, the Somali Civil War, Sudanese civil war, the Syrian civil war, the Russo-Ukrainian War, and the Gaza war. The year 2021 saw the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan and the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, ending nearly 20 years of war in Afghanistan. The Russian invasion of Ukraine became the largest conventional military offensive in Europe since World War II, resulting in a refugee crisis, disruptions to global trade, and an exacerbation of economic inflation. In 2023, a Hamas-led attack marked the first invasion of Israel since 1948, triggering an Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian territory. The invasion has led to the displacement of nearly all 2.3 million Gaza residents, a humanitarian crisis, a famine, and a polio epidemic, sparking global protests against Israel. In 2024, a quick and renewed rebel offensive during the Syrian civil war led to the toppling of Bashar al-Assad and the fall of the Assad regime. Smaller conflicts include the insurgency in the Maghreb, the Iraq insurgency, the Philippine and the Mexican drug wars. (Full article...)

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An electric vehicle (EV) is a motor vehicle whose propulsion is powered fully or mostly by electricity. EVs encompass a wide range of transportation modes, including road and rail vehicles, electric boats and underwater vessels, electric aircraft and electric spacecraft.

Early electric vehicles first came into existence in the late 19th century, when the Second Industrial Revolution brought forth electrification and mass utilization of DC and AC electric motors. Using electricity was among the preferred methods for motor vehicle propulsion as it provides a level of quietness, comfort and ease of operation that could not be achieved by the gasoline engine cars of the time, but range anxiety due to the limited energy storage offered by contemporary battery technologies hindered any mass adoption of private electric vehicles throughout the 20th century. Internal combustion engines (both gasoline and diesel engines) were the dominant propulsion mechanisms for cars and trucks for about 100 years, but electricity-powered locomotion remained commonplace in other vehicle types, such as overhead line-powered mass transit vehicles like electric trains, trams, monorails and trolley buses, as well as various small, low-speed, short-range battery-powered personal vehicles such as mobility scooters. (Full article...)

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Image 1Teen girl wearing early 2020s fashion trends. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 2Icelandic pop artist Laufey dressed in a high-collared tank top and jeans (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 3Nintendo Switch OLED (2021) (from 2020s in video games)
Image 4 Brightly colored western clothing, early to mid 2020s (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 5Maximalist necklace, unknown designer, produced by Pull&Bear, c.2023 (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 6Actor Finn Wolfhard wearing early 2020s Indie Fashion (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 7Nintendo Switch (from 2020s in video games)
Image 82021: Nikki Phillips in Fashion Week. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 9Fairy Grunge clothing at an Urban Outfitters store (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 10Countries with at least one election date altered (from 2020s in politics)
Image 11Student in 2022. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 121960s-inspired outfit from 2021 featuring knee high boots, pop-art-inspired top, miniskirt, and cardigan with checkerboard motif. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 13Apple Vision Pro (2024) (from 2020s in video games)
Image 14The Imi N'Tala village was heavily destroyed by the Marrakesh-Safi earthquake in September 2023. (from 2020s)
Image 15 Contemporary Chinese Mao jacket, 2023. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 162020: Blush pink dress designed by Shey Natividad for DC Fashion Week. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 17Two women with Jirai Kei outfit, 2024 (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 18Xbox Series S (2020) (from 2020s in video games)
Image 19The highest-grossing film of the decade so far is James Cameron's Avatar: The Way of Water. (from 2020s)
Image 20Maximalist outfits worn by indie girl group Wet Leg, 2022. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 21Aftermath of the earthquake at Wajima morning market in January 2024. (from 2020s)
Image 22Quest 2 (2020) (from 2020s in video games)
Image 232020–21: Korean men in the 1980s and 2000s-inspired outfits fashionable in the early 2020s. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 24Jovenel Moïse (from 2020s)
Image 25Blackpink's Born Pink became the first album by a girl group in over 20 years to top both the US and UK album charts. (from 2020s in music)
Image 26Oversized workwear-inspired outfit worn by indie rocker Sam Fender in 2021. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 27Hassan Nasrallah (from 2020s)
Image 28Xbox Series X (2020) (from 2020s in video games)
Image 29The mullet/shaggy hairstyle became a popular hairstyle among men. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 302021: Italian band Måneskin in androgynous outfits. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 312020: example of a Dark Academia outfit. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 32Taylor Swift continued to dominate the global music industry in the 2020s. She released the million-selling albums Midnights, 1989 (Taylor's Version) and The Tortured Poets Department, and embarked on the highest-grossing concert tour of all time. (from 2020s in music)
Image 33All pink Barbiecore inspired outfit worn by actress Margot Robbie in 2023 (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 34The AI boom emerged in the 2020s. Generative AI such as Text-to-image models and AI chatbots released publicly. Machine learning systems that took minute(s) to produce blurry images in mid 2022 were able to produce more realistic imagery in seconds by mid 2023. English text would appear as gibberish in earlier AI text-to-image builds, although this was fixed to an extent with newer AI models such as DALL-E 3. (from 2020s)
Image 35Ayman al-Zawahiri (from 2020s)
Image 36Aftermath of the Spanish floods at Sedaví, Horta Sud in October 2024. (from 2020s)
Image 37Androgynous outfit worn by alternative singer Yungblud in 2023 (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 38K-pop group BTS continued to be one of the most popular bands of the 2020s. (from 2020s in music)
Image 39Singer Jack White wearing striped Madcap England blazer, 2021. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 40Hassan Nasrallah (from 2020s)
Image 41An earthquake-damaged building in Antakya, Turkey in February 2023 (from 2020s)
Image 42A 2020s custom built desktop gaming PC with MSI manufactured hardware (from 2020s in video games)
Image 43American singer Billie Eilish are among the notable examples of Y2K fashion revival. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 44PICO 4 (2022) (from 2020s in video games)
Image 45Karol G (from 2020s in music)
Image 46Qasem Soleimani (from 2020s)
Image 47Ismail Haniyeh (from 2020s)
Image 48French woman attending 2022 Fashion Week. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 49Stand-up comedian Kurtis Conner wearing early 2020s mullet hairstyle and mustache. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 50Donald Trump (from 2020s)
Image 51Qasem Soleimani (from 2020s)
Image 52American playwright and musician Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote the original songs for the soundtrack of Encanto, a viral phenomenon. (from 2020s in music)
Image 53Batken Region in Kyrgyzstan. (from 2020s in politics)
Image 54Jovenel Moïse (from 2020s)
Image 55Clothing items used to express beliefs during a Black Lives Matter protest. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 56NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 (2022) one the most popular video cards used for gaming PC's during the decade (from 2020s in video games)
Image 57Tablets and smartphones (Samsung Galaxy S23 series pictured) would be widely used to play mobile games which now form the largest sector in the gaming industry (from 2020s in video games)
Image 58Roku is one of the most popularly known streaming devices (from 2020s)
Image 59US Marines with SP-MAGTF-CR-CC at an evacuation checkpoint at Kabul Airport on 21 August during the 2021 Fall of Kabul, at the end of the War in Afghanistan. (from 2020s)
Image 60Project 2025 document, published April 21, 2023 (from 2020s)
Image 61French actor and singer Etienne Daho wearing Americana-inspired black leather blouson and red western shirt in 2023. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 62A 2020s laptop gaming PC manufactured by MSI (from 2020s in video games)
Image 63Goblincore sweater (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 64An earthquake-damaged buildings in Mandalay, Myanmar in March 2025. (from 2020s)
Image 65Elderly man dressed up in Stockholm in 2023 (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 66An earthquake-damaged buildings in Mandalay, Myanmar in March 2025. (from 2020s)
Image 67PlayStation 5 (2020) (from 2020s in video games)
Image 68Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson and Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin were two female prime ministers in Scandinavia who guided their countries' ascensions into NATO. (from 2020s)
Image 69Aftermath of the earthquake at Wajima morning market in January 2024. (from 2020s)
Image 70Shinzo Abe (from 2020s)
Image 71Donald Trump (from 2020s)
Image 72Highrise residential building ″Palestine Tower″ in Gaza following an Israeli strike during the Gaza war. (from 2020s)
Image 73Dominican Republican–Spanish actor Jean Cruz [es] wearing an early 1980s-inspired outfit in 2021 (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 74Indian actress Ananya Panday wearing long green sequin dress, 2024 (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 75Syrian rebels at Hama Air Base during the Syrian civil war. (from 2020s)
Image 76Asus ROG Ally (2023) (from 2020s in video games)
Image 77Cardigan and flannel coats worn by Taylor Swift, representative of the cottagecore subtrend. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 78Aftermath of the Spanish floods at Sedaví, Horta Sud in October 2024. (from 2020s)
Image 79Confirmed deaths per 100,000 population as of 20 December 2023 (from 2020s in politics)
Image 802021: Black American woman with a kidcore-inspired outfit and brightly dyed hair in 2021. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 81Syrian rebels at Hama Air Base during the Syrian civil war. (from 2020s)
Image 82 Taiwanese teen girl in Hanfu, 2024. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 83Haim and Taylor Swift in glamorous, industrial-inspired all-black outfits in a 2022 concert. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 84The Imi N'Tala village was heavily destroyed by the Marrakesh-Safi earthquake in September 2023. (from 2020s)
Image 85Ismail Haniyeh (from 2020s)
Image 86Machine Gun Kelly performing (from 2020s in music)
Image 87Shinzo Abe (from 2020s)
Image 88Project 2025 document, published April 21, 2023 (from 2020s)
Image 89Kacey Musgraves performing at the Pilgrimage Music Festival (from 2020s in music)
Image 90Clothes for sale in 2021. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 91Indonesian girls wearing face masks in 2022. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 92Yahya Sinwar (from 2020s)
Image 93An earthquake-damaged building in Antakya, Turkey in February 2023 (from 2020s)
Image 94Ayman al-Zawahiri (from 2020s)
Image 95Roku is one of the most popularly known streaming devices (from 2020s)
Image 96Montage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, part of the Russo-Ukrainian War. (from 2020s)
Image 97US Marines with SP-MAGTF-CR-CC at an evacuation checkpoint at Kabul Airport on 21 August during the 2021 Fall of Kabul, at the end of the War in Afghanistan. (from 2020s)
Image 98Balletcore inspired skirt worn with boho-chic sweater and retro sneakers, 2023 (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 99Highrise residential building ″Palestine Tower″ in Gaza following an Israeli strike during the Gaza war. (from 2020s)
Image 100Japanese man with curtained hair. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 101Steam Deck (2022) (from 2020s in video games)
Image 102Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson and Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin were two female prime ministers in Scandinavia who guided their countries' ascensions into NATO. (from 2020s)
Image 103The highest-grossing film of the decade so far is James Cameron's Avatar: The Way of Water. (from 2020s)
Image 104Yahya Sinwar (from 2020s)
Image 1052021: Natalie Biden wearing a matching cloth COVID-19 mask at the inauguration of Joe Biden, her grandfather (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 106Montage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, part of the Russo-Ukrainian War. (from 2020s)
Image 107British rapper Stormzy wearing all-black outfit in 2022. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 108The AI boom emerged in the 2020s. Generative AI such as Text-to-image models and AI chatbots released publicly. Machine learning systems that took minute(s) to produce blurry images in mid 2022 were able to produce more realistic imagery in seconds by mid 2023. English text would appear as gibberish in earlier AI text-to-image builds, although this was fixed to an extent with newer AI models such as DALL-E 3. (from 2020s)

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Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman (/zɛnˈdeɪ.ə/ ^ⓘ zen-DAY-ə; born September 1, 1996) is an American actress and singer. Her accolades include two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. In 2022, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Born and raised in Oakland, California, Zendaya began her career as a child model and backup dancer. She made her television debut as Rocky Blue in the Disney Channel sitcom Shake It Up (2010–2013) and starred as the titular character in the channel's sitcom K.C. Undercover (2015–2018). Her feature film debut came in 2017 as MJ in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Spider-Man: Homecoming; she later reprised her role in its sequels Far from Home (2019) and No Way Home (2021). Zendaya's role as Rue Bennett, a struggling drug-addicted teenager, in the HBO teen drama series Euphoria (2019–present) made her the youngest recipient of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, which she won twice. Her other film roles include the musical The Greatest Showman (2017), the romantic dramas Malcolm & Marie (2021) and Challengers (2024), and the science fiction films Dune (2021) and Dune: Part Two (2024). (Full article...)

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