The Year in Pictures 2000

January
There was no point in explaining that the millennium doesn't start till 2001; the whole world was primed for a huge party, and spared no expense in carrying it out. Probably the most spectacular display was that which unfolded in Paris, where the Eiffel Tower became as vivid a beacon of the 2000s as it been for the 1900s.

• Person of the Year 2000: George W. Bush