Let's see some numbers that may remind you of the outgoing year of 2018. 85,000 children under the age of five starved to death amidst Yemen's civil war. Whale stranding in New Zealand left 145 dead. A Lion Air jet with 189 people on board crashed, no survivors found. In Indonesia, death toll from a tsunami hit 2,085 in September. 87 million Facebook users were hit with data leak. New Apple iPhone series launched with a starting price of 699 U.S. dollars. Shanghai stock market dropped below 2,500 points.