As Americans prepared to celebrate New Year's Eve on Tuesday, millions of people around the world were ringing in 2025. The big picture: Countries in the Asia-Pacific region were the first to see New ...

As the clock ticks down to midnight on New Year's Eve, celebrations unfold worldwide with a medley of cultural traditions, and perhaps nowhere is this more apparent than in the diverse array of ...

The world has been saying goodbye to 2024 and ... welcoming the sun 2025, a New Year's Eve celebration in Bali, Indonesia. [SONNY TUMBELAKA/AFP] A "family fireworks" display lit up the Opera ...

As the liturgical season of Advent comes to a close, here are three different ways people around the world celebrate the ... consist of a special pre-dawn celebration. "During the holidays ...

Women wearing '2025' head bands attend the New Year's Eve celebrations in Jakarta, Indonesia, Dec. 31, 2024. The world's tallest building, Burj Khalifa, was lit up for New Year's Eve in Dubai as ...

The celebrations heralded the end of a tumultuous year during which more than half of the world’s population went to the polls, shaping the future of democracies in more than 30 countries.

After midnight, participants rang a bell at Seoul's Bosingak pavilion. South Korea's New Year celebrations were subdued following the deadly December 29 Jeju Air crash, and the bell-ringing ...

Dec. 31 (UPI) --New Year's Eve celebrations and fireworks around the world rang in 2025, as more than a million revelers crowded into New York City's Times Square for performances and the traditional ...

2 Participants hit a huge bell to welcome the 2025 New Year's Day, during celebrations post midnight at the Bosingak pavilion in central Seoul, South Korea, Jan. 1, 2025. 3 A projection mapping is ...

Dec. 31 (UPI) --New Year's Eve celebrations and fireworks around the world rang in 2025, as more than a million revelers crowded into New York City's Times Square for performances and the ...