When the ball drops in New York City’s Times Square to herald the start of 2025, it’ll actually be late to the party as dozens of countries around the world will already have welcomed the new ...

Here, we round up some of the ways the New Year is called in around the world. Gregorian New Year. 1 January 2025 New Year’s Day marks the first day of the Gregorian calendar, something we’ve ...

How to watch New Year's Eve celebrations around the world. Whether you have kids (or adults) who need to be in bed before midnight, or you're sick of watching the ball drop in Times Square, ...

U.S. cities joined millions of people around the world in New Year's celebrations ringing in 2025 on Wednesday. The big picture: Countries in the Asia-Pacific region were the first to mark New ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — From Sydney to Mumbai to Nairobi, communities around the world began welcoming 2025 with spectacular light shows, embraces and ice plunges. Auckland became the ...

Happy 2025! In some parts of the world, anyway. The Pacific island nation of Kiribati was the first country to ring in 2025, with its 133,500 citizens celebrating the new year at 5 a.m. ET on Tuesday.

1. United States: Watching the ball drop. Let's begin our list of New Year's Eve traditions with the one you've likely already participated in: Millions of Americans gather around their television ...

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 ...

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 midnight ...

From the Middle East to Russia to China, what Council of Foreign Relations experts see for the year ahead. New Year’s Predictions: the World in '25 This year saw no shortage of tectonic ...

In plazas and parks and bars and homes across the globe, people gathered to commemorate the end of 2024 and welcome the New Year. Bold swimmers plunged into a frigid lake in Switzerland, joggers ...