There are many unique ways that cultures worldwide celebrate New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. If you have noticed your social media feed becoming flooded with people talking about the 12 grapes ...

A New Year's Eve tradition historically practiced in Spain and across Latin America has become a trend on social media, and entails eating 12 grapes under a table at the stroke of midnight.

Across the globe, denizens are gearing up to celebrate the arrival of 2025. In some parts of the world, a new year also means drawing on old practices to symbolically usher in wealth and good luck.

Uvas de la suerte, or the 12 lucky grapes, may have started in the 1880s, when Madrid's "bourgeoisie" put their own spin on the "French custom of drinking Champagne and eating grapes on New Year's ...