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 ...

Fireworks over the Sky Tower in Auckland ... 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 ...

Chinese factories shut down for the holiday and then some, with hundreds of millions of migrant workers heading to their hometowns, part of the world's largest mass movement of people. In the lead ...

Hongkongers will ring in 2024 with a bang, with tourism authorities announcing that the city’s traditional New Year countdown fireworks display ... mounted on buildings around Victoria Park.

Pixel Artworks added a new twist to one of the UK’s most prestigious events of the year, the London New Year’s Eve Fireworks, ...

Violence broke out in several parts of Germany during the New Year celebrations. In Leipzig, rioters set fire to rubbish bins, built barricades, and around 50 individuals hurled fireworks and ...

City Council unanimously passed a new firework usage ordinance at its meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 18, limiting the time frame individuals can use fireworks. Under the new ordinance, fireworks usage ...

BEIJING--Lunar New ... Year. The holiday — known as the Spring Festival in China, Tet in Vietnam and Seollal in Korea — is a major festival celebrated by diaspora communities around the world.