People celebrate New Year's Eve around the world. Check out the global festivities as everyone say goodbye to the old and ring in 2023!

New Year’s celebrations around the world. Prev Next 10:15 a.m. ET Western Australia. 11 a.m. ET China, Philippines, Malaysia, parts of Indonesia, most of Mongolia ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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Thousands of anti-government protesters and citizens gather during the New Year's celebrations in Martyrs' Square in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2020.

New Year Celebrations around the World December 31, 2017 1:33 PM New Zealand, Australia, and surrounding Pacific Islands were among the first places to ring in 2018 with fireworks displays ...

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 ...

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.

There's so much hype around New Year's Eve each year that it can be hard for the holiday to live up to expectations. Whether you brave a crowded bar or head over to a friend's house, the pressure ...

The world said goodbye to 2021, a year that was hamstrung by the lingering COVID-19 pandemic, and welcomed 2022 with high hopes. Celebrations around some areas were scaled back because of the ...