Dec. 31 (UPI) --New Year's Eve celebrations and fireworks around the world are ringing in 2025, as New York City's Times Square gears up for the traditional ball drop at midnight before an estimated one million revelers. New Zealand was one of the first to ...

Dancers performed the dance of releasing the sun 2024, welcoming the sun 2025, a New Year's Eve celebration in Bali, Indonesia A "family fireworks" display lit up the Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge, three hours before midnight.

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 Year's Day.

Countries in Asia and Africa rang in 2025 with food, fireworks and celebrations as the clock struck midnight on Wednesday (January 1) morning.

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 displayed on the surface of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building,

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. The Micronesian nation was soon followed into 2025 by the Chatham Islands in New Zealand at 5:15 a.