New Year's Eve

French authorities said this New Year’s Eve was a “calm” night in which only 745 vehicles were set on fire and nearly 400 arrests.

Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams says that 2024 is going to be “surprising on the upside,” rather than the grim year many observers expect.

Palestinian terrorists rang in the New Year on Sunday evening by firing a large barrage of rockets at Israeli cities at midnight, in a statement of defiance against the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) advance deep into the Gaza Strip.

France will mobilise nearly 100,000 police officers, gendarmes and soldiers to Paris on New Year’s Eve amid a “very high terrorist threat”.

Tagesschau under fire for coverage allegeldly trying to “cover up” the large proportion of migrants involved in the NYE violence.

Following violent incidents in Germany on New Year’s Eve, police and firefighters have noted a number of immigrants involved in the violence.

Manjunath Olekar, a 67-year-old resident of Shivamogga, India, accidentally shot one of his party guests with a burst of celebratory gunfire and then died of a heart attack on New Year’s Eve.

French Minister Gerald Darmanin has touted the fact that only 690 vehicles were set on fire over New Year’s this year. 

Chinese state media over the weekend highlighted huge New Year’s Eve celebrations across the country, with one of the biggest at Shougang Park in the capital of Beijing – even though China claims to be experiencing a ravaging national outbreak of the Wuhan coronavirus.

Chinese dictator Xi Jinping urged his subjects to seek “unity” with each other even while holding “different views on the same issue” in his New Year’s Eve address this weekend, an apparent acknowledgment of growing anti-communist sentiment after a year of historic protests in his country.

The Freedom City Mall in Uganda’s capital city of Kampala hosted a New Year’s Eve party that went horribly wrong on Saturday night, as a stampede broke out after the fireworks display and killed at least nine people, including several children.

BERLIN – The German government on Monday condemned incidents on New Year’s Eve in which police officers and firefighters were attacked, mostly with fireworks.

A suspect with possible Islamic extremism ties is in custody after three police officers were injured in a machete attack near Times Square on New Year’s Eve.

Sadiq Khan used the fireworks for New Year’s Eve to push the woke agenda, with the display featuring the rainbow colours of the LGBT movement.

Half of younger adults — those 18 to 25 — are choosing to improve their mental health as a top New Year’s resolution, a December Forbes Health/OnePoll survey found.

CNN President Chris Licht will reportedly not allow employees to drink during the network’s broadcast of New Year’s Eve.

The Coast Guard recognized a heroic man for jumping into the Houston Ship Channel and rescuing a motorist from a sinking car on New Year’s Eve.

The Minister denied migration had a role during the Milan News Year’s Eve attacks, despite the migration-heritage background of the suspects.

Two North African youths, one born to parents from Morocco and another who came to Italy from Egypt, have been arrested.

Police raided 18 migrant-background youths over attacks that have been met with comparisons to the infamous Cologne attacks of 2015.

Authorities in Texas say a man saved a 63-year-old male motorist from drowning after his vehicle drove off of a ferry dock and plunged into a body of water. The incident occurred in the early evening of December 31 at

China’s Global Times government newspaper condemned Americans in an article on Monday for “shouting, kissing, and dancing” on New Year’s Eve while much of China was under brutal coronavirus lockdowns – necessitated by the Communist Party’s poor handling of the pandemic.

A Long Island teacher charged with illegally administering a vaccine to a 17-year-old boy at her home has been reassigned from the classroom.

A stampede at a Hindu temple in northern India’s Jammu and Kashmir territory on New Year’s Eve — allegedly sparked by “a fight between two groups of pilgrims” — killed 12 people and injured 16 others, India’s New Delhi Television (NDTV) reported on Monday.

The Indian state of Goa announced on Monday it will shut down schools through the end of the month and implement a curfew in response to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic – just days after video showed throngs of thousands of tourists enjoying the state’s beaches.

Country music star Jason Aldean rang in the New Year with former President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, stating, “This man is unbelievable,” and referred to Trump as “the G.O.A.T.”

Authorities say 874 cars were burned and 441 people were arrested on New Year’s Eve, a time traditionally associated with violence in France.

“Watch What Happens” Live host Andy Cohen slammed former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio during CNN’s New Year’s Eve Live coverage on Friday night, proclaiming, “The only thing that Democrats and Republicans can agree on is what a horrible mayor he has been.”

Protesters partied in central Vienna on Friday evening in defiance of Austria’s various lockdown restrictions.

The Chinese government canceled New Year’s Eve celebrations across the country in the face of a coronavirus wave — a sharp contrast from last year’s triumphalist celebrations in Wuhan, ground zero of the pandemic.

New York City is only allowing a limited number of spectators to watch the ball drop in Times Square this New Year’s Eve.

The year 2021 has ended with terrible news headlines for the Biden administration after months of failed governance.

The traditional fireworks display over the Thames was cancelled for a second year, but with hours to go a secret display has been revealed.

Greece’s health minister said Wednesday that music will be banned at all commercial venues for New Year’s celebrations.

Regional border areas in England to brace for influx of ‘Covid refugees’ from more heavily regulated Scotland and Wales this New Year.

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci said Monday on CNN’s “New Day” that considering the highly contagious Omicron variant of coronavirus was rapidly spreading, people should “stay away” from larger New Year’s Eve parties this year.