New Year's

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

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

Less than half of Americans are making New Year’s resolutions, a Rasmussen Reports survey released Thursday found.

New post-Christmas restrictions aiming to curb the spread of COVID-19 came into force in three out of four of Britain’s Home Nations on Boxing Day.

Government ministers are to meet as early as Monday in order to discuss implementing new lockdown in England in response to omicron.

New Year’s Eve is in jeopardy across the UK, as the government reportedly considers forcing England into a two-week ‘circuit breaker’ lockdown. New Year’s Eve celebrations are in jeopardy in the United Kingdom, with the government reportedly looking at imposing

Florida state Rep. Omari Hardy (D) is calling on Palm Beach County officials to shut down  President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort due to alleged mask mandate violations.

President-elect Joe Biden and his wife made an appearance on ABC’s Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve on Thursday, and Jill suffered a prop malfunction.

Governments worldwide have imposed limitations on the number of people allowed to gather in private and public to celebrate New Year’s Eve on December 31 amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) urged residents on Monday to refrain from ringing in the new year with individuals outside of their household, pressing New Jerseyans to reduce celebrations and strictly adhere to coronavirus protocols, including masking up and practicing social distancing.

Hong Kong canceled its annual New Year’s fireworks display for 2021 on Friday in an attempt to contain the region’s recent outbreak of the Chinese coronavirus.

Hundreds of cars were set on fire across French cities on New Year’s Eve, with some cities seeing an even larger number of cars burned than the previous year.

First Lady Melania Trump brought the fireworks as she entered the annual New Year’s Eve celebration at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, on Tuesday evening. 

A number of violent attacks took place at  New Year’s Eve parties across the UK, including a shooting, stabbings, and a sword attack.

The committee in charge of putting on the iconic ball drop in New York City’s Times Square this New Year’s Eve dedicated this year’s celebration to “press freedom.”

Chinese communist leader Xi Jinping assured listeners in his New Year’s Eve speech that “China has something to say” on international issues in 2018, promising that under his regime, Beijing will be a “keeper of international order.”

New Year’s Eve was met with celebrations in the streets of Mosul and a fireworks display, the first such revelry since the Islamic State captured the city four years ago.

Turkey detained nearly 200 people over suspected links to Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists over a two-day period as part of enhanced counterterrorism efforts ahead of New Year celebrations.

Viktor Orbán has used his annual Christmas message to call on Europeans to protect their Christian culture, and vowed Hungary will not “retreat behind concrete blocks” at Christmas and watch its women and daughters “harassed in the New Year’s Eve crowd”, like its multicultural neighbours.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has tasked a number of his cabinet officials with traveling to Washington to meet their counterparts in the Trump administration in anticipation of a one-on-one meeting between the two leaders.

French authorities have been accused of a cover-up after claiming New Year’s Eve “went off without any major incident” despite more than 1,000 cars being torched in arson attacks.

The Philippines recorded a 60 percent drop in the number of firecracker-related injuries this New Year’s Eve, good news the nation’s health secretary attributes to fears of attracting police attention following President Rodrigo Duterte’s repeated claims he will pardon police who kill suspects on the job.

For the second time in San Diego, California, twins were born in separate years on New Year’s Eve 2016 and New Year’s day 2017.

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana – Beginning on New Year’s Eve through January 2 for the Sugar Bowl, Bourbon Street will be closed off to motorists in response to the deadly truck-involved Islamic terrorist attack in Berlin.

A 26-year-old man has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to provide material support to a terrorist organization in connection with an Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) inspired plot to carry out an attack on New Year’s Eve 2015 against civilians in Rochester, NY, using knives and machetes.

A musical act mocking Bruce Jenner in the annual New Year’s Day Mummers Parade in Philadelphia is drawing the ire of the city’s mayor, LGBT groups, and others.

Following a series of protests against the celebration of the new year this week, a radical Islamist party staged a “street play” in the Turkey, featuring a repentant Santa Claus converting to Islam and reciting the Muslim profession of faith, or Shahada.

TEL AVIV – Hamas police in Gaza have banned New Year’s parties in restaurants and hotels throughout the Strip.