The Pacific island nation of Kiribati was the first country to ring in 2025, its 133,500 citizens celebrating the new year at ...

People shop at a store selling Christmas and New Year ornaments in Istanbul, Turkey December 30, 2024. REUTERS/Dilara Senkaya ...

Swimmers enter the water during the traditional New Year’s Dive in a lake near Vilnius, Lithuania, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025.

New Year's Eve celebrations and fireworks around the world rang in 2025, as more than a million revelers crowded into New ...