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The seventh day of the Lunar New Year (February 4, 2025) is said to be when the Chinese mother goddess, Nuwa, created humanity. Thus, it’s called renri/jan jat (the people’s birthday).
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.
The countdown to 2025 is on, and there is no shortage of ways to celebrate! As 2024 comes to a close, it's time to plan who you'll ring in the new year with — and luckily, there are plenty of ...
The 2025 New Year Honours are appointments by King Charles III among the 15 Commonwealth realms to various orders and honours to recognise and reward good works by citizens of those countries. The New Year Honours are awarded as part of the New Year celebrations at the start of January and those for 2025 were announced on 30 December 2024.
It's almost time to ring in the new year! Every Dec. 31, roughly 1 million people gather in New York City to witness the ball — an 11,875-pound sphere illuminated by 32,256 LEDs — descend the ...
New Year's Eve celebration in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2004) Lunar New Year celebration with fireworks display at Victoria Harbor in Hong Kong 2012. The New Year is the time or day at which a new calendar year begins and the calendar's year count increments by one. Many cultures celebrate the event in some manner. [1]
NEW YORK -- An estimated 1 million people packed Times Square to watch the New Year's Eve 2025 ball drop Tuesday night. ... "I come for the first time here to see. That it was my dream for one ...
The Times Square Ball is a time ball located in New York City's Times Square.Located on the roof of One Times Square, the ball is a prominent part of a New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square commonly referred to as the ball drop, where the ball descends down a specially designed flagpole, beginning at 11:59:00 p.m. ET, and resting at midnight to signal the start of the new year.