New Year's Eve

New Year's Celebrations Kick Off Across The Globe

3:41pm December 31, 2017

by Samantha Raphelson

People in major cities around the world marked the end of 2017 with fireworks displays and other celebrations. Samoa, Christmas Island and New Zealand were among the first to celebrate 2018.

Crowds will gather again for New Year's Eve celebrations in New York's Times Square, but Twitter has other suggestions for midnight entertainment.

National

Twitter Wants To Help You Welcome 2018 With One Climactic Musical Moment

8:12am December 31, 2017

A viral tweet from Phil Collins suggests people cue up his song "In the Air Tonight" so the iconic drum fill rings out at midnight. The Twitterverse offered up plenty of other musical suggestions.

Moe stands behind her tiny bar in Shanghai, where there are only eight seats and reservations are a must.

In A Massive City, This Bar Serves Up Diverse Drinks — To 8 People At A Time

7:07pm December 29, 2016

by Rob Schmitz

Bar Moju in Shanghai is tiny and only serves authentic concoctions created by its owner, Moe. To visit, you must make a reservation.

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People celebrate New Year's in Madrid's Puerta del Sol square, on Jan. 1, 2011. Traditionally, the drinking doesn't begin until after midnight, when people eat 12 grapes for good luck.

In Spain, New Year's Eve Is All About The Grapes — Save The Bubbly For Later

7:18pm December 27, 2016

by Lauren Frayer

As the clock strikes midnight, people in Spain gobble 12 grapes in quick succession, with wishes for the new year. Then, they go out to party all night long with cava, a Spanish sparkling white wine.

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WATCH LIVE: New Year's Eve Celebrations in Times Square

10:53pm December 31, 2015

by Merrit Kennedy

Here's a lives tream of New Year's Eve revelers counting down the end of 2015 in New York's Times Square.

On Jan. 1, people gathered at a makeshift memorial marking the site of a New Year's Eve stampede on the Bund in Shanghai, China. Three dozen people died, and dozens more were injured.

World News

Shanghai Fires 4 Officials Over Fatal New Year's Eve Stampede

2:57am January 22, 2015

by Frank Langfitt

Investigators said the officials were off enjoying a banquet at an opulent Japanese restaurant during the stampede along the city's waterfront that killed three dozen people and injured 49 others.