The Latest Breaking News from New Year

'It will showcase the sport of sailing to our city.'

The ancient knowledge systems which underpin the new year holiday in New Zealand can explain everything from the weather to the movement of fish

The national Falls Festival will not ring in the New Year in 2024 after organisers announced it would take a break.

Amy Fitzpatrick went missing on New Year’s Day in 2008 and authorities have struggled to make any leads since.

Awarded an MBE for services to business in the New Year’s honours list, Ben Francis kicked off his sportswear business in his parents Bromsgrove garage in 2012. Gymshark has long since outgrown its humble origins in an unfashionable town near Birmingham, with the business worth over £1 billion by the time Francis was at the…

Lalish (Iraq) (AFP) - One by one, members of Iraq's minority Yazidi community light oil lamps to mark their New Year at a sacred shrine, but for Omar Sinan the celebration cannot erase the atrocities of jihadist rule.

Yangon (AFP) - Myanmar's junta on Monday began releasing more than 3,000 prisoners to mark the Buddhist New Year, without specifying whether those jailed in its bloody crackdown on dissent would be freed.

Myanmar’s military government has granted amnesty to more than 3,000 prisoners to mark the traditional lunar New Year holiday, but it was not immediately clear if those released included the thousands of political detainees

Myanmar's junta released 3,113 prisoners, including 98 foreigners, to mark the country's traditional New Year on Monday, according to a statement from the military government published on pro-military Telegram channels.