The Latest Breaking News from New Year

Every year in France as elsewhere, people excitedly prepare well in advance for the Christmas and New Year’s festivities. As early as November, the avenues get all dressed up in tinsel and garlands of lights, and the streets are packed with holiday shoppers.

Little ones will get the whole New Year experience by being treated to their very own ‘midnight style’ countdown celebration

Prisons and juvenile detention centres throughout the country will be open for visits by relatives of the inmates over the New Year period, Justice Minister Somsak Thepsuthin said on Sunday.

Recycling bins are going to be important during the festive season so it's handy to know when they're going to get emptied. Glasgow City Council has changed collection dates over Christmas and the New Year.

Festive TV specials run right through until New Year so there is plenty to enjoy

Here is when you can visit Wallingon, Seaton Delaval Hall, Cragside and Gibside throughout Christmas and New Year and what they have on offer, from winter trails to live music and prosecco

The New Year’s Eve countdown on Khao San Road will be cancelled in light of the current “fragile” mood, but entertainment venues in the popular tourist hangout will be open as usual, a local business leader says.

How the Emmy-award winning actor celebrates, rests, and reflects.

Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Walid Bukhari visited several Christian figures on Friday and will meet several others on Saturday to extend congratulations on the occasion of Christmas and the New Year. Bukhari met on Friday Ignatius Joseph III Yonan, the Syriac Catholic Patriarch, at the patriarchal headquarters in Beirut. They…

As families across the country prepare to celebrate Christmas together, we remember those from the greater Glasgow area who are missing a loved one this festive season while facing entering the new year without them.

If I see one more “Dear (name). Merry Christmas and a happy New Year. From (name).” I will puke.