People around the globe rang in the new year with festivities and fireworks, reflecting on a year marked by both triumphs and challenges, including climate disasters, political upheaval, and economic uncertainty.
Revellers across the world ushered in 2025 on Tuesday, with huge crowds waving goodbye to the old year that brought Olympic glory, a dramatic Donald Trump return and turmoil in the Middle East and Ukraine. It is all but certain that 2024 will go down as the hottest year on record, with climate-fuelled disasters wreaking havoc from the plains of Europe to the Kathmandu Valley. A tide of humanity washed onto Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach, where authorities expected 2.
5 million people to attend the city’s fireworks display and dance to the sounds of Anitta and other great Brazilian performers. “It’s been a rather complicated year, but at the same time you always have to look at the positive side of things,“ said Florence Coret in Paris, where more than a million visitors flocked.Thousands of people lined the banks of London’s River Thames for a firework extravaganza, though bad weather saw events cancelled in other cities, including Edinburgh’s Hogmanay street party. Pro-European Georgians rang in the New Year by setting off fireworks at month-long rallies against a ruling party they accuse of being under Russia’s influence. And Serbian students marched in Belgrade and two other cities demanding accountability over the fatal collapse of a train station roof in November that killed 15 people. A spectacular pyrotechnics display lit up Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour as Asia joined in popping champagne corks and launching New Year’s Eve parties. Thousands thronged the streets of Taipei to watch Taiwan’s tallest skyscraper erupt in a dazzling display of fireworks. Sydney, the self-proclaimed “New Year’s capital of the world”, sprayed nine tonnes of fireworks from its famed Opera House and Harbour Bridge to begin the year’s farewel
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