Crowds around the world gathered to ring in 2025 with fireworks displays and festivities, marking the end of a year marked by both triumph and turmoil.
At Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana Beach, 2.5 million people attended the city's fireworks display to welcome 2025. A vendor holds up his phone as people watch the traditional New Year ’s fireworks from the water at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Picture: Terccio Teixeira / AFP Revellers worldwide ushered in 2025 on Wednesday, 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.
2024 will certainly 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. As many as 2.5 million people attended the city’s fireworks display and danced to the sounds of Anitta and other Brazilian performers. “What’s better than starting the new year with strangers from all over the world?” said native New Yorker Norquan Tirick Goldson, one of tens of thousands of partygoers who braved freezing temperatures to cram into Times Square. Couples kissed, strangers hugged as the Times Square ball descended, and more than a ton of confetti fluttered from surrounding rooftops.More than a million people gathered in the centre of Paris to mark the end of what resident Florence Coret described as “a rather complicated year.”Thousands of people line the banks of the Thames River to watch the 2025 New Year fireworks as they light up the sky around the London Eye. Video: Nick McAvaney / AFPTV / AFP 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 collapse of a train station roof in November that killed 15 people. Sydney sprayed nine tonnes of fireworks from its famed Opera House and Harbour Bridge to begin the year’s farewel
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