Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Crowds counted down the clock at the Sydney Harbour Bridge in New South Wales as the city rang in the New Year. BBC News reported ...

Countries around the world are welcoming 2026 with millions of people Down Under celebrating the new year. In New Zealand’s biggest city, Auckland, fireworks went off as the clock struck midnight at ...

Australian officials are pushing ahead with Sydney's New Year's Eve fireworks display despite more than a quarter of a million people signing a petition calling for the event to be scrapped. The ...

Australia has welcomed in 2026 with a spectacular fireworks display over Sydney Opera House, as well as a minute’s silence to remember the victims of the Bondi beach attack. The 40,000 fireworks ...

Sydney’s celebration will include tributes to 15 victims of the Bondi attack, a minute of silence at 11 p.m., and a call for more than one million viewers to shine their phone lights in solidarity.

NSW Premier Chris Minns urged the city on New Year’s Eve to show it is “not going to be cowed” by the December 14 tragedy after 15 innocent people lost their lives when Jewish festivities were ...

NEW YORK (AP) — From Sydney to Paris to New York City, crowds rang in the new year with exuberant celebrations filled with thunderous fireworks or light shows, while others took a more subdued ...