Photos: World begins 2025 with fireworks and light shows
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — From Sydney to Vladivostok, communities around the world have begun welcoming 2025 with spectacular light shows, embraces and ice plunges.
New Zealand’s Auckland is the first major city to welcome 2025 with fireworks and light show
Auckland has become the first major city to welcome 2025, with thousands counting down to the new year and cheering at fireworks launched from New Zealand’s tallest structure, Sky Tower.
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World welcomes 2025 with fireworks and light shows
Countries across east and south-east Asia including China, the Philippines and Malaysia have welcomed in the new year with firework displays and drone shows Celebrations have been scaled back or cancelled in South Korea following the Muan air crash on Sunday in which 179 people died Sydney saw in 2025 with a spectacular fireworks display - cheers erupted as the clock struck midnight and the skies lit up over the harbour Coming up: India's 1.
The world begins welcoming 2025 with light shows, embraces and ice plunges
From Sydney to Vladivostok, communities around the world have begun welcoming 2025 with spectacular light shows, embraces and ice plunges
Fireworks and light shows planned as Pacific first to welcome 2025
The Pacific will be the first in the world to welcome in the new year, with fireworks shows and outdoor gatherings planned. As the first major international centre to welcome in the New Year, the landmarks of New Zealand's largest city Auckland will light up at midnight (1100 GMT Tuesday).
Australia, New Zealand first to welcome 2025 with fireworks
Thousands also thronged to downtown or climbed the city’s ring of volcanic peaks for a fireworks vantage point, and a light display recognizing Auckland’s Indigenous tribes. It follows a year marked by protests over Māori rights in the nation of 5 million.
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