BYE-BYE, 2024!
NEW YORK CITY (AP)-- From Sydney to Mumbai to Paris to Rio de Janeiro, neighborhoods all over the world invited 2025 with incredible light programs, welcomes and ice plunges.The New Year's Eve ball dropped in soaked Times Square, where countless revelers stuck it out in heavy rain to commemorate the start of 2025 in New York City.Nations in the South Pacific Ocean were the very first to call in the New Year, with midnight in New Zealand striking 18 hours before the ball dropped in Times Square. Auckland was the very first significant city to commemorate, with thousands thronging downtown or climbing up the city's ring of volcanic peaks for a fireworks perspective. Dispute soft recognitions of the start of 2025 in locations like the Middle East, Sudan and Ukraine.American Samoa will be amon...