Countries around the world have delighted millions of people with spectacular fireworks displays and light shows as they celebrated bringing in the New Year.
Former England football boss Gareth Southgate, London Mayor Sadiq Khan, Olympian Keely Hodgkinson and actor Stephen Fry are among the hundreds named in King Charles's New Year honours list.
Actors Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have reached a divorce settlement, bringing an end to one of Hollywood's most contentious and closely followed celebrity splits.
China says it has shared the most Covid-19 data and research results in the international community, after the World Health Organization repeated its call for more information and access.
A criminal case against actor Alec Baldwin stemming from a fatal shooting on the Rust movie set has ended, with a prosecutor dropping her appeal of the case's dismissal.
A South Korean court has approved an arrest warrant for President Yoon Suk Yeol, who has been impeached and suspended from power over his decision to impose martial law.
South Korea's acting President has ordered an emergency safety inspection of the country's entire airline operation after the deadliest air disaster on the country's soil.
Edinburgh's New Year "Hogmanay" celebrations, where revellers gather in the Scottish capital for street parties and fireworks, have been cancelled due to bad weather
A video of a former cabinet minister in Fiji dancing naked was hacked by someone in government close to the Prime Minister, a veteran political activist claims.
Former US President Jimmy Carter, who struggled with the Iran hostage crisis but brokered peace between Israel and Egypt and later received the Nobel Peace Prize, has died. He was 100.
Russia's President has apologised to Azerbaijan's leader for what the Kremlin called a "tragic incident" over Russia in which an Azerbaijan Airlines plane crashed after Russian air defences were fired against Ukrainian drones.
Elon Musk has vowed to go to "war" to defend a visa program for foreign tech workers amid a dispute between Donald Trump's longtime supporters and his recently acquired backers from the tech industry.
Israeli forces have raided one of three medical facilities on the northern edge of Gaza, ordering dozens of patients and hundreds of others to evacuate and leaving part of the site on fire.
Most of the 181 people aboard were presumably killed when an airliner veered off the runway and erupted into a fireball as it slammed into a wall at South Korea's Muan International Airport.