New Year's Eve worldwide: Mega fireworks and exciting celebrations in 2025!

New Year's Eve worldwide: Mega fireworks and exciting celebrations in 2025!

Sydney, Australien - On December 31, 2024, the KiritimatiToll, also known as Christmas island, welcomed the new year 2025 in Kiribati worldwide. The approximately 7,300 inhabitants celebrated the turn of the year at 11:00 a.m. CET. The Chatham Islands in New Zealand followed fifteen minutes later, followed by New Zealand, Samoa and Tonga, which started the new year for an hour to Kiritimati. An impressive light show with 500 kilograms of pyrotechnics took place in Auckland at the Sky Tower.

in Sydney, Australia, the famous fireworks began at 2 p.m., despite initial concerns about a possible strike in local public transport. However, these concerns were cleared by an agreement. A smaller fireworks for families were ignited at 9 p.m. local time, while the big highlight should follow at midnight with around nine tons of pyrotechnics. Fireworks are used at 264 different points, which represents an extension compared to previous years. For the first time, shooting locations west of the Harbor Bridge are also used. Innovative technology should be used to present special patterns and shapes in fireworks. About a million onlookers were expected in Sydney, many have been looking for the best places since morning. Overall, the fireworks in Sydney with 13,500 fireworks and a total weight of eight tons were carried out, with AI-generated light projections used for the first time, such as pz-news.de reported.

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Other important celebrations took place around the globe. In Bangkok, Thailand, numerous people celebrated on party boats, while the country started 2567 at 6 p.m. CET. Large fireworks on Marina Bay was expected in Singapore, while a light show took place at the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur. In the meantime, American-Samoa will be heralded the year 2025, twelve hours to Germany, such as mdr.de.

tens of thousands of celebration at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, and the fireworks display took place for the first time since the pandemic. The New Year's Eve was without major riots, even if there was a larger police operation near Alexanderplatz. In total, at least 15 police officers injured and there were over 300 preliminary arrests. In Italy, a 45-year-old woman in Afragola was killed by a shot, and 274 people suffered injuries that made a hospital stay necessary. There were fewer arrests in France than in the previous year, and the Interior Minister spoke of a "quiet night".