New Year 2025: World waves goodbye to tumultuous 12 months

The traditions have been followed, the good luck measures taken and the corks popped as revelers across the globe welcomed 2025 in their own styles Wednesday morning.

The traditions have been followed, the good luck measures taken and the corks popped as revelers across the globe welcomed 2025 in their own styles Wednesday morning.

More than a million people were estimated to have poured into New York City's Times Square on Tuesday night for the iconic midnight ball drop, complete with a boosted police presence.

The ball made its 139-foot drop and then a medley of songs played, including "Auld Lang Syne," and Frank Sinatra's performance of "New York, New York." The plaza, bordered by high-rises and walls composed of digital billboards, was lit up like high noon as the official Times Square billboard that marks the calendar flashed "2025."

Accompanying the drop of the nearly 12,000-pound ball, which organizers said will be replaced for next year's event, was an estimated 3,000 pounds of confetti released from nearby rooftops, they said. Some were adorned with wishes for the new year sent to Times Square.

Shortly after the ball drop, the New York Police Department's office of Deputy Commissioner Public Information said no arrests had been made during public celebrations and no major incidents had been reported.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/new-year-2025-world-waves-goodbye-tumultuous-12-months-rcna185838

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