Australian officials are pushing ahead with Sydney's New Year's Eve fireworks display despite more than a quarter of a million people signing a petition calling for the event to be scrapped. The ...

Countries around the world are welcoming 2026 with millions of people Down Under celebrating the new year. In New Zealand’s biggest city, Auckland, fireworks went off as the clock struck midnight at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fireworks are seen over Sydney Harbour during the New Year's Eve midnight display, at Mrs Macquaries Point in Sydney. Dan ...

Drone light shows are gaining traction worldwide as cities seek environmentally friendly alternatives to traditional fireworks. Now Sydney is breaking with a longstanding pyrotechnics tradition to ...

Thousands of revellers gathered at Sydney’s popular spots to bid farewell to 2025 and watch the display of fireworks, even as Australia remains on edge in the wake ...

A petition to cancel Sydney's famous New Year's Eve fireworks and use the money to fight bushfires ringing the city has topped 260,000 signatures, but officials say the show will go on. Sydney is ...

Sydney’s celebration will include tributes to 15 victims of the Bondi attack, a minute of silence at 11 p.m., and a call for more than one million viewers to shine their phone lights in solidarity.

Crowds counted down the clock at the Sydney Harbour Bridge in New South Wales as the city rang in the New Year. BBC News reported that “peace” and “unity” lit up the Sydney Harbour Bridge as a large ...

Sydney welcomed the start of 2026 with the city's biggest ever fireworks display, which featured a waterfall effect falling from the top of the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge. The display covered the ...

The midnight fireworks were watched around the world as one of the first major events to mark 2026. Organisers the City of Sydney council said the show was choreographed to “bespoke soundtracks,” ...