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Some of the most impressive New Year's Eve fireworks displays can be found in Sydney, Las Vegas, Dubai and Rio.

Opposition groups alleged continuous violations of the agreement by government forces, adding that these violations would render the day-old deal “null and void.”

Scheduled to start on Feb. 24, the concept will allow employees to finish work early on the last Friday of every month to get some time for themselves.

The royal family collectively carry out 2,000 official engagements throughout the U.K. and worldwide.

Not every country in the world celebrates the new year with booze and fireworks.

Many Orthodox Christians, Greek Catholics and Coptic Christians abstain from consuming meat and alcohol in the 40 days leading up to Christmas, which they celebrate on Jan. 7.

While the West will be celebrating the New Year this weekend, in China the main celebration is still weeks away.

Troops mistreated and detained a 7-year-old Palestinian boy from Kafr Qadum in the West Bank region, Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem said.

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Using a common blood cancer treatment a slightly different way could prove to be aresearch breakthrough for cancer researchers.

Islamist rebel group Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, formerly known as the Al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front, announced Friday that it never agreed to a ceasefire deal with the Syrian government or international powers.

Whenever it happens, Britain will not be caught off guard by the death of Queen Elizabeth II.

Open this generator and reflect on your killer pictures from the past year.

Tensions between India and Pakistan have escalated dramatically in recent months.

Saddam Hussein ruled the country for nearly 25 years before being overthrown by U.S. occupying forces. Now, Iraq is fighting a different battle.

Russian President Vladimir Putin chose not to retaliate against new sanctions imposed by President Barack Obama, based on the prospect of improved Russian-American trade relations next year.

Christians are the most persecuted religious group in the world, according to a new study.

Buckingham Palace was forced to deny allegations the queen was dead on Friday morning.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights had reported clashes between rebels and government troops, potentially jeopardizing a year-end peace deal.

As false reports regarding the queen’s death circulate on the internet, the British monarchy’s future has been the object of debate this week.

The presence of rings in the disk around the 15-million-year old star, named HIP73145, suggests that there may be protoplanets orbiting the young star.  

The source of intense bursts of microwaves is a galaxy named IRAS 16399-0937, located roughly 370 million light-years from Earth.

President Vladimir Putin said that no American diplomats would be expelled in retaliation to Washington's move, and instead wished the American people a happy new year.

On Thursday, a team of experts at NASA's Langley Research Center finalized the design for an “Ice Home” — one of the many concepts for sustainable human habitats on Mars.

The Swedish Armed Forces has recommended up to $9 billion a year in defense spending over the next five years amid a looming threat from Russia in the Baltic region.

One of the objects is a comet that may become visible through a pair of binoculars next year, while the other seems to straddle the line between a comet and an asteroid.

Researchers announced that they had discovered CRISPR-Cas9-blocking proteins, which have the potential to improve the safety and accuracy of the gene-editing tool.

FSB agents arrested seven alleged terrorists in Dagestan, accusing them of plotting a series of New Year's attacks in Moscow.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is entering his sixth year in power, defying threats internal and external, but his harsh tactics continue to garner international criticism.