New Year's Eve

The city of Belgrade has so many activities as part of its "Belgrade Winter" program, the party doesn't have to end when New Year's Eve has come and gone. Starting December 1 and running until January 31 Belgrade city authorities promise a winter program "as never before".

Australian police have detained a man suspected of plotting a mass shooting on New Year's Eve in Melbourne, Victoria state, police said on Nov. 28.

Programme Highlights

• Christmas Lights Switch (24 November 2017)
• The Fairy City: concerts, street theatre, puppet theatre, children's movies
• Festive Fairs: Christmas Market (24 November - 31 December 2017)
• City Ice Rink
• Open-air concerts and parties (24 November - 31 December 2017)
• New Year's Eve Grand Celebration

Half a million Bulgarians will travel for Christmas and New Year. Most people will travel for the New Year's Day, bTV reports.

Three days of vacation around those holiday in Bulgaria average about 300 leva per person. If the trip is abroad, the amount jumps nearly twice.

Expectations are that 120,000 Bulgarians will welcome New Year's Eve outside the country.

They were so fixated on how a Muslim should not celebrate Christmas.

Any outside observer would think that full-bearded old Muslim men were wandering around laughing "ho ho ho" on New Year's and were coming out of mosques in Santa Claus costumes, trying to cheer everybody up...

Members of Turkey Democracy Platform have released a press statement and laid carnations outside Istanbul's Reina nightclub, where a gunman killed at least 39 New Year's Eve revelers in the early hours of Jan. 1.  

Look, the guy and the girl on the street, my brother and my sister, the politician in Ankara, take a look. 

Do you know who those brothers and sisters who were massacred in the early hours of Jan. 1 morning in Istanbul's Reina are? 

Let me explain it to you…

Additional police forces will be deployed to railway and bus stations and airports, as well as the winter resorts across the country and public venues where celebrations are being held, Bulgaria's outgoing Interior Minister has said,

Luggage and identity documents will be carefully examined in these areas, Focus News Agency quotes Bacharova as saying after a security meeting.

New Year's Eve celebrations in Belgrade are set to be the biggest and best yet, the city's mayor has promised. From December 30 to 31 some of the region's most famous musicians will perform outside the parliament building in Serbia's capital to welcome in 2017.

I have hated everything about New Year's all my life: cheap street decorations, things no one would try to pass off as gifts at any other time of the year, restaurants where food is bad and the music is worse, television channels with loud and gaudy programs and connections to main squares in New York, Paris and London, street parties where there are just too many people, friends' house parties