New Year's Eve party

The Blue Bird bar in downtown Athens invites you to dig deep into the back of your closet to find the most unsexy sweater you possess and wear it with pride as you celebrate the end of 2019 with a laugh. The bar will be holding a competition for the ugliest sweater during its New Year's Eve party, which gets off to an early start at 4 p.m. on Tuesday. Holiday-themed sweaters are encouraged.

Injecting a somber note into the festivities, the New York City's Times Square Alliance, the business association that organizes the famous New Year's Eve party, paid a special tribute to freedom of the press, after a year in which journalists came under attack around the world.

Venue: Monsun
Address: Travnicka 3
Price: ?7-11
Contact: 065 4755115

A married man in southern Turkey, who is accused of sexually abusing a series of victims including a 16-year-old girl and a 22-year-old man, has claimed that he was trying to heal his son's vitiligo, a chronic skin disease.