Usyk has since returned home to Ukraine, where he is a national hero, with Zelenskyy sharing an image on New Year's Eve where he lauded the heavyweight boxer's achievements.

More than a billion people are set to tune in to watch the Times Square ball drop tonight. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

TASS has prepared this factbox with background information on the history of Russia’s traditional New Year’s celebration ...

The year is ending with a pair of sharp messages between top advisers to Russian leader Vladimir Putin and President-elect ...

A few days before Christmas, Ukraine dispatched a series of attack drones hundreds of miles into Russian territory.

From Sydney to Vladivostok, communities around the world have begun welcoming 2025 with spectacular light shows, embraces and ice plunges.

A third year of war in Ukraine drags on as the new year and the conflict's February anniversary approach. The war in 2024 saw ...

When the ball drops in New York City’s Times Square to herald the start of 2025, it’ll actually be late to the party as dozens of countries around the world will already ...

Finland says a ship affiliated with Russia's "shadow fleet" is linked to a 60-mile-long anchor drag mark on the seafloor. A ...

The Irony of Fate” is a turn-of-the-year TV tradition that endures even in households that are now wary of Russian culture.

Russia’s connection to the rupture of an undersea cable between Finland and Estonia is raising a new bevy of fears over the ...

The soldiers of the "Polar Bear Expedition" fought against Bolshevik forces inside Russia at the end of 1918, even as World ...