- 'Terror attack' in Turkey
- Paramedics struggling to cope with level of emergency calls hours before midnight
- Queen may miss New Year's Day church service
- Donald Trump's new year message
- Security measures will form 'protective ring' in London
- Happy New Year, Australia
- New Year's Eve protest in South Korea
Too much Trump? Fair enough. Here is some Justin Trudeau, with a New Year message.
Fireworks for the kids have begun in Boston. Tweet courtesy of Massachusetts governor Charlie Baker.
Great to join all the families for tonight's #FirstNightBoston festivities, including the fireworks over the Common. Happy New Year!
Palestinian artist Osama Sbeata, 26, lights the words ‘2017 Happy New Year’ written in the sand in Gaza City.
Happy New Year to Abidjan, West Africa.
President elect, Donald Trump, has arrived at the same place he always celebrates New Year. At a star-studded party at the Mar-a-lago resort, which he owns, on Palm Beach. Tickets cost $575 for guests, and $525 for members.
According to Vanity Fair, Trump’s attendance has raised questions of a potential conflict of interest, with critics concerned the event could be perceived as selling access to the president-elect.
Incoming White House Director of Strategic Communications Hope Hicks told the press, “The transition is not concerned about the appearance of a conflict. This is an annual celebratory event at the private club, like others that have continued to occur since the election.”Hicks added, “the president cannot and does not have a conflict.”
Actor Sylvester Stallone, left, and his wife Jennifer Flavin arrive at Mar-a-Lago. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP
Celebrations in Barcelona looked pretty spectacular. Shout-out to Guardian reader Ricard P.
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The second course sounds pretty awful to be honest.
Meanwhile in Trump life, Politico reports that the author of a 1993 biography about the business tycoon, Harry Hurt, has had a New Year’s Eve run-in with his former book subject. Politico reports:
President-elect Donald Trump on Friday ejected from his West Palm Beach golf course one of his most critical biographers, Harry Hurt III, who had been preparing to play in a foursome with billionaire mega-donor David Koch.Hurt is the author of “Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump,” a 1993 book that revealed among other things that Trump was accused of “rape” by his ex-wife Ivana Trump in a sworn deposition during their divorce proceedings.On Friday, Hurt approached Trump on the practice tee at Trump International Golf Club, and congratulated him on his victory in last month’s presidential election, according to an account that Hurt posted on Facebook on Saturday.Trump responded by criticizing Hurt’s biography as untrue, to which Hurt replied “It’s all true,” according to both Hurt’s Facebook post and a transition official who was briefed on the incident, but did not want to be identified discussing a testy exchange involving the president-elect.Trump told Hurt “you’re out of here,” according to the transition official, while Hurt wrote on Facebook that Trump told him it was “inappropriate” for him to play at the club.
Some images are coming through of celebrations in Slovenia and Portugal.
The Falkland Islands are next to celebrate New Year. Meanwhile in New York, the crowds in Times Square are ready to party.
'Terror attack' in Turkey
Princes Street in Edinburgh is lit up as the thousands-strong crowd celebrates Hogmanay.
