Fireworks lit up Sydney Harbour as the city celebrated the new year.
This video, taken by Andrew Hawkins, shows the countdown and the fireworks going off from the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Fireworks were also set off at the Sydney Opera House and on barges. Credit: Andrew Hawkins via Storyful
The flag can now be used on sports jerseys, sporting grounds and websites without payment of a fee
Australians have celebrated and protested the anniversary of British colonization of their country on a day officially known as Australia Day but considered by Indigenous activists to be Invasion Day
Coulthard has tipped the seven-time world champion to remain part of the Formula 1 grid in 2022
Drayton, 50, has been sentenced to 14 weeks in prison and banned from driving for three years.
‘If there is an attack... the price [for Russia] will be very high,’ said Emmanuel Macron
Shocking CCTV footage has been released showing the moment a teenage girl was kidnapped by her "controlling" boyfriend before she fell out of a van on a dual carriageway.
Boris Johnson and at least some ten other people at a birthday party for him in No10 during lockdown would have been hit with £100 fines if police had busted the event, a leading expert claimed on Tuesday. Human rights barrister Adam Wagner, of Doughty Street Chambers, suggested the June 2020 event was a “birthday party” and would have been regarded as a breach of the rules.
The low-cost airline said Omicron saw its load factor, a measure of how well it fills its planes, slump to 67% in December.
Village committee rules against holding outsized event this year
Brody Dalle testifies that Josh Homme head-butted her so hard she ‘saw stars’. Dalle gave her testimony against the Queens of the Stone Age frontman on the first day of a trial over their competing domestic violence restraining orders
Chicago police say they are not looking for any suspects in the case
Italian coastguard rescue migrants attempting the perilous Mediterranean crossing from Libya in a boat carrying 280 people in cold weather. "Three people died during the crossing, another four suffering severe hypothermia died after they were intercepted by the coast guard and were being transferred to the island," according to Lampedusa mayor Toto Martello.
Panda cubs pose for photos with their keepers and play with new year decorations during an event to mark the Lunar New Year, which falls at the start of February this year, at a breeding base of the Wolong National Nature Reserve in southwestern China.
The National Weather Service in Buffalo warned that heavy, lake-effect snow would impact areas near Lake Erie on Wednesday, January 26.This footage taken by Denis Kreze on Wednesday morning shows freezing waters and snowy shorelines just across the US border in Fort Erie, Ontario, before showing ice floating down the Niagara River, Kreze said. Credit: Denis Kreze via Storyful
When even The Wolseley, the grand London restaurant fabled for its full English fry-up, served with toast on a rack and a silver-plated tea pot, is in danger of shutting up shop, it’s time to worry. The old-fashioned breakfast – once a home habit or a on-the-way-to-work treat has fallen out of favour and might never recover.
Images released by the People's Protection Units (YPG), a Kurdish militia, show what they say are their fighters deployed inside Hasakeh's Ghwayran prison, hunting down armed jihadists.
Snake catcher Stuart McKenzie found a very Australian way to mark Australia Day, by removing a python from a curtain rail in a home in Buderim, Queensland.“What’s more Australian than having a snake in your house,” McKenzie said, after wishing his customer a happy holiday.The python was found hanging about in the lounge room after it had shed skin in the garage. McKenzie managed to remove it and set it free in a more suitable location. Credit: Stuart McKenzie via Storyful
Nellie Smith, 13, went missing from Horsham, west Sussex after visiting her grandmother on Thursday January 20 at 7pm. Scotland Yard believe she is somewhere in north London, most likely Barnet, Harrow or Brent. Sussex Police said in an appeal she may have travelled to the capital by herself to meet her mother.
Boris Johnson has previously denied having any part in the decision.
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