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Australians partied well into the night during the first New Year's Eve celebrations without COVID-19 restrictions in three years.

Thousands flocked to Newcastle foreshore for the city's New Year's Eve celebrations

Thousands gathered for New Year's Eve celebrations and fireworks in Canberra around Lake Burley Griffin's Central Basin

Revelers have begun gathering in major city centers across the Asia-Pacific region to celebrate the first new year without COVID-19 restrictions since the pandemic began in 2020

Firefighters cut the two women from their car after the accident in Queensland's Glasshouse Mountains before they die at the scene.

Australia is gearing up to celebrate its first restriction-free New Year's Eve after two years of COVID disruptions, with more than a million revelers expected to flock to Sydney's harborfront and watch an elaborate fireworks display. Sydney is one of the world's first major cities to welcome in the New…

With fireworks planned in Paris, hopes for an end to war in Kyiv, and a return to post-COVID normality in Australia and China, Europe and Asia bid farewell to 2022.

Many of the city's spectacular ticketed vantage points sold out well ahead of tonight's celebrations, which will have a special focus on Indigenous art and World Pride events in 2023.

A missing man's late night fishing trip has been described as "out of character" after Tasmanian emergency services discovered his empty kayak.

Crowd numbers at New Year's Eve celebrations in Perth are expected to bounce back from last year in the absence of COVID restrictions.

When Karma Norman and Barry Lovell set out with their three children to spend Christmas afternoon at a NSW swimming hole, they were not expecting to spend the night in the bush.