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Australian officials have banned people from gathering near to Sydney Harbour Bridge to watch the New Years Eve fireworks display, due to coronavirus. The celebrated annual event, which normally attracts around one million people to the citys harbourside, can only be watched live by those who live in the area and their guests. New South Wales state premier Gladys Berejiklian said those who live in the city centre can invite up to 10 friends and family to their homes to celebrate. Guests will ha...

Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90 As families around the world sing carols and exchange gifts around the Christmas tree, more and more Israelis want to get in on the celebrations. This year, more Israelis are celebrating Christmas than ever. And though we celebrate Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, in the Fall according to the Hebrew calendar, New Year’s Eve celebrations have also been popular in Israel for some time now. Here we call it Sylvester after the saint whom legend has it converted the E...

The 100 best Christmas songs of all time From Mariah to Bublé, heres our pick for the very best tunes for the festive season 100 best Christmas songs of all time for your festive music playlist for adults and kids Nay-sayers and Scrooges will say that Christmas music is the scourge of the high street and advertising from November onwards, but few can truly resist the cockle-warming powers of Wham!s Last Christmas or Fairytale of New York.  Mariah Careys All I Want for Christmas is You may hav...

2020 vision: A year in review The year 2020 will go down in history as one of the most challenging in generations. Lorna Hutchinson looks back on an extraordinary twelve months. Adobe stock 23 Dec 2020 January The year kicks off on a celebratory note, as Finland, Austria and Sweden celebrate 25 years of EU membership, when they became the 13th, 14th and 15th Member States of the EU following referendums in each of the states prior to accession. Meanwhile, Brexit is at the forefront of many peop...

Auld Lang Syne lyrics: the meaning behind the song (and eight things you didn’t know about it) The tradition Scottish tune is synonymous with New Year celebrations. But where does it come from – and what does it actually mean? 31 December 2020 • 6:33pm Every year, on December 31, merrily inebriated people gather – perhaps virtually this year – to sing the same song, Auld Lang Syne. The fact that few actually know all of the words, let alone their meaning, has rarely stopped anyone ...

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Published: 4:00 PM December 22, 2020    Brave swimmers taking the plunge at Clevedon Marine Lake New Years Swim. Picture: MARK ATHERTON - Credit: Archant Clevedon Marine Lake has confirmed its annual Boxing Day and New Years Day charity dips have been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. The popular event typically sees crowds gather for a swim in the North Somerset attractions cold waters. The New Year swim also includes a singalong to Auld Lang Syne. The festive swims have grown in ...

Edinburgh’s New Year celebrations to go online with a virtual Hogmanay Phoebe Taplin Torchlit processions, fireworks, lasers, concerts, cannons and ceilidhs … Edinburgh’s annual new year celebrations are some of the biggest in the world. They span several crowded, fun-packed days and nights and draw hundreds of thousands of visitors to the city’s streets for a series of giant parties. This year, however, Hogmanay is going online for the first time and a new virtual progr...

Last modified on Tue 22 Dec 2020 11.08 EST Torchlit processions, fireworks, lasers, concerts, cannons and ceilidhs … Edinburgh’s annual new year celebrations are some of the biggest in the world. They span several crowded, fun-packed days and nights and draw hundreds of thousands of visitors to the city’s streets for a series of giant parties. This year, however, Hogmanay is going online for the first time and a new virtual programme will feature one of the UK’s largest-ever...

Health Canada, under Patty Hajdu, in March 2020 re-authorized poisoning wolves with strychnine.  (Beth Clifton collage) Big Bad Wolf blamed for habitat loss due to global warming             EDMONTON, Alberta, Canada––Again this Christmas season,  Alberta Environment & Parks will welcome Santa’s reindeer by setting out strychnine. The strychnine will be not for Santa,  nor for the reindeer,  the North American variety of whom are called caribou,  but rather for the Big Ba...