New Year's Day/Eve News

Forget ball drops and champagnes. Thai people really know how to ring in the new year: with a water fight! During the Songkran festival , Thai people roamed the street with water buckets and water guns filled with ice cold water to drench friends and foes alike.

The Nerds have inherited the earth. Long live the Nerds! DC's official Naked Girls return from our brief hiatus to present Nerdettes and prove without a doubt nerds are sexy .

The Athens, Ga.-based brewery recently finished up an expansion, and they've been rolling out new beers left and right.

Bristol Crown Court heard Ryan Appleford had celebrated New Year's Eve with mates in the city centre when he was mugged at knifepoint early on New Year's Day.

The 39-year-old model raises kids Leni, nine, Henry, seven, Johan, six and Lou, three, with former husband Seal, and despite her busy schedule, she tries to be around to spend quality time with them whenever possible.

Donald Ford and Melissa Mathews' wedding is going to the dogs, and they wouldn't have it any other way.

Many Americans dutifully make New Year's Resolutions, but unfortunately most get broken or forgotten before too long.

In December James Cleaveland made an unusual New Year's resolution: to do all he could to keep police in the city of Keene, New Hampshire, from issuing parking tickets.

Frank van Wezel gets an email near midnight every Dec. 31. It's always from the same person - a Hi-Tec customer in Spain.

I wonder why the new year begins with the cold, dark and sometimes gloom of winter? If I had my... If you prefer a pet that you don't have to cuddle, a koi pond may be just right for you.

Follow a leather-upholstered tunnel to 38,000 square feet of theatrics, performers, lights and video.

The first trailer for Richard Curtis' About Time is online and can be watched using the player below.

She may be leaving the philatelic bureau after 14 years but Dot Tilbury said she would be taking a host of happy memories with her into retirement.

The New Year and its celebrations and resolutions probably seem like a lifetime ago.

Mr Howells said Ms Dalley had been a regular visitor to refuges and spoke about the abuse to a police officer but had always returned to Fear, whom she met in 2005.

A 44-year-old man has been jailed for life after he stabbed three members of a family at a New Year's Eve party in Swansea.

This year, when checking in with my New Year's resolutions, I changed one way I'd been thinking.

LOS ANGELES: Selena Gomez is planning to go all out for her 21st birthday celebration.

Xiaojing Wu of Lynn's Optimo Restaurant has petitioned the Department of Alcohol and Beverage Control to amend four of the 16 conditions regulating alcohol sales, live music and security at the business.

Got Light, San Francisco Bay Area Event Lighting Design Company , will design another spectacular event for revelers at San Francisco Symphonys Spring Gala on Thursday, May 16, 2013.