Firefighters battled to save an historic church building in the centre of Amsterdam as flames tore through it in the early hours of New Year’s Day.

Revellers were given an unexpected pop culture crossover during London’s iconic New Year Eve fireworks display, as the jet2holidays advert meme made a surprise appearance.

Russia has released video claiming to show one of the 91 Ukrainian drones it alleges carried out an attack on one of Vladimir Putin’s residences.

Zohran Mamdani became the first New York City mayor to be sworn in using the Quran, in a symbolic inauguration performed at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve.

A new documentary claims King Charles “upset a lot of people in authority” in his commitment to environmental conservation.