New York’s World Trade Centre at Ground Zero, the Big Wheel on Place de la Concorde in Paris, and City Hall in Tel Aviv are three of the latest landmarks to join the growing list of famous international attractions that will go green this St Patrick’s Day.

The homes of gladiators and country music are among the landmarks joining the global celebrations for St Patrick’s Day this year.

People across the globe rang in the new year last night with revellers in New Zealand Australia among those leading the way.

People across the globe have begun to welcome in the new year, with revellers in New Zealand among those leading the way.

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With fireworks, dancing and late-night revelry, millions around the world welcomed 2014.

Exploding fireworks sprayed from the sails of the Sydney Opera House and the Australian city’s harbour bridge at midnight as the world ushered in a new year.

Beyonce performed two bungee jumps in New Zealand on Friday.

Final preparations are taking place in Dublin today ahead of St Patrick's Day tomorrow.

Hundreds of world landmarks from Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate to the Great Wall of China went dark last night, part of a global effort to highlight climate change.

The world’s most famous landmarks will go green next month to mark St Patrick’s Day.

The world’s most famous landmarks will go green next month to mark St Patrick’s Day.

Iconic buildings around the world are going green for St. Patrick's Day.

TABLE Mountain in South Africa, the Empire State Building in New York and the Sky Tower in Auckland are among the iconic buildings and attractions around the world which will “go green” this year to mark St Patrick’s Day.

Dazzling fireworks lit up Australia’s Sydney Harbour, communist Vietnam held a rare, Western-style countdown to the new year, and Japanese revellers released balloons carrying notes with people’s hopes and dreams as the world ushered in 2011.

The floodlit cream shells of the famed Opera House dimmed today as Sydney became the world’s first major city to plunge itself into darkness for the second worldwide Earth Hour, a global campaign to highlight the threat of climate change.

EVEN for non-sports enthusiasts, there can be no doubt they know how much the All Blacks rugby brand has done for New Zealand tourism over the years.

A man stole a light aeroplane and threatened to crash it into the landmark Sky Tower in New Zealand’s largest city, Auckland, before plunging the craft into the sea today, police said.