New Year's Eve celebrations and fireworks around the world are ringing in 2025, as New York City's Times Square gears up for the traditional ball drop at midnight before an estimated one million revelers.

Hall of Famer Lydia Ko has been made a Dame in the New Year’s honors list in New Zealand for her services to golf. A damehood is the female equivalent of a knighthood and she’s become Dame Lydia Ko after receiving one of New Zealand's highest civil honors on Tuesday.

New Zealand has honored golfer Lydia Ko, 27, with one of the country's highest civil honors by making her a Dame for her services to the sport.

How do you cap a year in which you won an Olympic gold medal and earned your way into the LPGA Hall of Fame? Lydia Ko has the answer. On Monday, the 27-year-old from New Zealand was honored by the government with the title Dame,