Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old democratic socialist, was sworn in publicly as the mayor of New York City on Jan. 1.

Zohran Mamdani has been sworn in as New York City's new mayor in a historic midnight ceremony at a decommissioned Manhattan subway station.

He is the first Muslim and South Asian person to serve as mayor, the first to use a Quran at his swearing-in and the youngest mayor in over a century.

Dozens were killed after a fire broke out during a New Year’s celebration at a ski resort in Crans-Montana, the heart of the Swiss Alps.

Investigators on Friday set about the painful task of identifying the burned bodies of a blaze that engulfed a crowded bar and killed around 40 people at a New Year's Eve party in the upscale Swiss sk...

Horrified bystanders described “panic” as people tried to break through the windows of the bar to escape, and others, covered in burns, poured into the street.