This week saw everybody around the world inviting year 2015. (Photo: AP)
North Korea said it had nothing to do with the attack, though it praised the hackers. (Photo: AP)
This came after a hacking attack that targeted Sony by wiping its hard drives and exposing studio executives’ sometimes embarrassing e-mails to public view. (Photo: AP)
"The Interview" is a comic film about an attempt to assassinate the country’s dictator, Kim Jong Un. (Photo: AP)
North Korea accused America of briefly shutting down its internet and described Barack Obama as “reckless” and “a monkey” for encouraging Sony Pictures to distribute “The Interview” (Photo: AP)
The centre of the cold air will be around Quebec, Canada. (Photo: AP)
National Weather Service meteorologist Paul Kocin, an expert on winter storms, said it is a classic pattern of massive blasts of Arctic air hitting just about everyone east of the Rockies. (Photo: AP)
Meteorologists are forecasting frigid polar air will plunge much of the central and eastern US into sub-freezing temperatures next week. (Photo: AP)
Indonesian officials said that the plane was running on an unauthorized schedule. (Photo: AP)
So far 30 bodies have been recovered from the sea. (Photo: AP)
Officials confirmed that the plane crashed in the Java sea. 'Big parts' of the plane were found, including the emergency door. (Photo: AP)
Meanwhile, major development took place in the search of Air Asia QZ8501 flight that went missing on December 28 2014 with over 160 passengers. (Photo: AP)
Shanghai police said on their official microblog that while closed-circuit television footage did show some bills had been thrown from a bar in a building overlooking the Bund, which a small number of people picked up, this did not cause the crush
It was the worst disaster in the cosmopolitan city since 58 died in an apartment building fire in 2010. (Photo: AP)
The stampede allegedly took place due to people rushing to pick up fake money thrown from a building overlooking the city's famous waterfront, however the police denied the reports. (Photo: AP)
However, even though it was a happy time for most, China mourned the death of almost 36 people in a stampede that occurred during the celebration.(Photo: AP)
As a part of the New Year's celebration, revellers in France burnt around 940 cars, a 12% fall from 1,067 cars burnt last year. (Photo: AP)
While most of the countries celebrated the year ending with a fire cracker show, some countries stuck to their traditions. (Photo: AP)