ABC News’ Matt Gutman on what to do if a situation in a crowd becomes life threatening. It might feel like you've only just unwrapped your Christmas presents, but New Year's Eve and a new decade are just around the corner. Public transport on the Gold Coast will be free on buses, trains, trams and ferries (excluding DRT and Airtrain) from 7:45pm on New Year's Eve until 5:30am on New Year's Day.

Brisbane City Council has warned of road closures and changed traffic conditions in and around the city, including South Brisbane, Kangaroo Point, New Farm and Fortitude Valley. ABC announces unscripted series premiere dates for the 2020-2021 TV season! The Ohio State School for the Blind marching band will take the field at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa Bay on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. Test yourself and find out. Members of the FDNY helped the couple recover the ring in Prospect Park. They will be joined by Leslie Jones. Public transport is likely to be the best way to get around, with many major roads to close including roads in The Rocks and Circular Quay from 2:00pm, major roads north of Liverpool Street from 7:00pm, Anzac Bridge and Western Distributor in the citybound direction from 8:30pm to 9:30pm and 11:30pm to 1:30pm.

The City of Sydney has tried to make things easier by sharing a comprehensive list of potential places to watch it all go down. A punishing mid-season fixture, quarantined finals preparation and damaging COVID-19 sanctions have meant the Magpies faced more than their share of challenges heading into the AFL finals.

Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? Lucy Hale will co-host from Times Square with Ryan Seacrest for "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve.". And there's good news for drivers; the City of Darwin is offering free on-street parking in the CBD for the New Year period, until January 5, 2020. They will be joined by Leslie Jones. Are we doing contact tracing the wrong way?

Adelaide Metro is offering free buses, trains and trams from 5:00pm on the big day to between 6:00am and 8:00am on January 1, depending on your route. This could be his plan to stay in power, From free hoodies to the 'hunger games' — Australia's university sector in crisis, Shopping mall outbreak highlights Victoria's superspreading risk, Andrews says, Ola suspends driver who was filmed kicking gay couple out of car, Ticket reseller Viagogo fined $7 million for misleading Australians on an 'industrial scale', A maxi-Mars, a mini-Moon and meteors light up the October night sky, starting tonight, The 'heartbreaking' career move Sunili made for their health, Man accused of luring 13yo girl from shopping centre before drugging and assaulting her, 'The largest seizure of its type in the Territory': Cops seize $2 million of cannabis. The theme of the 2020 New Year's Eve Ball is the Gift of Goodwill. Trains will operate on a weekday timetable with additional services on all lines before and after midnight. Those in the know have said heading up kunanyi-Mount Wellington to get an elevated vantage point over the city, or perhaps the Signal Station at Mount Nelson, are grand ideas. They're going to be launched from barges and the Sydney Harbor Bridge. Luckily, the Department of Transport has promised more than 500 extra train, trams and bus services. At 11:59 p.m. Fireworks displays are slated to run at 8:30pm for families and at midnight for late-night revellers, with each show lasting 10 minutes. This version, which had halogen lamps for higher visibility, replaced a six-foot ball that had ordinary light bulbs. It is instead showing reruns of Bull, NCIS, FBI, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and The Late Late Show with James Corden. This is the third year Cooper and Cohen have co-hosted CNN’s New Year’s coverage from Times Square. There are four official fireworks celebration zones that offer clear views of the show and space to move around: Treasury Gardens, Flagstaff Gardens, Docklands and Kings Domain. Chances are you'll be ringing in 2020 with a glass of bubbly in hand, watching the New Year's Eve Ball descend from its flagpole atop One Times Square and crooning, "Should auld acquaintance be forgot …". So all in all, it's a small, casual affair …. "It is absolutely exquisite," she gushed to ABC News. Trump has COVID-19. For people from regional Victoria, there will be night coach services to Ballarat, Traralgon, Geelong, Seymour and Bendigo and the first train on each line in the morning will be free of charge.

Watch the fireworks celebration in Athens around the Parthenon. Subscribe: http://goo.gl/mo7HqT2017-12-26T19:59:31.000Z. The city is offering free buses all night to and from Darwin, Casuarina and Palmerston interchanges, making stops along the way. From 7:45pm on New Year's Eve until 5:30am on New Year's Day, public transport on buses, trains and ferries will be free. It's all set to go down at the Waterfront in Darwin this year, with the council touting the "biggest free New Year's Eve bonanza" ever to ring in 2020. A select group of 100 Waterford employees -- from engineers, glassblowers and technicians -- are involved in the design and manufacture of the New Year's Eve Ball, a process that begins in mid-January. ABC's Diane Macedo reports from famous ball with a look at how the NYPD is preparing. The countdown is on for New Year's 2020.

From 7:30pm, Gadigal Elders will welcome visitors to Gadigal land with a welcome to Country and Smoking ceremony. Head to Translink's website for more information.

In New York City, with heavy security on the ground and drones in the sky, people celebrate the start of the new year and see the famous 2020 ball drop. Check out the midnight celebration in Moscow in front of the Kremlin Palace.

Elsewhere in Coolangatta, the City of Gold Coast recommends grabbing a blanket and watching the shows from Queen Elizabeth Park. Buses will run to a weekday timetable on the big night, with extra services. Highlights from New Year's celebrations around the globe. All the New Year's Eve 2019-2020 TV programs' time & channels, from ABC's Dick Clark's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest to CNN's Anderson Cooper & Andy Cohen. However, there is no BYO alcohol and the event is non-smoking. Extra trains will run throughout the day and into the early hours of the New Year, though things will be a little different in two places: There will be thousands of extra bus services throughout the day and into the night — though services to and from the city will use different routes and bus stops because of planned road closures. Buses will depart from 7:00pm, with the last service operating at 6:30pm on New Year's Day.