Around The World On New Year’s Eve – In 38 Pictures

About 2 millions people observe fireworks from Copacabana beach Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (GABRIEL LOPES/AFP/Getty Images)

Fireworks at London. (GABRIEL LOPES/AFP/Getty Images)

People celebrating New Year by painting their faces in Central Indian city Bhopal. (REUTERS/Raj Patidar)

People throwing water on old calendars to discard them in Montevideo, Uruguay. (REUTERS/Andres Stapff)

St Sylvester mummers went house to house, singing, dancing and ring their bells to wish people a very happy new year in the village of Urnaesch in the region of Appenzell. (REUTERS/Miro Kuzmanovic)

People prepare for traditional carbide-shooting to scare evil spirits in Zevenhuizen, Netherlands. (VINCENT JANNINK/AFP/Getty Images)

People prepare to release wishing lantern in Chengdu in southwestern China’s  Sichuan Province. (AP Photo)

Over 1.5 million people watched Fireworks that danced on the theme of "Awaken the Spirit" at Sydney Harbor  in Sydney, Australia. (KRYSTLE WRIGHT/AFP/Getty Images)

Fireworks at Twin towers in Kula Lumpur, Malaysia. (SAEED KHAN/AFP/Getty Images)

Fireworks light up the skies of downtown Beirut. (ANWAR AMRO/AFP/Getty Images)

People of Pakistan Celebrating New year on the streets with artificial snow in Lahore, Pakistan. (Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images)

Fireworks at Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya. (REUTERS/Noor Khamis)

A Couple kisses on New Years Eve in the centre of Brussels, Belgium. This year, the theme of the celebration was to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. (KURT DESPLENTER/AFP/Getty Images)

New Years Eve crowds line up Westminster Bridge, England. (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

Two women toast as fireworks explode in Berlin. (TIMUR EMEK/AFP/Getty Images)

People watch New Year’s Eve fireworks over Venice’s St Mark Square flooded by high water. (AP Photo/Luigi Costantini)

Fireworks explode at Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany. (Miguel Villagran/Getty Images)

Fireworks explode at Red Square in Moscow, Russia. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)

Revellers dressed up as San Fermin Festival at coin in Malaga, Spain.  (REUTERS/Jon Nazca)

400 Spotlights Illuminate the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. (AP Photo/ Michel Euler)

 

Fireworks explode above downtown at Jakarta's Welcome Monument in  Indonesia. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim

Fireworks explode in the Boston Public Gardens in Massachusetts. (Matthew J. Lee/Boston Globe staff)

A couple kisses during New Year’s Celebration in New York’s Time Square. (REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi)

Sushi, port yard by female impersonator Gary Marion, dangles high above New Year’s Eve revelers in giant reproduction of women’s high heel at the Bourbon street Pub, Florida. (ANDY NEWMAN/AFP/Getty Images)

Fireworks explode from Space Needle Light up downtown Seattle, Washington. (AP Photo/The Seattle Times, Cliff DesPeaux)

Fireworks Explode in the sky over the ocean as seen from Waikiki beach in Honolulu, Hawaii. (JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)

Fireworks light up in the sky in front of Mayon Volcano in Legazpi City, Manila. (REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco)

A monk stand in front of fire at Zojo-ji Buddhist Temple in Tokyo, Japan. (REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon)

A long exposure created using sparklers shows children writing out “2010”. Manila. (ROMEO GACAD/AFP/Getty Images)

A sanitation worker cleans up garbage in New York’s Time Square. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)

People admire moment the sun rises above Mount Fuji, from atop Ryugatake mountain in Fujikawaguchiko town near Tokyo, Japan. (REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao)

A New Years reveller runs for a dip in the icy sea during the Saunders foot annual charity swim in Saunders foot near Tenby, Wales. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

A man leaps from a bridge into River Dove during New Year’s Day annual charity event in Mappleton, England. (REUTERS/Darren Staples)

Malabon Zoo owner Manny Tang blows a horn with children outside the tiger glass enclosure Manila. (REUTERS/Cheryl Ravelo)

People sprint into the water as they participate in traditional New Year’s dive in The North Sea, in the Hague. (ROBIN UTRECHT/AFP/Getty Images)

Winter swimmers of the “Berlin Seals” take swim in water at one degree Celsius in the Orankesee Lake in Berlin. (MICHAEL KAPPELER/AFP/Getty Images)

Japanese young girl pray at Meiji Shrine in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)