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From setting fireworks in Australia to ringing temple bells in Japan, all around the world, New Year’s celebrations are underway. In New York’s Times Square,...
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Watch consecutive coverage of New Year's celebrations around the world as countries usher in 2022 with fireworks, light displays and shows.
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Dec 31, 2020 · YouTube Originals will kick off the New Year with a monumental and uplifting worldwide celebration by chasing midnight around the globe with “Hello 2021,” a virtual New Year’s Eve event. It brings together 2020’s most influential public figures, music artists and YouTube creators.
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Fireworks burst and confetti fell as throngs of revellers cheered the start of 2020 in New York City's Times Square. In one of the globe's most-watched New Year's Eve spectacles, the crowd counted down the last seconds of 2019 as a luminescent crystal ball descended down a pole. About 1,360 kilograms of confetti showered the sea of attendees, many ...
About three million people welcomed 2020 at Brazil's iconic Copacabana beach as almost 15,422 kilograms of colourful fireworks went off for 14 minutes after midnight. Rio de Janeiro holds one of the biggest New Year parties in the world, with music, drinks and religious rituals on the shores. Many dress in white in a traditional sign of their hope ...
A joyful crowd of Parisians and tourists walked, biked and used scooters to reach the Champs-Élysées for the celebrations, in a city with almost no public transport amid massive strikes. Revellers converged toward the famous avenue to watch a light show at the Arc de Triomphe, followed by a fireworks display at midnight. Paris police set up a secur...
Pope Francis delighted tourists and Romans in St. Peter's Square on Tuesday night when he took a stroll to admire the nativity scene. Shouts of "Pope! Pope!" and "Happy New Year!" resounded as families rushed to catch a glimpse of him or thrust out their infant in hopes he would pat their heads or pinch their cheeks. One woman grabbed the Pope's ha...
Russians began the world's longest continuous New Year's Eve with fireworks and a message from President Vladimir Putin urging them to work together in the coming year. Putin made the call in a short speech broadcast on television just before the stroke of midnight in each of Russia's 11 time zones. As is tradition, the recorded message was followe...
Londoners watched a spectacular fireworks display from the banks of the River Thames that was launched from the London Eye and barges near Parliament. The familiar chimes of London's Big Ben clock tower rang in the new year, even though they have been silent for most of 2019 because of extensive restoration work. To the north, the multi-day Hogmana...
In Australia, some communities cancelled fireworks celebrations due to the devastating wildfires. But Sydney's popular display over its iconic harbourfront went ahead, with more than a million people descending on the hazy harbour. The city was granted an exemption to a fireworks ban there and elsewhere to prevent new wildfires. Some tourists trapp...
Hong Kong's government also cancelled its popular New Year's Eve fireworks in Victoria Harbour due to security concerns as protesters staged more rallies against what they see as an erosion of democracy in the Chinese-ruled city. A Symphony of Lights took place instead, involving projections on the city's tallest skyscrapers after a countdown to mi...
For nearly 10 minutes, fireworks lit the sky over Dubai's Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, as hundreds of thousands gathered downtown to watch the spectacular display. The New Year's Eve display at the 828-metre-tall skyscraper was just one of seven fireworks shows across the emirate. Tourists, especially from Europe and Russia, flock to...
Major cities greeted the new year with traditional fireworks. In Auckland, about half a tonne of fireworks burst from the Sky Tower above the city centre. New Zealanders saw off the old year without regret. In March, a gunman killed 51 people and wounded dozens at two mosques in the South Island city of Christchurch. In December, an eruption of vol...
Jan 1, 2020 · In Pictures: New Year celebrations around the world. From North Korea to New York City, revellers welcome 2020 with parties, fireworks and dancing. Fireworks explode around the London...
Jan 2, 2020 · New Year's Eve fireworks erupt over Sydney's iconic Harbour Bridge and Opera House. PHOTO: AFP Fireworks explode near Petronas Twin Towers during New Year celebrations in Kuala Lumpur,...
