Happy New Year somewhere! Midnight strikes across the globe as millions hail
The biggest party in the world is
underway with bright fireworks bursting into skies across the globe as
midnight strikes and nations hail the start of 2014.
Exploding fireworks sprayed from Sydney's iconic opera house and harbor bridge as the world began ushering in a new year.
More
than one million people crammed the Sydney Harbor foreshore on a warm
summer night to watch Sydney's renowned annual pyrotechnics show, which
appeared to live up to its billing as the city's most extravagant.
And for the first time in more than a decade fireworks launched from four sails of the Sydney Opera House.
The New Year's Eve Winter Carnival in Newcastle
city centre saw performers parading through the city to the Civic Centre
for a spectacular fireworks display
While organizers in cities like Chicago and New
York were just starting to block off streets in preparation for the
evening's events, festivities were well under way in Newcastle
Hundreds of people gathered at the Great Wall, a landmark place in Beijing, to celebrate the New Year
Badaling Great Wall is illuminated during the New Year's Eve count down to 2014 held at the Badaling Great Wall
All together now, happy new year! Performers
gather for a group photo after the end of a New Year's Eve count down to
2014 in Beijing, China
Packed in like sardines! Fireworks light up the
sky as thousands of people gather to watch, in the main business
district on New Year's Eve in Jakarta, Indonesia
In Hong Kong the harbour provided the focal point much like Sydney harbour three hours earlier.
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