New Year Celebrations Around the World

Fireworks explode over the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge during New Years Eve celebrations in Sydney, Australia, Jan. 1, 2015.

People release balloons beside the Tokyo Tower to celebrate the New Year during an annual countdown ceremony in Tokyo, Japan, Jan. 1, 2015.

Fireworks explode over the Victoria Harbor as celebrating the 2015 new year in Hong Kong, Jan. 1, 2015.

Pro-democracy revelers carrying yellow umbrellas, symbol of the Occupy movement, chant slogans among the celebrating crowds moments after a New Year countdown event in Hong Kong, Jan. 1, 2015.

In a photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency, schoolchildren perform "We Are the Happiest in the World" at the Central Youth Hall for New Year's Eve festivities in Pyongyang, Dec. 31, 2014.

A woman hangs a paper bearing her New Year wishes to a tree in Seoul, South Korea, Dec. 31, 2014.

ក្រុម​ប៉ូលិស​បាន​ឈរ​តម្រៀប​ជា​បន្ទាត់​នៅ​ក្នុង​អន្តររដ្ឋ ៩៤ កាលពី​ថ្ងៃ​ទី​ ០៩ កក្កដា ២០១៦ នៅ​ក្នុង​ក្រុង St. Paul រដ្ឋ Minnesota ដើម្បី​តបត​នឹង​អ្នកតវ៉ា​ដែល​បាន​បិទ​ផ្លូវហាយវ៉េ។

Students form "2015" standing on snow to welcome the upcoming New Year at Shenyang Agriculture University in Shenyang, Liaoning province, China, Dec. 31, 2014.

New Year's cakes are displayed outside a shop in Sheikh Maksoud neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, Dec. 31, 2014.

Singapore's skyline gliters with lights as spheres in the waters of Marina Bay form the number '50' to mark Singapore’s 50th anniversary in 2015, ahead of the New Year's countdown celebrations, Dec. 31, 2014.

مظاہرین اور بھارتی فورسز کے درمیان جھڑپوں میں کم از کم 28 افراد ہلاک جب کہ 200 سے زائد زخمی ہوئے۔