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New Year celebrations around the world - PHOTOS
People react to the fireworks during
the New Year celebration at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
on January 1, 2014. PHOTO | YASUYOSHI CHIBA
AFP
People celebrate the New Year on the Champs-Elysees in Paris early on January 1, 2014. PHOTO | PIERRE ANDRIEU
AFP
Fireworks explode over Ebrie Lagoon
during New Year celebrations in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on January 1,
2014. The government implemented safety measures to avoid another deadly
stampede that killed at least 60 and injured 49 during the 2013 New
Year festivities. PHOTO | SIA KAMBOU
AFP
Ukrainians sing the state anthem
during a mass demonstration marking the New Year on Independence Square
in Kiev late on December 31, 2013. Some 200,000 pro-EU protesters took
part in the New Year celebrations. PHOTO | SERGEI SUPINSKY
AFP
Fireworks explode over the London
Eye and the Houses of Parliament along the river Thames during the New
Year celebrations in central London just after midnight on January 1,
2014. PHOTO | LEON NEAL
AFP
Thousands of revellers gather in New
York's Times Square to celebrate the ball drop at the annual New Year's
Eve celebration on December 31, 2013 in New York. PHOTO | TIMOTHY CLARY
AFP
Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip
(L) and Latvian Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis shake hands at a
ceremony during which Dombrovskis symbolically withdrew a 10 euro note
in Riga on January 1, 2014 as fireworks lit up the capital after
midnight, ringing in the New Year and the country's entry into the
troubled eurozone. While leaders feted the 18th addition to the bloc,
the people of this Baltic state bade a reluctant farewell to their
cherished lats - seen as a symbol of independence from the Soviet Union -
to switch to the debt-mired European single currency. PHOTO | AIVARS
LIEPINS
AFP
Egyptian Coptic children dressed in
Santa Claus costumes attend the New Year mass service at the Virgin Mary
Coptic Christian church in Cairo's working class neighbourhood of
Al-Warrak on December 31, 2013. In October 2013 four people were gunned
down as they attended a wedding at the same church in October 2013;
seventeen others wounded in the attack. PHOTO | KHALED DESOUKI
AFP
Fireworks explode over Berlin's
landmark Brandenburg Gate, where one of the country's biggest New Year's
parties was held on January 1, 2014. PHOTO | JOHN MACDOUGALL
AFP
People release balloons to celebrate
the New Year during the annual countdown ceremony near the Prince Park
Tower in Tokyo on January 1, 2014. Some 2,000 balloons were released in
the air carrying people's wishes. PHOTO | KAZUHIRO NOGI
AFP
People gather to celebrate the New
Year in the Red Square in front of Kremlin in Moscow, early on January
1, 2014. Tens of thousands of people gathered in the Red Square to
celebrate the New Year at midnight. PHOTO | VASILY MAXIMOV
AFP
Fireworks explode from the Burj
Khalifa, the world's tallest tower, in Dubai on January 1, 2014 to
celebrate the new year. Dubai kicked off the New Year with a dazzling
bid for a new world record to cap those the Gulf city state already
holds for its mammoth property developments. The glittering fireworks
display that lasted around six minutes spanned over 100 kilometres of
the Dubai coast, which boasts an archipelago of man-made islands. PHOTO |
STRINGER
AFP
A lightshow illuminates the Great Wall of China during a New Year countdown event on December 31, 2013. PHOTO | WANG ZHAO
AFP
Pyrotechnic show company "Group F"
performs with fireworks in the Vieux Port (Old Port) of Marseille,
southern France, on December 31, 2013, as part of New Year celebrations
on the last day of the Marseille-Provence 2013 European Capital of
Culture. PHOTO | ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT
AFP
People watch the sun rise on New
Year's Day on January 1, 2014 over Tokyo Bay. Some 200 people saw the
first sunrise of Tokyo in 2014 from the Roppongi Hills observation deck,
270 metres above sea level. PHOTO | KAZUHIRO NOGI
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