New Year's Eve

Many countries are ringing in 2023 with their first full-fledged celebration since the pandemic began. New Year's Eve fireworks light up the sky over the ...

A huge fireworks bonanza lit up the skies of Sydney as Australia entered 2023 with the display inspired by the land, sea and sky. But some people did gather before the curfew to mark the New Year. In the city of Ras Al Khaimah in the UAE, organisers of the New Year festival boasted a Guinness World record breaking fireworks and drone show. Crowds gathered at Auckland’s Sky Tower after Covid restrictions forced them to be cancelled a year ago. In Hong Kong, the New Year countdown celebrations kicked off with a spectacular sensory extravaganza featuring performances, together with a pyrotechnic and light show against the backdrop of the iconic Victoria Harbour and the Hong Kong skyline. Crowds of people gathered in Sydney, Australia as it became one of the first major cities around the world to celebrate the start of 2023, following two years of disruptions caused by Covid.

It is already 2023 across the Pacific, with Australians celebrating the New Year by firing more than 7,000 fireworks off the top of Sydney Harbour Bridge and a ...

Fireworks light up the sky to welcome the new year in Uganda Fireworks light up the sky as people react while they celebrate after counting down to the new year at Miracle Center Cathedral in Kampala, Uganda. Big Ben chimed in London as a crowd of more than 100,000 people gathered along the Thames Embankment in central London to watch 12,000 fireworks streak across the sky. People queued in the rain to enter the party in Princes Street as fireworks lit up the sky behind the city’s castle. [London](/topic/london), the chimes of [Big Ben](/topic/big-ben) rang to signal the start of the new year, as a crowd of more than 100,000 stood along the Thames to watch an iconic [fireworks display](/topic/fireworks-display). Meanwhile, crowds released balloons in Tokyo, Japan to the first strikes of the new year, as people in Seoul prayed and lit up the sky with their phones as they bid farewell to a painful year.