Hello, 2015! A New Year Is Rung In Around the World
People bid adieu 2014 and welcomed in the New Year with fireworks, cheering and champagne.
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People watch New Year's fireworks at Barra beach in Salvador, Brazil.
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| MOSCOW | A child holds up a sparkler during New Year's celebrations in Moscow's Red Square. |
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| ARABIAN GULF | Sailors count down to the New Year in the hangar bay of aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson in the Arabian Gulf. |
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| MUNICH | Fireworks illuminate the sky above Munich, Germany, after the arrival of 2015. |
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| NEW YORK | Revelers celebrate ahead of New Year's Eve in New York's Times Square. |
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| LONDON | Fireworks light up the London skyline behind Big Ben just after midnight at the start of 2015. |
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| AMSTERDAM | Fireworks explode over an Amsterdam canal during New Year's celebrations. |
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| BEIRUT | A man holds a heart-shaped hot-air balloon during New Year's celebrations in downtown Beirut. |
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| BERLIN | Fireworks explode behind the Quadriga statue on top of Berlin's Brandenburg Gate shortly after midnight as 2015 begins. |
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| MOSCOW | Fireworks explode over Moscow's Red Square to welcome 2015. The projection of Spassky (Saviour) tower is seen over the scaffold covering the tower, which is underr renovation. |
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| MANILA | Fireworks light up the sky outside the Philippine Arena in Bocaue town, north of Manila, Philippines. |
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| SPAIN | Hundreds of people rush to the water as they participate in the 30th traditional Saint Silvester's Bath to say goodbye to the year in Tarragona, Catalonia, northeastern Spain, on Dec. 31. |
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| VATICAN CITY | Pope Francis holds a monstrance as he celebrates a New Year's Eve vespers Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. The traditional Mass on Dec. 31 contains the thanksgiving hymn ''Te Deum' for the ending year and is the last public appearance of the pope in 2014. |
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| MALAYSIA | Fireworks explode near Malaysia's landmark Petronas Towers during the New Year celebrations in Kuala Lumpur. |
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| SOUTH KOREA | A woman prays during New Year celebrations at Jogye Buddhist temple in Seoul, South Korea, on Jan. 1, 2015. |
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| SYDNEY | Fireworks light up the Sydney Harbour Bridge during the annual fireworks display to usher in 2015. More than 10,000 aerial fireworks, 25,000 shooting comets and 100,000 pyrotechnic effects were used during the annual Sydney Harbour New Year's Eve show, with an estimated 1.6 million people watching from along the harbor foreshore, local media reported. |
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| HONG KONG | Fireworks explode over Victoria Harbor in Hong Kong on Jan. 1, 2015. Just like previous years, the city's iconic skyline along Victoria Harbor lit up with an eight-minute pyrotechnic display, as tens of thousdands of partygoers flock to the waterfront to celebrate. |
