PHOTOS: New Year’s Eve 2013 celebrated around the world
December 31, 2013
Thousands of locals residents gather to see the fireworks display and celebrate the New Year at the Red Square in Moscow, Russia, 01 January 2014. EPA/YURI KOCHETKOV ( RUSSIA NEW YEAR CELEBRATIONS )
A woman holds a champagne bottle during New Year's celebrations in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014. Tens of thousands of Romanians took to the streets of the Romanian capital to join parties and watch fireworks. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) ( Romania New Years Eve )
Thousands of Filipino simultaneously blow their Torotot (party blower) for the attempt to break the Guinness book of World Record for the "Most number of people blowing party blowers simultaneously" in Davao city, Southern Philippines, 31 December 2013. 10,000 party blowers are expected to make noise on New Yearís Eve in Davao city, aiming to break Japanís record of 6,900. EPA/RITCHIE B. TONGO ( PHILIPPINES NEW YEAR 2014 CELEBRATION )
People react to the fireworks on the new year's celebration at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on January 1, 2014. YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP/Getty Images ( 525707587 )
A couple kiss as fireworks illuminate the night sky over the Brandenburger Tor to welcome in the new year in Berlin, Germany, 01 January 2014. EPA/OLE SPATA ( GERMANY NEW YEAR 2014 )
Fireworks light the sky above the Mariendom (Cathedral of Mary), right, and the St. Severi's Church, left, shortly after midnight during New Year's Eve celebrations in Erfurt, central Germany, Wednesday, Jan 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer) ( Germany New Years Eve )
LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 01: Fireworks light up the London skyline and Big Ben just after midnight on January 1, 2014 in London, England. Thousands of people lined the banks of the River Thames in central London to see in the New Year with a spectacular fireworks display. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) ( 459834585 )
NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 31: Revelers wait in New York's Times Square to celebrate the New Year on December 31, 2013 in New York City. Thousands of people have endured long hours of cold weather to have a front seat to this year's star studded celebration. (Photo by Christopher Gregory/Getty Images) ( 459828803 )
Thousands of people attend the 2014 New Year's fireworks celebrations at Mont des Arts in Brussels, Belgium, 01 January 2013. EPA/OLIVIER HOSLET ( BELGIUM NEW YEAR 2014 )
A New York City police officer uses a metal detector to search a person entering barricaded pens in Times Square on New Year's Eve, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2013, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) ( United States New Years Eve )
Carmen Glavan, of Monterrey, Mexico, wears 2014 glasses with an American theme as she and others wait in Times Square for the midnight ball drop on New Year's Eve, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2013, in New York. The crowds will have to wait more than ten hours for the ball drop. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) ( United States New Years Eve )
Joseph Kalamatia, of Brooklyn, N.Y., center, cheers during the New Year's Eve celebrations in Times Square, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2013, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) ( US New Years Eve )
People awaiting the New Year celebrations in central Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 31 December 2013. EPA/REMKO DE WAAL ( NETHERLANDS NEW YEAR 2014 )
Fireworks explode over the Skepsbron street during the New Year's Eve celebration in central Stockholm, Sweden at midnight Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2013. (AP Photo/TT News Agency, Anders Wiklund) ( Sweden New Years Eve )
Ukrainian people attend the 2014 New Year celebrations at the pro-European supporters' tent camp at Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine, 01 January 2014. Protesters continue to hold their rallies in Kiev. EPA/SERGEY DOLZHENKO ( UKRAINE EU PROTESTS NEW YEAR 2014 )
A couple celebrates the New Year's Eve in the Old Town in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz) ( Poland New Years Eve )
A Filipino woman (C) holds her two-month old baby, Nigel, as Filipinos chant prayers during their 2014 New Year ritual inside a compound in slopes of the Sierra Madre Mountain Range, Rizal province, eastern Manila, the Philippines, 01 January 2014. Members of Jeri Sancte Missionary group, mostly rural healers who worship the 'high spirits of nature and planetary deities' welcome the New Year by kneeling for hours and chanted their prayers for a successful life in 2014 with protection from accidents, sicknesses, witchcraft and death. The Philippines is the only predominantly Roman Catholic country in Asia but it also hosts various sects and cults. EPA/DENNIS M. SABANGAN ( PHILIPPINES NEW YEAR 2014 )
A woman prays at the start of the New Year at Zojoji Buddhist temple in Tokyo, early Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi) ( Japan New Years Eve )
Cora Murphy-Usher, 7, of Narberth, Pa. is totally captivated by the streaming confetti coming down from the sky inside the Please Touch Museum as she and hundreds more, celebrated the New Year at noon on Tuesday , Dec. 31, 2013 in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/The Philadelphia Inquirer, Michael Bryant) ( Pennsylvania Daily Life )
A woman prays to the Yoruba goddess of the sea Yemanja at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on December 31, 2013. YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP/Getty Images ( 525705246 )
A rainbow arches across the horizon during New Year's Eve festivities on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2013. Sugar Loaf is pictured on left. (AP Photo/Leo Correa) ( Brazil New Years Eve )
Marchers make their way down Boylston Street during a parade as part of New Year's Eve celebrations in Boston, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2013. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer) ( United States New Years Eve )
DENVER, CO. - DECEMBER 31: Vendor Justin Andes demonstrated two of the items he had for sale on the 16th St. pedestrian mall in downtown Denver Tuesday night before the fireworks show. Denver rang in the new year with fireworks on the 16th St. Mall Tuesday night, December 31, 2013. Photo By Karl Gehring/The Denver Post ( CD31NEWYEARSEVE )
Taiwanese soldiers take part in a flag-raising ceremony at the Presidential Office Square in Taipei on January 1, 2014. Thousands of people attended the event on New Year's Day to celebrate the 103rd anniversary of the founding of the Republic of China. Mandy Cheng/AFP/Getty Images ( 525706272 )
Egyptian Coptics attend the New Year mass service at the Virgin Mary Coptic Christian church in Cairo's working class neighborhood 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. KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images ( 525705306 )
People celebrate the new year by the ancient Coliseum in Rome on January 1, 2014. FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP/Getty Images ( 525705725 )
People celebrate the New Year on the Trocadero Square before the Eiffel Tower in Paris on December 31, 2013. PIERRE ANDRIEU/AFP/Getty Images ( 525706394 )
People release balloons to celebrate the New Year during an annual countdown ceremony in Tokyo on January 1, 2014. Some 2,000 balloons were released in the air, carrying with the visitors' wishes. KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/Getty Images ( 525702084 )
Fireworks explode over the Harbour Bridge and the Opera House during New Year's Eve celebrations in Sydney, Australia, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith) ( APTOPIX Australia New Years Eve )
Fireworks explode as thousands of people line the streets of downtown Jakarta to welcome in the New Year in Indonesia, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Mark Baker) ( Indonesia New Years Eve )
The first-ever Bangkok Ball Drop at lebua - the world's highest New Year's Eve ball Drop - on Wednesday 1st January 2014, Thailand. (Luke Duggleby/AP Images for lebua Hotels & Resorts) ( New Year's Eve Bangkok Ball drop at lebua )
A Buddhist woman attaches her name card on a lantern ahead of the new year at Chogye Buddhist temple in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2013. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon) ( South Korea New Years Eve )
Young Indonesians light candles and pray to celebrate 2014 New Years on December 31, 2013 in Surabaya, Indonesia. A wave of pyrotechnic displays kicked off New Years celebrations in major cities around the world. (Photo by Robertus Pudyanto/Getty Images) ( 459819047 )
Buddhists light candles during New Year's Eve celebrations at Bongeun Buddhist temple in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon) ( South Korea New Years Eve )
Fireworks explode over the financial district at midnight, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014 in Singapore. Celebrations started on New Year's Eve where concerts were held and thousands gathered on the streets to usher in the Year 2014. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E) ( APTOPIX Singapore New Years Eve )
Fireworks explode at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre over the Victoria Harbor during New Year's Eve to celebrate the start of 2014 in Hong Kong, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014 (AP Photo/Kin Cheung) ( Hong Kong New Years Eve )
Laser lights shoot from a tower during a New Year's Eve count down to 2014 held at the Great Wall of China in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2013. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) ( APTOPIX China New Years Eve )
Laser lights shoot from towers during a New Year's Eve count down to 2014 held at the Great Wall of China in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2013. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) ( China New Years Eve )
A trader wears glasses celebrating the new year while working on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2013. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) ( Wall Street )
Toshiba Kimono Girls attend the Japanese New Year Countdown at Times Square on December 31, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for Toshiba) ( 459819473 )
Japanese New Year Countdown at Times Square on December 31, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for Toshiba) ( 459819477 )
The Naked Cowgirl walks up Broadway on December 31, 2013 at Times Square in New York. Cold temperatures are forecast as the crowd is expected to reach one million to watch the New Year ball to drop. DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images ( 525703148 )
Japanese New Year Countdown at Times Square on December 31, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for Toshiba) ( 459819469 )
Party items on sale for celebrations on December 31, 2013 in Times Square in New York. Cold temperatures are forecast as the crowd is expected to reach one million to watch the New Year ball to drop. DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images ( 525703188 )
Indonesian military release lanterns into the sky for the 2014 New Year on December 31, 2013 in Bintan Island, Indonesia. A total of 2014 sky lanterns were flown by the Indonesian military. (Photo by Yuli Seperi/Getty Images) ( 459819221 )
Anti-government protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban, bottom left, gets a blessing from a Buddhist monk who splashes him with holy water during a New Year celebration at the Democracy Monument in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014 . (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn) ( Thailand Politics )
Pope Francis checks time after visiting the nativity scene set in St. Peter's square following a New Year's Eve vespers service he celebrated in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2013. Pope Francis has used his traditional year-end prayer service of thanksgiving to urge people to ask themselves: Did they spend 2013 to further their own interests or to help others? That's what we all should "courageously" consider as New Year's celebrations get under way, the pontiff said, as he led the service in St. Peter's Basilica on Tuesday evening. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) ( Vatican New Year's Eve )
Buddhist monks hold candle lights during New Year's Eve celebrations at Bongeun Buddhist temple in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon) ( South Korea New Years Eve )
People take part in a traditional sea bathing to mark new-year's end on December 31, 2013 on a nudist beach in Le Cap d'Agde, southern France. PASCAL GUYOT/AFP/Getty Images ( 525700544 )
Actors dressed as the Russian Ded Moroz (Grandfather Frost) (L) and his companion Snegurochka (Snow Maiden) (R) take part a New Year parade in the Kyrgyzstan's capital Bishkek on December 31, 2013. New Year, which was the biggest informal holiday of the year in the former Soviet Union, is also very popular in predominantly Muslim Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan. VYACHESLAV OSELEDKO/AFP/Getty Images ( 525699461 )
People celebrate the New Year during a countdown event in front of the Bosingak Pavilion, in downtown Seoul, South Korea, on January 1, 2014. WOOHAE CHO/AFP/Getty Images ( 525702399 )
Indian sports players from the Madan Mohan Malviya Stadium light candles during an event to welcome the New Year in Allahabad on December 31, 2013. People around the world are welcoming 2014. Sanjay Kanojia/AFP/Getty Images ( 525701178 )
A Palestinian girl writes in the sand 2014 during the last sunset of the year in Gaza City on December 31, 2013. MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images ( 525702442 )
The sun rises on New Year's Day over Tokyo Bay on January 1, 2014. Some 200 people saw the first sunrise of Tokyo in 2014 from the Roppongi Hills observation deck, 270 metres (885 ft.) above sea level. AFP PHOTO/ KAZUHIRO NOGIKAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/Getty Images ( 525705731 )
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