Updated: January 01, 2012, 12:00 AM
In pictures: New Year celebrations across the world
epa03046523 Revellers gather at the Champs-Elysees to welcome 2012 New Year on New Year's Eve in Paris, France, 01 January 2012. EPA/YOAN VALAT *** Local Caption *** 03046523.jpg
Fireworks light the sky above the Grossmuenster church in Zurich, Switzerland, during the New Year celebrations. EPA/ALESSANDRO DELLA BELLA
Fireworks and confetti fill the sky in New York's Times Square at midnight. EPA/PETER FOLEY
Crowds watch fireworks illuminate the night sky over Castel dell'Ovo in Naples, Italy. EPA/CIRO FUSCO
The Circular Mound is illuminated as Beijing celebrates the New Year's Eve at the Temple of Heaven Park. Lintao Zhang/Getty Images
A kaleidoscope of fireworks explode over the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Over one and a half million spectators lined the harbour vantage points to watch the spectacular pyrotechnic display. AFP PHOTO / Torsten BLACKWOOD
Fireworks light the sky above the Cathedral square in Vilnius. AFP PHOTO / PETRAS MALUKAS
Giovanna Rodger joins thousands of revelers gathered in New York's Times Square to celebrate the ball drop at the annual celebration in New York City. Jemal Countess/Getty Images/AFP
Thousands of Egyptian Muslims and Coptic Christians attend a celebration on New Year's eve in Tahrir Square in Cairo, as they remember those killed in the revolution that ended the long reign of president Hosni Mubarak. AFP PHOTO / KHALED DESOUKI
Iraqi Kurds watch fireworks lighting up the sky on New Year's Eve in the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, Arbil. AFP PHOTO/SAFIN HAMED
Fireworks explode to welcome the new year in Dresden, eastern Germany. AFP PHOTO / SEBASTIAN KAHNERT
Fireworks explode over the temple of the Parthenon atop the hill of the Acropolis during New Year's eve celebrations in Athens. REUTERS/John Kolesidis
People watch a fireworks display during New Year celebrations at a cemetery in Vina del Mar city, about 121 km (75 miles) northwest of Santiago. Dozens of families gathered at the cemetery to celebrate the start of the new year alongside the graves of the???
A man lights an Old Man effigy which symbolizes burning the past and getting ready to start a happy New Year without bad memories of the past in Mumbai, India on New Year's eve. AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool
NATO troops from the U.S.-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) celebrate New Year's Eve in Kabul. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani
An Iranian Christian kisses the Cross held by archbishop Babken Charian, during New Year Mass at the Vank church in the central city of Isfahan, 234 miles (390 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran. AP Photo/Vahid Salemi
Fireworks explode in the sky over Bucharest, Romania, at midnight, Sunday, January 1, 2012, during street celebrations. AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda
People dance during New Year's celebrations in Madrid, Spain. AP Photo/Andres Kudacki
Sri Lankan folk dancers perform a ritual on the eve of New Year in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The ritual is aimed to bless the country in the new year and to ward off the bad spirits . AP Photo/ Eranga Jayawardena
Fireworks explode from Taiwan's tallest skyscraper Taipei 101 during New Year celebrations in Taipei. REUTERS/Shengfa Lin
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