Bringing in the New Year
All around the globe, from Sydney Harbour to Times Square in New York, people came together to celebrate the end of the old year and the beginning of the new.
A woman celebrates as fireworks illuminate the sky above Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro. More than two million people gathered along Rio's most famous beach to witness the 20-minute display.
Crowds flocked to street celebrations in Edinburgh and a group of revellers used sparklers to write the number 2013 against the night sky.
A blizzard of confetti floats down onto masses of revellers as midnight strikes in Times Square.
Fireworks explode over St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow’s Red Square during celebrations for New Year’s Day.
A young woman with the year "2013" stuck to her hat prepared to celebrate the New Year in New York's Square.
Fireworks go off over the Parthenon to mark the New Year in Athens.
More fireworks fill the sky in London.
Crowds celebrate the start of the New Year in Times Square.
In Pyongyang, North Koreans watch a firework display to greet the New Year.
Crowds of visitors take pictures and videos during a light show as part of the New Year countdown in the financial square on the Bund in Shanghai.
People watch as fireworks go off over the coast of Vina del Mar in Chile.
The smoke of burning incense rises over a crowd of people as they stand in line to offer New Year prayers at a Sensoji temple in Tokyo. Millions of well-wishers visited temples and shrines to offer prayers on the first day of 2013.
Empty champagne bottles and glasses are left in the street during celebrations in Vienna.
