Sydney, historically the primary to host a serious New Year’s bash, kicked off the worldwide festivities when it lit up the skies with pyrotechnics on the stroke of midnight (1300 GMT Thursday).
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Fireworks explode over the temple of the Parthenon at the Acropolis hill during the New Year celebrations in Athens, Greece.
Dubai officials said at least 14 people suffered minor injuries from the fire, which police said is about 90 percent controlled.
Elsewhere in Europe, terror fears also loomed large, with firework displays canceled in Brussels and Paris, just weeks after terrorists killed 130 people on the streets of the French capital.
Police officers were also on hand at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate.
Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo said the show was aimed at “sending the world the message that Paris is standing, proud of its lifestyle and living together”.
‘We’ve been policing at the threat level of severe for some time now. Shopping malls and cities organised displays to discourage people from lighting their own firecrackers.
Auckland, New Zealand, was one of the first major cities in the world to ring in the New Year.
West Midlands Ambulance Service, which put a record number of crews on duty, said they dealt with 1,629 emergency call-outs between 8pm on New Year’s Eve and 4am on New Year’s Day. One celebration was organized at a town near the border with rival North Korea to watch one of the ceremonies and wish for peaceful Korean unification.
Pope Francis encouraged humanity to hang on to recollections of good deeds so that gestures of goodness can be seen triumphing over evil.
Indian school girls with their faces painted, say farewell to 2015 and welcome the new year in a school in Jammu, the winter capital of Kashmir, India.
In this photo taken with long exposure, fireworks explode near the medieval Mariendom or St. Mary’s Cathedral shortly after midnight during the New Year celebrations in Erfurt, Central Germany.
Despite the dramatic scenes from the inferno, which injured sixteen individuals, the festivities went forward as deliberate and crowds cheering the bursts of sunshine and color from an enormous fireworks present at close by Burj Khalifa skyscraper, whilst smoke billowed from the close by lodge.
The city called off its usual New Year’s Eve fireworks display, citing fears of a possible militant attack.
“Celebrating the new year contradicts the instructions of Islamic religion”, Batniji said. In Hong Kong, revelers gathered along Victoria Harbor, which was illuminated with a dazzling fireworks display.
Tens of thousands lined banks and bridges along the Thames, braving intermittent spells of rain ahead of a midnight display featuring around 12,000 fireworks which produced 50,000 projectiles.
Thousands of police will be checking bags and be posted around the city because of the terrorism threat. “This New Year’s Eve I am going to dance and party until the cock crows”, said 35-year-old Franklyn Smith.
A police spokeswoman said: “If you do not have a ticket, entry will not be permitted, so the advice from the Met is to watch the spectacle from the comfort of your home”.
Rio de Janeiro will have two themes for its New Year’s party – the 100th anniversary of samba music and the upcoming Olympics next year.
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(160101) – NEW YORK, Jan. 1, 2016 (Xinhua) – People participate in the New Year’s Eve celebration at the Times Square in New York, the United States, on December 31, 2015.
