With countdowns and fireworks, partygoers in cities across the world ushered in the first New Year’s Day without Covid-19 restrictions since the pandemic began in 2020.
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Fireworks explode over Sky Tower in central Auckland as New Year celebrations begin in New Zealand (Dean Purcel/NZ Herald via AP)
More than a million people were expected to crowd along Sydney’s waterfront for a multimillion-dollar celebration based around the themes of diversity and inclusion.
Fireworks explode over the Sydney Harbour Bridge as New Year celebrations begin in Sydney, Australia (Bianca De Marchi/AAP Image via AP)
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Celebrations are being held at the Great Wall in Beijing, while in Shanghai authorities said traffic will be stopped along the waterfront Bund to allow pedestrians to gather on New Year’s Eve.
A women wearing a mask waits on the main business district to celebrate New Year’s Eve in Jakarta, Indonesia (Achmad Ibrahim/AP)
People light up their smartphones as they celebrate the New Year’s eve in front of the Bosingak pavilion where its annual New Year’s bell-ringing ceremony is held in Seoul, South Korea (Lee Jin-man/AP)
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A woman holds her smartphone with 2023 as she celebrates the New Year in Seoul (Lee Jin-man/AP)
The New Year’s Eve ball sits on top of One Times Square in New York (Ted Shaffrey/AP)
The 2023 New Year’s Eve numerals are displayed in Times Square (Julia Nikhinson/AP)
Palestinian women in front of giant panda decorations and an illuminated 2023 in Gaza City (Adel Hana/AP)
People dressed as Ded Moroz – Grandfather Frost, the Russian Santa Claus – attend an annual flash mob in Moscow’s Metro hours before New Year’s Eve celebrations on the city (Sergei Kiselev, Moscow News Agency photo via AP)
Members of a Turkish dance club perform during New Year’s Eve celebrations in a public garden in the Turkish capital Ankara (Burhan Ozbilici/AP)
On the last day of the year, some marked by the brutal war in Ukraine, with many in the country returning to the capital Kyiv to spend New Year’s Eve with their loved ones.
Ukrainian soldier Vasyl Khomko, 42, hugs his daughter Yana as she arrives at the train station in Kyiv (Roman Hrytsyna/AP)
