New Year 2025 celebrations and fireworks from around the world

This photograph shows a New Year fireworks show for children at the Museumplein in Amsterdam on December 31, 2024.

This photograph shows fireworks over the Petronas Twin Tower during the New Year celebration in Kuala Lumpur on January 1, 2025.

People watch as fireworks light up the sky during New Year's Eve celebrations at ICONSIAM in Bangkok on January 1, 2024.

Dancers perform during the New Year’s countdown celebrations in Beijing on January 1, 2025.

Fireworks light up the sky ushering in the New Year in Makati, Metro Manila on January 1, 2025.

People take photographs of fireworks from the Taipei 101 building, lighting up the midnight sky during 2025 New Year’s Day celebrations in Taipei on January 1, 2025.

Fireworks over the port during the New Year celebrations in Colombo on December 31, 2024.

Fireworks light up the midnight sky over Victoria Harbour during 2025 New Year’s Day celebrations in Hong Kong on January 1, 2025.

Participants hit a huge bell to welcome the 2025 New Year's Day, during celebrations post midnight at the Bosingak pavilion in central Seoul on January 1, 2025.

Fireworks light up the midnight sky over Sydney Harbour Bridge and Sydney Opera House during 2025 New Year’s Day celebrations in Sydney on January 1, 2025.

Kiribati, an island in the Pacific Ocean, was the first country to celebrate the New Year, followed by other nations including New Zealand, Japan, Samoa, and Indonesia.

People bid adieu to the last sunset of year 2024, along a beach near the Arabian sea in Mumbai on December 31, 2024.

Balinese traditional dancers perform during the dance of releasing the sun 2024, welcoming the sun 2025 a New Year's Eve celebration in Denpasar on Indonesia's resort island of Bali on December 31, 2024.

Devotees offer prayers at Kamakhya temple on the last day of the Year 2024, in Guwahati, India.

Participants wearing 1900 style costumes, run into the sea as they take part in the traditional last swim of the year, off the beach at Cabourg, northern France, on December 31, 2024.