SYDNEY: Around the world, New Year’s Eve is celebrated with lavish firework displays, traditional songs and indulging in festive treats. London and Sydney light up with huge firework displays, and New York residents and tourists gather in Times Square to witness the famous ball drop.
Samoa was the first country to ring in the New Year, celebrating the start of 2020 14 hours ahead of the UK.
Next, to celebrate the New Year was New Zealand followed by Australia.
Syndey, Australia welcomes in the new year with a cascade of fireworks over the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
One of Sydney’s most controversial New Year’s Eve fireworks displays has gone off without a hitch as almost $1m was raised for bush communities, reports the Australian Associated Press.
Crowds lining the city’s harbour watched the display as Indigenous electronic duo Electric Fields kicked off an all-Australian musical playlist. The pylons of the centrepiece Sydney Harbour Bridge earlier lit up with messages calling for donations to the Red Cross’s disaster relief fund. By midnight, more than $700,000 had been raised.
New Zealand
New Zealand has entered 2020 and a new decade with massive fireworks and celebrations in Auckland and Wellington.
Smoke-choked Sydney was gearing up Tuesday for a huge fireworks display, kicking off a wave of New Year celebrations for billions around the world and ringing in the new decade.
Australia’s largest city usually puts on a dazzling display of pyrotechnics over the glittering harbour but this year’s celebrations have been overshadowed by calls to cancel the fireworks as devastating bushfires rage across the country.
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