In pictures: New Year celebrations across the world

Fireworks explode in the sky over Bucharest, Romania, at midnight, Sunday, January 1, 2012, during street celebrations. AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda

Revellers gather at the Champs-Elysees on New Year's Eve in Paris, France. EPA/YOAN VALAT

Fireworks light the sky above the Grossmuenster church in Zurich, Switzerland, during the New Year celebrations. EPA/ALESSANDRO DELLA BELLA

Giovanna Rodger joins thousands of revelers gathered in New York's Times Square to celebrate the ball drop at the annual celebration in New York City. Jemal Countess/Getty Images/AFP

Fireworks and confetti fill the sky in New York's Times Square at midnight. EPA/PETER FOLEY

Crowds watch fireworks illuminate the night sky over Castel dell'Ovo in Naples, Italy. EPA/CIRO FUSCO

The Circular Mound is illuminated as Beijing celebrates the New Year's Eve at the Temple of Heaven Park. Lintao Zhang/Getty Images

A kaleidoscope of fireworks explode over the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Over one and a half million spectators lined the harbour vantage points to watch the spectacular pyrotechnic display. AFP PHOTO / Torsten BLACKWOOD

Fireworks light the sky above the Cathedral square in Vilnius. AFP PHOTO / PETRAS MALUKAS

Thousands of Egyptian Muslims and Coptic Christians attend a celebration on New Year's eve in Tahrir Square in Cairo, as they remember those killed in the revolution that ended the long reign of president Hosni Mubarak. AFP PHOTO / KHALED DESOUKI

Iraqi Kurds watch fireworks lighting up the sky on New Year's Eve in the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, Arbil. AFP PHOTO/SAFIN HAMED

Fireworks explode to welcome the new year in Dresden, eastern Germany. AFP PHOTO / SEBASTIAN KAHNERT

Fireworks explode over the temple of the Parthenon atop the hill of the Acropolis during New Year's eve celebrations in Athens. REUTERS/John Kolesidis

People watch a fireworks display during New Year celebrations at a cemetery in Vina del Mar city, about 121 km (75 miles) northwest of Santiago. Dozens of families gathered at the cemetery to celebrate the start of the new year alongside the graves of their loved ones, as part of a tradition which began some years ago in Vina del Mar. REUTERS/Eliseo Fernandez

A man lights an Old Man effigy which symbolizes burning the past and getting ready to start a happy New Year without bad memories of the past in Mumbai, India on New Year's eve. AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool

NATO troops from the U.S.-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) celebrate New Year's Eve in Kabul. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani

Fireworks light up the London skyline and Big Ben just after midnight . Thousands of people lined the banks of the River Thames in central London to see in the New Year with a spectacular fireworks display. Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

An Iranian Christian kisses the Cross held by archbishop Babken Charian, during New Year Mass at the Vank church in the central city of Isfahan, 234 miles (390 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran. AP Photo/Vahid Salemi

People dance during New Year's celebrations in Madrid, Spain. AP Photo/Andres Kudacki

Sri Lankan folk dancers perform a ritual on the eve of New Year in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The ritual is aimed to bless the country in the new year and to ward off the bad spirits . AP Photo/ Eranga Jayawardena

Fireworks explode from Taiwan's tallest skyscraper Taipei 101 during New Year celebrations in Taipei. REUTERS/Shengfa Lin