Jubilant partygoers said goodbye to 2022 and good morning to 2023 as the clock struck midnight on January 1.
The new year began in the tiny atoll nation of Kiribati in the central Pacific, then moved across Russia and New Zealand before heading deeper, time zone by time zone, through Asia and Europe and into the Americas.
Across the world, at least for a day, thoughts focused on possibilities, even elusive ones like world peace, and mustering — finally — a resolve to keep the next array of resolutions.Brazilians celebrate during fireworks marking the start of the New Year at Gonzaga beach on January 1, 2023 in Santos, Brazil.
Ryan Seacrest, Liza Koshy, and Jessie James Decker speak onstage during Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest 2023 on December 31, 2022 in New York City. Fireworks explode next to the Arc de Triomphe, at the Avenue des Champs-Elysees during New Year celebrations in Paris, early on January 1, 2023.
Fireworks explode in the sky on New Years Eve from the King Taksin Bridge on January 01, 2023 in Bangkok, Thailand.