2023 is still hours away in Alaska, but around most of the world, people have already celebrated the new year. Check out the wild festivities!
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.
In London, tens of thousands of people watched the city’ss New Year’s Eve fireworks display on the banks of the River Thames for the first time since 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic. Restrictions on mass gatherings dampened festivities in both 2020 and 2021, when drone light shows replaced more traditional fireworks viewing.
New York City prepared to join the glow of the new year with a dazzling Saturday night spectacle in iconic Times Square, anchoring celebrations across the United States. The night culminates with a countdown as a glowing geodesic sphere 12 feet in diameter and weighing almost six tons descends from its lofty perch atop One Times Square. Its surface is comprised of nearly 2,700 Waterford crystals that will be illuminated, officials said, by a palette of more than 16 million colors.
“I think we live in a broken world, and we see that play out every day,” she said. “I think anytime that we can do something to make it a little less broken is always a good thing.”
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