In Pictures: New Year 2024 celebrations from around the world

The world has been saying goodbye to 2023 and welcoming 2024. Here's how people in different countries celebrated the new year.

Australia was among the first countries to welcome 2024. It did so in style with a spectacular firework display in Sydney Harbour

In India some chose to meet 2024 in a state of inner peace as they meditated at a temple near Ahmedabad

In China, balloons were released to celebrate the arrival of 2024 in Nanjing...

...while in the capital Beijing, tourists stopped to take pictures of the first sunrise of the year from the Great Wall

In Shanghai, a man burns incense paper and sticks while praying for good luck in Jing'an Buddhist Temple

Lights lit up the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, as the city prepares for its Olympic year

Fireworks exploded over the Brandenburg Gate at midnight in Berlin, but there were also outbreaks of violence in the city

In the Wat Bang Na Nai temple in Bangkok, people lay down inside coffins in a ritual believed to rid them of bad fortune through a resurrection ceremony

People perform workouts during sunrise on the first day of the new year in Sana'a, Yemen

There were fireworks in London, where 100,000 people gathered to watch a display...

... and fire in the Lompoul desert in Senegal where musicians performed a traditional dance

This is one way to shake off the night before - in Rome there is a tradition of diving into the Tiber from the Cavour Bridge on New Year's Day

US rapper LL Cool J was among the acts at the New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square, New York

Matt Lutz and Olivia Shain, from Owensville, Indiana, chose midnight at the New York celebration to get engaged

And if you want to see some moving images...

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