PICTURES: New Year's Celebrations around the world

Elaborate: The London Eye is dwarfed by the impressive fireworks

A student prays during a vigil in Ahmedabad

Preparations for Myanmar's New Year celebrations

Indian revellers celebrate in Amritsar

Lasers light up the sky above Victoria harbour in Hong Kong

Revellers in Beijing celebrate

And celebrations are starting early in Germany, as revellers gather in Stuttgart to see in the new year

17.10 Fireworks are launched from the Taipei 101 building in Taiwan

Celebrations continue across Asia, with people gathering at Kuala Lumpur's Petronas Towers to see in the new year

Pictures are starting to come in from Hong Kong, where a huge firework display in Victoria Harbour helped welcome 2013

It's not all doom and gloom on Wall Street: these traders have donned party glasses for the last day of 2012 trading on the New York Stock Exchange

Two pupils get ready to celebrate the New Year at a school in Jiangxi Province, China

Fireworks over the Marina Bay in Singapore

^{Fireworks at the Burj Khalifa in Dubai}

^{Burmese people celebrate
during the first ever public New Year countdown}

^{NATO troops in Kabul see in the New Year}