The global partying kicked off on Sydney’s waterfront with the Australian city’s biggest-ever fireworks display, thrilling 1.5 million people. Signage beamed onto a bridge pylon got the year wrong — it said happy 2018 — but city officials laughed off the gaffe. Fireworks shows, however, were cancelled out of respect for victims of a December 22 tsunami that killed more than 400 people. Concerts and light shows featured in Moscow city parks, and more than 1,000 ice rinks opened for merrymakers. As the world celebrates, many are wondering whether the turmoil witnessed in 2018 will spill over into the next year.

Source: Egypt Independent January 01, 2019 08:37 UTC