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Wild celebrations underway after breathtaking display of fireworks fills the night sky above London tonight
Shard in London beamed out the highest ever New Year's Eve countdown as the world celebrated arrival of 2015
Hundreds of thousands lined the River Thames in London for spectacular fireworks display at midnight
Tragedy in Shanghai, China after 35 people are killed in a stampede during New Year's celebrations in the city
Fiji and New Zealand welcomed 2015 with fireworks and celebrations at 11am GMT, followed by Australia
New Years Eve celebrations have taken place around the globe with an estimated 1.6milliongathering in Sydney
Display in the Sydney Harbour featured seven tonnes of fireworks and is thought to have attracted 1.6million
Beijing celebrate with an event in the Olympic Park to highlight its bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics
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By Julian Robinson for MailOnline and Sara Malm For The Daily Mail
A breathtaking display of fireworks lit up London's night sky as huge crowds descended on the Capital for the arrival of 2015.
Revellers watched on as a giant clock, illuminated on the side of London's Shard skyscraper, counted down to midnight triggering wild celebrations across Britain.
The New Year started with a bang as an explosion of light from some 12,000 fireworks - weighing a combined 15 tons - filled the sky above London's South Bank - including spectacular blasts from the frame of the London Eye.
The 11-minute display, which is said to have cost £1.8million and was accompanied by an electronic soundtrack, featured a poignant commemoration of the centenary of the First World War with bursts of red fireworks representing poppies.
It comes as millions around the world have welcomed in 2015 with a series of spectacular fireworks displays.
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Spectacular: The London Eye explodes with light as a massive display of 15 tons of fireworks helps usher in the New Year in central London
A breathtaking display of fireworks lit up London's night sky tonight as hundreds of thousands descended on the Capital for the arrival of 2015
The sky above Big Ben in central London turns red as thousands of fireworks are set off during a spectacular £1.8million display tonight
Fireworks explode above 'Big Ben' during the New Year celebrations in central London just after midnight
The New Year started with a bang as an explosion of light from some 12,000 fireworks - weighing a combined 15 tons - filled the sky above London's South Bank
The sparkling display featured 12,000 fireworks. Crowds of hundreds of thousands lined the River Thames
Unlike last year, when about 500,000 people crammed into part of the city to view the display, just 100,000 paying ticket holders were permitted to watch the city’s annual celebration from a fenced-off area at a cost of £10 per ticket
Ringing in the New Year: Big Ben's chimes signalled the start of a massive firework display that drew gasps among the thousands watching
The 11-minute display featured a poignant commemoration of the centenary of the First World War with bursts of red fireworks representing poppies
Fireworks explode around the Houses of Parliament and the London Eye in a dazzling display
Selfie time: Revellers use their mobile phones to capture the stunning fireworks bonanza. A woman even turns her back on the display momentously to take a selfie
Although 100,000 saw the display from the official viewing areas, many more saw it from other parts of the Capital
Revellers lined the River Thames for a fireworks display timed to the midnight bongs of Big Ben, Parliament's famous bell
This was the view towards the London Eye from RAF Memorial on Victoria Embankment. This year a ticket system was introduced to limit the numbers of people at the prime viewing sites to 100,000
Services braced themselves for a busy night, with London Ambulance Service expecting up to 600 calls an hour
Breathtaking: Minutes after the dazzling display (pictured), Prime Minister David Cameron tweeted: 'Happy New Year'
Big Ben is lit up in an explosion of red light from fireworks blasting into the night sky behind
The London display was counted in by a 10-minute digital countdown on The Shard's western facade, followed by lighting comprised of searchlights, strobes, and a 2015 numeric graphic
Big bang: Smoke drifts across the surface of the River Thames as fireworks rocket out from the frame of the London Eye
Atmospheric: The sky glows red as fireworks blast in to the night along the South Bank behind London's Shard skyscraper
The London ticketing scheme was brought in following consultation with the Metropolitan Police, emergency services, and local authorities, to help manage crowd numbers which have been growing each year
Thousands gathered at Edinburgh Castle to enjoy the Hogmanay celebrations which featured a huge fireworks display
Kasey Snyder, Thomas Haworth and Heather Haworth from Texas dressed to impress in tartan as Edinburgh's 2015 Hogmanay celebrations got underway
In Sydney, Australia, an estimated 1.6million people turn ed up to watch more than 10,000 aerial fireworks, 25,000 shooting comets and 100,000 pyrotechnic effects on show during this year's New Year's Eve display over Harbour Bridge and the Opera House.
But tragedy struck in Shanghai, China where 35 people were killed in a stampede during New Year's celebrations. Another 42 people were reportedly injured amid the chaos about a half-hour before midnight.
Revellers lined the River Thames for a fireworks display timed to the midnight bongs of Big Ben, Parliament's famous bell.
Unlike last year, when about 500,000 people crammed into part of the city to view the display, just 100,000 paying ticket holders were permitted to watch the city’s annual celebration from a fenced-off area at a cost of £10 per ticket.
People without tickets were told by the office of the London Mayor to watch the display from home.
'Whether it's in a pub or from the comfort of your sofa, for those without a ticket the best view of #londonnye fireworks is on BBC1,' it said in a tweet.
There have been reports tonight that tickets for the viewing area were exchanging hands for up to £100 each.
Services braced themselves for a busy night, with London Ambulance Service expecting up to 600 calls an hour, operations director Jason Killens said on Twitter.
He said: 'Over 100 emergency calls in the first 15 minutes since midnight - its getting busy this London NYE.'
This was the stunning view of the London Eye fireworks display captured from the don's 2015 New Year fireworks display from the North bank of the River Thames
Tickets for the viewing area were non-transferable, meaning people needed valid ID from the original ticket buyer to gain entry to the event
In a spin: At times the London Eye resembled a giant Catherine wheel as fireworks rocketed out of the giant frame
The River Thames was transformed under a sea of green and red as the 11-minute display dazzled crowds
In London, a crew of more than 300 are said to have been involved in setting off some 12,000 fireworks last night
The Shard will tonight beam out the highest ever New Year's Eve countdown as the rest of the world continues to celebrate the arrival of 2015
Smashing show: More than 10,000 aerial fireworks, 25,000 shooting comets and 100,000 pyrotechnic effects are expected to be used
For the world: Drones will be used to live stream the fireworks as they launch from the Harbour Bridge, the Opera House and several barges
Honuring those lost: Tributes to the Martin Place siege victims are planned amid the evening's fireworks in the harbour
In Rio De Janeiro, two hours behind London and Greenwich Mean Time, more than 1million people are expected to flock to Copacabana beach, where two dozen artists and DJs will perform on three stages. Tourists and locals routinely party until dawn on the beach, staying awake to watch the tropical sun rise for the first time in 2015.
A massive fireworks display blasted from boats in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean will light the sky over the crowd, which traditionally dresses in all white, a Brazilian New Year tradition to bring purification and a peaceful year.
Another tradition calls for partygoers to enter the sea up to their knees and jump over seven waves shortly after the New Year begins, for luck
Europe - get ready! A visitor writes '2015' with a light pen in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France ahead of the new year
Incoming: 2015 is written in the air with a sparkler at the frozen Mana River in the Taiga district outside Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk
Anniversary: A floating installation of 25,000 wishing spheres line Marina Bay, Singapore as the sovereign-city state prepares to celebrate its golden jubilee of 50 years of independence from Malaysia in 2015
Annual display in the Sydney Harbour will feature seven tonnes of fireworks and is expected to attract 1.6million
The harbour is expected to dazzle as 50 vessels carrying over 8,000 people erupt in light shortly after the first round of fireworks at 9pm
Thousands of people have already started the festivities on Wednesday morning, streaming into Sydney's CBD in anticipation of the evening's spectacular fireworks
Images have been released showing how Pyongyang in secretive North Korea celebrated New Year's Eve
Thousands gathered in the Kim Il-Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea in a photo that Reuters said was released by a 'third party'
New Year's Eve celebrations have already started across North America with New York's traditional crystal ball already in place in Times Square.
The Waterford crystal ball will drop at midnight, in a tradition being increasingly copied across the United States with twists celebrating local icons. Las Cruces, New Mexico, is spicing up New Year's Eve with its first chili drop. In Miami, a 10-meter (35-foot) neon orange will light up, while Atlanta and Nashville, Tennessee, will drop a peach and a musical note, respectively.
Flagstaff, Arizona, celebrates with a 2-meter (6-foot) pine cone that drops from a downtown hotel. Nearby Prescott drops a 2-meter (6-foot) spurred cowboy boot in a nod to its western culture.
On Lake Erie in Port Clinton, Ohio, the community will carry on its tradition of dropping a 270 kilogram (600 pound) walleye made of wood and fiberglass.
Michigan's Upper Peninsula will ring in 2015 with a nod to its mining history, with a replica of a pasty - a baked pastry filled with meat and potatoes traditionally associated with Cornwall in the UK - to drop in Escanaba, one of the remote region's largest cities. The meal was popular by miners who immigrated to Michigan decades ago.
The 'National Fireworks' light up the night sky above the Scheepvaart Museum, in Amsterdam in The Netherlands
Tens of thousands looked up in to the sky above the Erasmus Bridge (left), in Rotterdam in The Netherlands
Hundreds of thousands in Berlin, Germany enjoyed a lengthy fireworks display at midnight
Spectacular: The night sky above the Brandenburger Tor in Berlin, Germany is lit up in a dazzling display of fireworks
Fireworks illuminate the night sky over a giant Christmas tree during the 2015 New Year's Eve celebrations in Beirut, Lebanon
Fireworks explode over the ancient Parthenon temple at the Acropolis hill for the the New Year's Eve celebrations during rainfall in Athens, Greece
The sky glows red as a fireworks display explodes in the night sky above Istanbul in Turkey
Fireworks light the sky over the Kibera Slums during New Year's celebrations in Nairobi, the Capital of Kenya
Revellers photograph fireworks over the Arc de Triomphe as they celebrate the New Year's Eve on the Champs Elysees avenue in Paris, France
Tens of thousands of people gathered on the Avenue des Champs-Elysees in Paris before watching the city's fireworks display
epa04543912 Fireworks illuminate the sky during the New Year's Eve festivities in Zurich, Switzerland
Crowds begin to gather on the Embankment in central London, for the New Year celebration fireworks display at the London Eye, in central London
Yui Wu and Hill Yeung enjoy the Hogmanay New Year celebrations in Edinburgh during the UK's biggest outdoor winter music festival
In Scotland celebrations have been underway since Tuesday night when Edinburgh kicked off the Hogmanay festival, which is the UK's biggest outdoor winter music festival.
Large crowds are expected at the world-famous street party which will see performances from Twin Atlantic, Twilight Sad, Eddi Reader and this year's Mercury Prize-winners, the Edinburgh-based act Young Fathers.
The concert in the gardens is being headlined by Lily Allen, who will be joined by special guests Bjorn Again and Soul II Soul. A midnight fireworks display will welcome in 2015, followed by the traditional mass rendition of Auld Lang Syne.
The Gulf Arab emirate of Dubai was aiming to break the world record for the largest LED-illuminated facade.
Some 70,000 LED panels were wrapped around the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, which draws throngs of thousands of spectators every New Year's Eve for an impressive fireworks display.
Emaar Properties said a team from Guinness World Records monitored the preparations. Last year, Dubai won the title for the world's largest firework display, according to Guinness.
Gearing up: Fireworks are set off over Calton Hill during Edinburgh's Hogmanay festival on Tuesday night
They sure know how to party: Men dressed as Vikings take part in the torchlight procession as it makes its way through Edinburgh for the start of the Hogmanay celebrations on Tuesday
How they do: A midnight fireworks display will welcome in 2015, followed by the traditional mass rendition of Auld Lang Syne (pictured is celebrations on Tuesday night)
Let it burn, burn, burn: A fire surrounded by revellers in viking costumes burns on Calton Hill during Edinburgh's Hogmanay on Tuesday
Doing it big: Edinburgh's Hogmanay, which kicked off last night, is the UK's biggest outdoor winter music festival
Don't drop the ball! Workers test out the lighting on the New Year's Eve ball used in the Times Square celebration in New York
Jeffrey Straus, president of Countdown Entertainment and Brent Shafer, CEO of Philips North America, watch the Times Square crystal ball which is illuminated with 32,256 LED lights and is made up of 2,688 Waterford crystals
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