huge street parties and fireworks displays in Sydney and Jakarta to quiet moments of prayer in a Buddhist temple in Tokyo, people around the world are welcoming in 2014.
Here's a gallery of images from New Year's Eve celebrations around the world.
1/People on a rooftop in the Pavao Pavaozinho slum watch fireworks exploding over Copacabana beach during New Year's Eve celebrations in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
2/A rainbow arches across the horizon during New Year's Eve festivities on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2013. Sugar Loaf is pictured on left. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
3/A Chinese woman prays on the first day of the New Year at the Yonghegong Lama Temple in Beijing Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
4/Revellers celebrate the New Year's Eve on the Champs Elysees avenue in Paris, France, Wednesday Jan. 1, 2014. The Arc de Triomphe stands in the background.(AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)
5/Revellers celebrate the New Year's Eve on the Champs Elysees avenue in Paris, France, Wednesday Jan. 1, 2014.(AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)
6/An Indian Sikh devotee takes a holy dip in the sacred pond at the Golden Temple in Amritsar, India, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014. Thousands of Sikh devotees stand in a queue to pay obeisance at the Golden Temple, Sikhs' holiest shrine, on the first day of the New Year. (AP Photo/Sanjeev Syal)
7/Pakistani Christians attend a prayer service on the first day of the New Year at a local church in Lahore, Pakistan, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
8/A woman holds a champagne bottle during New Year's celebrations in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014. Tens of thousands of Romanians took to the streets of the Romanian capital to join parties and watch fireworks. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
9/Fireworks explode above the central square of Rosa Khutor ski resort, a venue of the 2014 Winter Olympics, in Krasnaya Polyana, 60 kilometers (37.5 miles) east of Sochi, Russia during New Year's celebrations early Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Lesya Polyakova)
10/Pro-European Union activists hold light as they sing the Ukrainian national anthem, celebrating the New Year in the Ukrainian capital Kiev's main square early Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014. At least 100,000 Ukrainians sang the country's national anthem together at the square on New Year's Eve in a sign of support for integration with Europe. Opposition leaders had called on Ukrainians to come to Kiev's Maidan on the New Year's Eve and sing the national anthem in an act of defiance and what they expected could be the record-breaking live singing of an anthem. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
11/Miley Cyrus leaves the stage after her performance in Times Square Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2013, in New York, during new year celebrations. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
12/Looking from the Marriott Marquis hotel, fireworks erupt from One Times Square as the Waterford Crystal ball that will mark the new year is raised into position at six hours before midnight for New Year's Eve celebrations in New York Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2013. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
13/Fireworks fill the air in the bay over the Oakland, bottom, and San Francisco skylines, divided by the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge, as part of New Year's Eve celebrations in a view from Oakland, Calif. on Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
14/Revelers take part in the festivities in New York's Times Square shortly after midnight New Year's Day Wednesday Jan. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)
15/Three children bring Pope Francis the offertory as he celebrates a mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
