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Live Updates: Happy New Year 2020 Celebrations Usher in new decade
As countries around the globe are preparing to ring in New Year, let's have a sneak peak of key points
1. Samoa and Christmas Island the first to welcome new decade at 10am UK time
2. Auckland in New Zealand was the first major city to see in 2020
3. Around 12,000 fireworks set to light up London's sky at midnight
4. More than a million people have descended on Sydney Harbour for the traditional fireworks display.
Stay tuned with us as we try to bring in the updates from around the globe as they happen. The Hans India wishes you a Happy New Year 2020
Live Updates
- 31 Dec 2019 2:09 PM GMT
Back in Hyderabad, Hyderabad Metro Rail Timings will be extended to till 0100Hrs tonigh. The last train departs from terminal station at 0100Hrs
- 31 Dec 2019 2:02 PM GMT
Hong Kong cancelled its popular New Year's Eve fireworks due to security concerns with continuing anti-government protests.
- 31 Dec 2019 1:47 PM GMT
Here are some photographs from the new year celebrations in Auckland, New Zealand, which welcomed the dawn of 2020 just over an hour ago.
Auckland Celebrates New Year’s Eve 2019. Photograph: Steve Thomson/Getty Images for ATEED
New Zealanders celebrate New Year’s Eve. Photograph: Dave Rowland/Getty Images
- 31 Dec 2019 1:37 PM GMT
Celebrations are well under way in Edinburgh where people have already held a torchlit procession along the city's Royal Mile ahead of the fireworks display on New Year's Eve
- 31 Dec 2019 1:18 PM GMT
In Auckland, half a ton of fireworks burst from the Sky Tower above the city centre.
#WATCH New Zealand: #NewYear celebrated in Auckland; visuals from Sky Tower. pic.twitter.com/8EMqdYBwyz
— ANI (@ANI) December 31, 2019
