Fireworks explode over the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Sydney Opera House during a midnight display on New Year's Eve on Sydney Harbour on January 1, 2019, in Sydney, Australia. #

A preview of the new Waterford Crystal's "Gift of Harmony" design for the 2019 New Year's Eve ball at One Times Square on 42nd Street in New York City, photographed on December 27, 2018 #

A worshipper of Yemanja wades into the ocean with a small-scale boat filled with offerings for the goddess of the sea during a ceremony that is part of traditional New Year's celebrations on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on December 29, 2018. As the year winds down, Brazilian followers of Yemanja celebrate the deity, offering flowers and launching large and small boats into the ocean in exchange for blessings in the coming year. The belief in the goddess comes from the African Yoruban religion, brought to the Americas by West African slaves. #

Malaysian women take photographs as they wait for New Year's fireworks at the Palace of Justice building during celebrations outside Kuala Lumpur on December 31, 2018, in Putrajaya, Malaysia. #

Members of the public take part in a torchlight procession as it makes its way down the Royal Mile for the start of Hogmanay celebrations on December 30, 2018, in Edinburgh, Scotland. #

The Celtic-fire-theater company PyroCeltica leads a torchlight procession down the Royal Mile on December 30, 2018, in Edinburgh, Scotland. More than 150,000 visitors from all over the world are expected to visit the city for traditional New Year's celebrations, which run over three days. #

Members of the Cryophile amateur-winter-swimmers' club react while rubbing one another with snow after taking a bath in the icy waters of the Yenisei River, with the air temperature at about –26 degrees Celsius (–14.8 degrees Fahrenheit), during an event marking the new year and the Christmas season in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, on December 30, 2018. #

More than 260 middle-school students greet the arrival of the new year by spelling out the phrase Hello, 2019 on the playground of Taicang No. 2 Middle School in Jiangsu province, China, on December 28, 2018. #

Spectators watch as fireworks explode in front of Malaysia's landmark building, the Petronas Twin Towers, during a New Year's celebration in Kuala Lumpur on January 1, 2019. #

Fireworks light up the sky over the Palace of Justice building to mark the first day of the new year outside Kuala Lumpur, in Putrajaya, Malaysia, on January 1, 2019. #

A participant wearing a fox mask takes part in the Oji Fox Parade to mark the new year on January 1, 2019, in Tokyo, Japan. The Oji Fox Parade was established in 1993 as a modern-day, living re-creation of an artwork that depicts the legend of how foxes from all over the Kanto region would gather beneath a large tree on New Year's Eve in the area where Tokyo now stands and don costumes and parade to the Oji Inari Shrine to mark the arrival of the new year. #

People take photos with the number 19 in Times Square ahead of the New Year's Eve celebration on December 19, 2018, in New York City. The numerals are part of the "2019" sign that will light up above Times Square. #