Revelers around the world ring in the New Year

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From Moscow to Berlin, New Year's Eve celebrations ringing in 2015 went off with a bang.

Paris welcomed 2015 in style with fireworks and a visual effects display on the Champs Elysees.

Almost a million people from all over the world celebrated New Year's in Berlin with a big party at the Brandenburg Gate.

Moscow residents met the New Year at Red square with fireworks ablaze, hope for an end of the economy crisis in 2015.

Meanwhile, residents of the Ukrainian breakaway region of Crimea celebrated their first New Year after the peninsula was annexed by Russia.

When Big Ben struck midnight, the sky became illuminated as London welcomed 2015 with a spectacular firework display on the bank of the River Thames.