Students sit in a formation during their celebration of the New Year at a school in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad, India. (Reuters)

Young boys play with firecrackers on the eve of the New Year, as the sun sets in Colombo, Sri Lanka. (AP)

People ride their bicycles at the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei. Hundreds of thousands people participated in the bike ride on New Year's Eve as part of an attempt to achieve a Guinness World Record of the largest bicycle parade in the world. Various groups began from 1,000 starting points around the island and cycled clock-wise towards the next starting point within one hour. (Reuters)

Indonesian Muslims pray during a mass prayer event for the nation on New Year's Eve in the area of the National Monument (Monas) in Jakarta. (Reuters)

A couple looks at an ice sculpture of Father Frost, the local equivalent to Santa Claus, and his Snow Maiden granddaughter Snegurochka during a New Year's celebration in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia. (Reuters)

Activists wear Guy Fawkes masks during New Year's Eve celebrations at Independence Square in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (AP)

Fireworks explode over the Sydney Harbor Bridge and Opera House during a pyrotechnic show to celebrate the New Year in Australia, just after midnight, Jan. 1, 2012. (Reuters)

Bernadette Brandl smiles as she takes part in the New Year's Eve festivities in New York's Times Square. Brandl, who is originally from Austria, is currently living in Minnesota. (AP)

The number 2012 is written with sparklers during a long exposure in front of St. Stephen's Cathedral (Stephansdom) during New Year's Eve celebrations in Vienna, Austria. Picture taken using slow shutter speed. (Reuters)