New Year’s Eve: celebrations around the world as 2023 begins – live

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Here are some snaps of the family fireworks display taking place in Sydney, Australia.

It is held three hours before midnight so that young children get a chance to join in the festivities before their bed times.

The "family fireworks", displayed three hours before midnight every year ahead of the main show at midnight, fill the sky over the Opera House in Sydney on New Year's Eve. Photograph: David Gray/AFP/Getty Images

New Year's Eve celebrations in Sydney
Early fireworks explode over Sydney Opera House during the New Year's Eve celebrations. Photograph: Jaimi Joy/Reuters

New Year's Eve celebrations in Sydney
Early fireworks explode over Sydney Opera House. Photograph: Jaimi Joy/Reuters

Welcome

It might mark an arbitrary point in the motion of the Earth around the sun, but as the year 2022 turns into 2023 as ever it will result in celebrations, fireworks, broken resolutions and quite a bit of staying up late to see in the new year, wherever you are on the globe.

It is already 2023 in Kiritimati (a big happy new year to all our readers on the islands), with many major cities around the world about the kick off their own celebrations. In the next few hours, the new year will be rung in across the Pacific in places including New Zealand, Australia and Tonga.

I will be bringing you the best photos from around the world and all the latest scenes of celebration as we bid farewell to 2022 and see in the new year.