Latest updates as fireworks and parties make a comeback around the world following a year of lockdowns and new variants
- New York presses ahead with New Year’s Eve party despite Covid records
- UK has warmest New Year’s Eve on record as temperatures top 15C
- Australia cautiously rings in 2022 with fireworks but fewer crowds
- 24C in Spain, 15C in the Alps: oddly warm end to 2021 in parts of Europe
- What are your New Year’s Eve plans?
Another chunk of the planet has just gone past midnight and into 2022. Vladivostok isn’t quite far east enough in Russia to have done so yet – it is still just gone 11pm there – but it looks like the party is in full swing in in Revolution Fighters Square.
There’s a treat in store for traditionalists in London today, as Maya Wolfe-Robinson reports: