Crowds are seen around the Sydney Harbour foreshore at Circular Quay during New Year's Eve celebrations in Sydney, Australia, on Tuesday (Dec 31). - AP
SYDNEY/SINGAPORE: Revellers around the world were preparing on Tuesday (Dec 31) to ring in the New Year and a new decade with festivities and fireworks.
The Pacific island nation of Samoa will be first to celebrate the arrival of 2020 after it shifted its time zone west of the international date line eight years ago.
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