Confetti Rains Down as New York City Welcomes 2020

Confetti falls during a New Year’s celebration in New York’s Times Square, Wednesday, January 1.

The world rang in a new year and decade Wednesday with fireworks, music and all-night parties.

The celebrations included the usual massive gathering in New York’s Times Square where people counted down the remaining seconds of 2019 and cheered as 2020 officially arrived.