The New Year rings in as Asia and Europe usher out stormy 2022

It was a year marked by the conflict in Ukraine, economic stresses and the effects of global warming. But it was also a year that saw a dramatic soccer World Cup, and efforts to meet climate challenges.

With fireworks in London, Paris and Berlin, hopes for an end to the war in Ukraine and a return to post-Covid normality, Europe and Asia bid farewell to 2022.