Crowds Ring in New Year With Fireworks
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Revelers from Times Square to downtown Los Angeles welcomed 2005 amid elaborate celebrations that included dazzling fireworks, laser lights and music.
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BEIJING (Reuters Life!) - Fireworks, temple fairs, karaoke: China's capital Beijing celebrates the Lunar New Year, the country's biggest holiday, with gusto.
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Tens of thousands of people are expected to take part in a giant New Year's kiss in front of Saint Mark's Basilica in the romantic Italian city of Venice, the authorities said Friday.
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A million revelers cheered fireworks in Sydney, Australia Â one of the first cities to celebrate the New Year. Beijing started the year with fireworks, singing and dancing put on by the organizers of the Summer Olympics.
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Residents and Albanians around the world celebrate with dancing, fireworks and street parties
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Heads of state and leaders from across the world used their traditional New Year messages to reflect on the events of 2004.
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The dignitaries making rounds to express their good wishes in the usual new year's day official exchange paid tribute to the people hit by the natural catastrophe in Asia.
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New Year's Eve revelers converged on Times Square to watch the dropping of a new energy-efficient ball, while gay couples in New Hampshire awaited the stroke of midnight to take advantage of a new law allowing civil unions.
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They hold parades right down Main Street. Huge fireworks displays erupt in their honor, lauded in part for the way they help subsidize the local economy.
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Millions are travelling home for Chinese New Year in what is called the world's biggest human migration.
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ATHENS: Fireworks lit up the sky in Athens Friday as the 12th Paralympic Games officially got under way to a chorus of drums and a sea of dancers.
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Britain's cities are preparing to mark the New Year with firework displays, concerts and sports events, but the celebrations will be overshadowed by the Asian tsunami disaster.
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Vandals torched 372 cars as France  celebrated the New Year, down on the figure last year after a  night the police described as "relatively calm."
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Five people were shot, one fatally, at a New Year's celebration in Indianapolis, Indiana, early Tuesday, police said.
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The Times Square New Year's Eve ball is celebrating its centennial by going green
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SYDNEY : More than a million people are expected to turn out for the annual fireworks show in Sydney on Friday as Australia&#39;s biggest city brings in the New Year in a celebration subdued by tragedy and turned into a fundraiser for tsunami victims.
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Bulgaria in Brief: 30 December 2004, Thursday. On the eve of upcoming New 2005 Year, Sofia has been glittering in numerous lights, bulbs, decorations, candles and flags.