New Year begins as world mourns
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Millions mark the start of 2005 with restraint amid global mourning for victims of the Asian earthquake.
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Travel: Warm up for New Year's Eve 2008 with our gallery of celebrations around the world
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After the earthquake and tsunami hit countries in South Asia, New Year celebrations have been cancelled in Jakarta, capital of Indonesia, the country, which suffered the greatest loss of life.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Aircraft, naval vessels  and trucks struggled Friday to deliver aid around stricken  southern Asia as the death toll exceeded 124,000 from a tsunami  which darkened the world's New Year.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - A legion of ships and  planes delivered aid to millions of Asian tsunami survivors on  Saturday as New Year revellers around the world paused to mourn  victims of one of the worst disasters in living memory.
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World leaders have been sending their condolences following the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
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World leaders on Thursday expressed their condolences over the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who died earlier in the day at a French military hospital outside Paris
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Four Nordic nations were set to ring in the New Year in shock and mourning, faced with their deadliest catastrophe in modern times as people sat glued to news reports from Asia where thousands of their loved ...
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Bereaved family members and survivors will be at the service A service remembering Britons killed or injured in terrorist attacks abroad last year is to be held in London.
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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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PARIS -- For Sweden's prime minister, celebrating New Year's after the Asian tsunami felt ''completely wrong." Paris, its heart heavy with the tragedy, draped black cloth along the Champs-Elysees. Elsewhere, prayers substituted for parties in the final minutes of 2004.
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Accidents and violence stretch resources of emergency services during hectic new year period
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A death-like silence descended on Sri Lanka early Saturday as the country ushered in the New Year with prayers and mourning, six days after it lost nearly 30,000 people in its worst ever disaster.
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Normally exuberant New Year's  celebrations will be tempered by thoughts for victims of south  Asia's tsunami, as several cities worldwide cancel parties and  Australia hopes to lead a global minute of silence.
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Mourners in Indonesia, Australia and around the world have been remembering those who died in the Bali nightclub bombings exactly two years ago.
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Christians around the world have begun celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, with observances marking Christmas Eve. In Bethlehem, the town of Jesus&#39;s birth, Israel has relaxed travel restrictions
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The nations of the world joined Monday in solemn remembrance of Sept. 11 _ but for many, resentment of the United States flowed as readily as tears.