White Roses, Candles Bring in Solemn New Year
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People held candles and white roses on the tsunami-hit island of Phuket, tearfully embracing as they grieved, in a poignant symbol of the mood which darkened New Year celebrations across the globe.
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Pope John Paul II ushered in the Christmas holiday today, lighting a candle for peace in his window before celebrating midnight Mass in a new test of the 84-year-old pontiffâs frail health.
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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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Politics: 31 December 2004, Friday. Citizens of Sofia will celebrate on the streets of the city the coming of the New Year.
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As generous as their employers have been in laying on New Year's treats, China's migrants just want to go home for the holidays
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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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Conventional wisdom suggests that dying patients will cling to life if a holiday, such as Christmas, a birthday or a cherished anniversary is near.
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There's a place for charity amid the flowers, the band, and the giant cake.
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The New Year's Eve celebrations in the small community of Paraiba do Sul will honor a figure the town's mayor says hasn't been honored anywhere else in the West &#151; the late Yasser Arafat.
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On Francois Mitterrand's grave,  one wreath stands out among those marking last month's  anniversary of his death. Bigger than all others, it is made up  of dozens of roses and a label saying simply "Segolene Royal."
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Prayers and candlelight vigils were substituted for parties across Asia, while Paris draped black cloths along the Champs-Elysees. Revelers in New York's Times Square marked a moment of silence as the world brought in the New Year mourning the victims of devastating tsunamis.
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The makeshift memorials of flowers, candles and children's drawings are gone. So are the black ribbons that hung from balconies and windows as symbols of mourning from one hellish day.
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Asians burned incense in temples thick with clouds of eye-stinging smoke and gathered for feasts of chicken, hot pots and dumplings Sunday as they celebrated the first day of the Lunar New Year, ushering in the Year of the Pig.
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The deadline for the removal of colorful flower decals from the city taxis was midnight of the new year, but the art is still seen around New York. Next up for the floral paintings: New Orleans.
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A traditional rite of spring, setting the clocks forward, comes early this year.
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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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It wasn't exactly traditional, but it got to the heart of the holiday.