Revellers across UK welcome 2008
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Millions of people across the UK celebrate the New Year, with the biggest events in London and Edinburgh.
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A million revelers in Australia staked out prime spots along Sydney's iconic Harbor Bridge foreshore Monday, ushering in 2008 with a massive fireworks display
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Fireworks celebrations across the UK attract thousands of people on the eve of Diwali.
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Collectors can look ahead and back and shout "Happy New Year!" The old year was one of the most inclusive ever for coin enthusiasts with modest budgets but high levels of anticipation.
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Hundreds gathered in Birmingham yesterday to mark the 30th anniversary of one of Britain&#39;s most gruesome terrorist attacks, the bombing of two city centre pubs which killed 21 and seriously injured 160.
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More than a million people are expected to attend this weekend&#39;s Notting Hill Carnival in London, an annual extravaganza of Caribbean music and dance that is the biggest street party in Europe.
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With a large turnout on Monday's finale, more than a million revellers will have attended west London's Notting Hill Carnival, a three-day celebration of Caribbean culture and music, police say.
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The Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, and Prince Charles attend a gala performance at the Wales Millennium Centre.
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Celebrations to mark the centenary of the Entente Cordiale between Britain and France took a musical turn with a big concert in London bringing together stars from both sides of the Channel.
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British actor Rupert Everett and 250 men dressed as pop singer Kylie Minogue were among 8,000 revelers who marched through Sydney late Saturday for the 29th annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.
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A century after the first New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square, hundreds of thousands of revelers were returning to the "crossroads of the world" on Friday night to celebrate the start of 2005.
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Fun, fantasy, and new divisions highlight this British fair. Despite the lingering effects of an unprecedented three increases in mortgage rates in Great Britain last year, exhibitors at the semi-annual ...
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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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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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Visitors to the Route 66 festival on Saturday might have heard some English accents in the crowd.
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Crowds are expected to gather for the final day of London&#39;s Notting Hill Carnival on Monday, with police praising the behaviour of revellers so far.
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Britain will be celebrating its relationship with the sea with an exciting, year-long programme of events next year under the banner of SeaBritain 2005.