World Welcomes New Year
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Across the globe, people gathered for parties, shot off fireworks and held out hopes for a peaceful and prosperous 2008
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Text of President Bush's New Year's Day 2005 message:
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A century after the first New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square, thousands of revelers crowded the streets and sidewalks Friday to welcome 2005, even as the world mourned the devastation of the South Asian tsunami.
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Summer solstice at Stonehenge, a graduation hug for the President, Mount Merapi gushes, and the World Cup floats
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It's nice to sail into a new year being at peace with the world. The trick is getting that feeling to last. Commentary by Tony Long.
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Normally exuberant New Year celebrations  were tempered by thoughts for victims of south Asia's tsunami  as several major cities canceled parties and Australia led a  global minute of silence.
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We live in interesting times. We live in the land of champions. On this first day of 2008, let's look ahead to some stories we'll be reading in the new year . . .
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Business: 28 December 2004, Tuesday. Most of Bulgaria's holiday-makers abroad have chosen Turkey as their New Year's Eve destination, a Bulgarian newspaper wrote.
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People around the world are coming together to celebrate the world wide web and its impact on people.
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Lifestyle: 3 January 2005, Monday. A gigantic rooster made of ice perched in the central square in Lithuania's capital Vilnius to celebrate the incoming New Year, which according to the Chinese calendar is the ...
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There's nothing like a fresh start. Just ask the 69 percent of Americans who are prompted by the new year to try to improve their lives. If this year is anything like last, weight loss and exercise will again top the list of New Year's resolutions, according to a recent national telephone poll co...
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SINGAPORE (Reuters Life!) - Fireworks and red lanterns mark the Lunar New Year across Asia, but the festivities herald abalone poaching season in Australia and New Zealand.
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It was something not seen in Baghdad since before the 2003 invasion Â people publicly welcoming a new year with singing, dancing and alcohol-fueled revelry. The ballrooms of two landmark hotels Â the Palestine and the Sheraton Â were full of people for the first New Year's Eve celebrations after four years of violence that has bloodied Iraq.
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American consumers will greet the new year in a good mood, the latest measure of consumer sentiment shows. The Conference Board&#39;s index of consumer confidence jumped to a five-month high of 102.3 in December
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With the New Year just around the corner, the   market will be flooded with calendars of various   sizes and shapes. This time, it's not just sizes   and shapes, but also cool concepts as well.
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BETHLEHEM, West Bank  - Hundreds of millions around the world prepared Friday to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, a Christmas festival of religious joy for many and commercial excess for others, against a backdrop of continuing global security
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Millions are travelling home for Chinese New Year in what is called the world's biggest human migration.