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New Year’s Celebrations
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December 31, 2012, 11:15 AM
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Countries across the world ring in the new year with celebrations and fireworks.
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Britain NewYear 2013
Katy Saunders, left, Alex Mueller, center left, Rebekka Frank and Arina Motamedi, right, play with sparklers ahead of welcoming in the new year during the 2013 Edinburgh Hogmanay celebrations, Scotland, Monday December 31, 2012.(AP Photo/PA,Danny Lawson)
AP Photo/PA,Danny Lawson
Singapore New Year
A couple are silhouetted as fireworks explode over the Singapore financial district to mark the start of the new year on Tuesday Jan. 1, 2013 in Singapore. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
AP Photo/Wong Maye-E
Singapore New Year
Performers react as fireworks explode over the Singapore financial district to mark the start of the new year on Tuesday Jan. 1, 2013 in Singapore. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
AP Photo/Wong Maye-E
Myanmar New Year
Merry makers cheer as they welcome the 2013 New Year, at the first ever public New Year Countdown cerebration at Myoma grounds in Yangon, Mayanmar, Monday, Dec.31, 2012. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)
AP Photo/Khin Maung Win
Indonesia New Year
Thousands of people flock to the main business district on New Year's eve in Jakarta, Indonesia, late Monday, Dec. 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
Indonesia New Year
Indonesians watch firework explode on New Year's eve in Jakarta, Indonesia, late Monday, Dec. 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
AP Photo/Dita Alangkara
New Years Celebrations
People who arrived Monday morning Dec. 31, 2012, line a front row spot to watch the ball drop in Times Square in New York. An estimated 1 million people were expected to cram into district to see the crystal ball drop and countdown to 2013, organizers said. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
AP Photo/Seth Wenig
Singapore New Year
A man is silhouetted as firework explode over the Singapore financial district to mark the start of the new year on Tuesday Jan. 1, 2013 in Singapore. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
AP Photo/Wong Maye-E
Japan New Year
A buddhist monk prays during a New Year ceremony at Zojoji temple in Tokyo, Monday, Dec. 31, 2012.(AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)
Australia Sydney New Year
Fireworks explode over Sydney Harbour bridge during the New Year celebrations in Sydney, Australia, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013.(AP Photo/Rob Griffith)
India New Year
Indian people look at the sand sculpture for the new year 2013 created by sand artist Sudarshan Pattnaik at the Puri sea beach, 67 kilometers (42 miles) away from the eastern Indian city Bhubaneswar, India, Monday, Dec. 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Biswaranjan Rout)
Philippines New Year
A Filipino boy looks as his mother tests a paper horn in downtown Manila, Philippines on Monday Dec. 31, 2012. Despite a ban by authorities on certain firecrackers due to injuries and death, many Filipinos still welcome the New Year with fireworks in the belief that it will drive away evil spirits and bring in good luck. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
India New Year
Tourists pose as they carry umbrellas with numbers to welcome the New Year 2013 on the terrace of a hotel in the backdrop of Taj Mahal in Agra, India, Monday, Dec. 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Pawan Sharma)
AP Photo/Pawan Sharma
Australia Sydney New Year
Fireworks explode behind the Opera House during the New Year celebrations in Sydney, Australia, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013.(AP Photo/Rob Griffith)
AP Photo/Rob Griffith
Gary Marion
In this photo provided by the Florida Keys News Bureau, Gary Marion, a female impersonator known as Sushi, hangs in an oversized replica of a women's red high heel over Duval Street, late Monday, Dec. 31, 2012, at the Bourbon Street Pub Complex in Key West, Fla. The Red Shoe Drop has become a Key West tradition and is one of five Florida Keys warm-weather takeoffs on New York City's Times Square ball drop marking the beginning of the new year. (AP Photo/Florida Keys News Bureau, Andy Newman)
AP Photo/Florida Keys News Bureau, Andy Newman
APTOPIX Germany Berlin New Year's Celebrations
Fireworks explode in the sky above the Quadriga on the Brandenburg Gate during the New Year's celebrations in Berlin, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
AP Photo/Markus Schreiber
New Years Celebrations
Confetti flies over New York's Times Square after the clock strikes midnight during the New Year's Eve celebration as seen from the Marriott Marquis hotel Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013 in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
AP Photo/Mary Altaffer
New Years Celebrations
Revelers cheer in Times Square at midnight on New Years Tuesday Jan. 1, 2013, in New York. With fireworks, concerts and celebrations from Hong Kong to New York, revelers welcome 2013 with hope for a better future after a year that thudded to a close with a disastrous storm, gun violence, and talk of economic turmoil from a looming fiscal cliff. This will be the first Times Square countdown in decades without Dick Clark, who died in April, and will be honored with a tribute concert and his name printed on pieces of confetti. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
AP Photo/John Minchillo
New Years Celebrations
Revelers gather at Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto to celebrate New Year's Eve on Monday, Dec. 31, 2012. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Michelle Siu)
AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Michelle Siu
Michael Bloomberg
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg dances with the Radio City Rockettes in Times Square during New Year's celebrations on Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013 in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP
New Years Celebrations
Thomas Hayes, right, and his girlfriend Jenna Corby, second from right, both from Lyndhurst N.J., share a kiss, as Min Song, center, and her daughter Jiang Yu Zhuo, second from left, both from China, hug as they and others celebrate the new year shortly after midnight in New York's Times Square Tuesday Jan. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)
AP Photo/Tina Fineberg
Mideast Israel Palestinians New Year's Celebrations
An Arab boy releases a hot air paper made balloon into the air during the New Year's celebrations near the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth, northern Israel, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
AP Photo/Ariel Schalit
France New Year's Celebrations
Revelers celebrate the New Year on the Champs Elysee in Paris, Tuesday Jan. 1, 2013.(AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)
AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere
Britain New Year's Celebrations
Fireworks explode over Elizabeth Tower housing the Big Ben clock to celebrate the New Year in London, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth
Mideast Lebanon New Year's Celebrations
Lebanese revelers celebrate the New Year during a countdown event in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
AP Photo/Bilal Hussein
Poland Warsaw New Year's Celebrations
Fireworks explode in the sky during the New Year's celebrations in Warsaw, Poland, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski
Russia New Year Celebrations
People gather at a New Year tree, in front of a mosque, in a square decorated for New Year celebrations in Chechnya's provincial capital Grozny, southern Russia, Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev)
AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev
Peru New Year
Shaman Yessy, right, performs a New Year's ritual to bring good luck to her client in the coming year, at the Market of Wishes in Lima, Peru, Monday, Dec. 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
AP Photo/Martin Mejia
New Years Celebrations
Benjamin Nadorf, 4, fools around with his new glasses while waiting for the New Year in Times Square in New York, Monday, Dec. 31, 2012. One million people are expected to cram into the area for the countdown(AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
AP Photo/Seth Wenig
Philippines New Year
Fireworks light up the sky to welcome the New Year Tuesday January 1, 2013 at the scenic Manila Bay in Manila, Philippines. The Philippine government has been vigorously campaigning against the use of firecrackers which often result in injuries and deaths. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
AP Photo/Bullit Marquez
Malaysia New Year
A man poses for a photo behind a giant 2013 in 3D shape during New Year celebrations in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013. (AP Photo)
China New Year
Chinese people wave national flags as they celebrate the New Year during a count-down event at the Summer Palace in Beijing Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
AP Photo/Andy Wong
North Korea New Year
North Koreans play with a balloon as they wait outside Pyongyang stadium for the countdown to the new year on Monday, Dec. 31, 2012 , Pyongyang, North Korea. North Koreans celebrated the arrival of the new year, marked as "Juche 102" on North Korean calendars. "Juche" means "self reliance," the North Korean ideology of independence promoted by North Korean founder Kim Il Sung, and modern-day North Korean calendars start with the year of his birth in 1912. (AP Photo/Kim Kwang Hyon)
AP Photo/Kim Kwang Hyon
China New Year
The pavilion of the Summer Palace is illuminated with lights and the words "Happy New Year" during a count-down event in Beijing Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
AP Photo/Andy Wong
China New Year
Chinese revelers celebrate the new year during a count-down event at the Summer Palace in Beijing Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
AP Photo/Andy Wong
Afghanistan New Year
Soldiers and service members with the NATO- led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) cheer as the celebrate the New Year eve at the NATO's headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Dec. 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq
India New Year
A woman with her daughter walks in a decorated street with lights to celebrate the New Year in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013.(AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
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