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New Year's celebrations around the world
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Fireworks flash over Sydney Harbor during New Year celebrations, Friday, Jan. 1, 2010. The annual fireworks extravaganza over the city's landmark harbor bridge and opera house are the centerpiece of Australia's celebrations. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
Fireworks flash over Sydney Harbor during New Year celebrations, Friday, Jan. 1, 2010. The annual fireworks extravaganza over the city's landmark harbor bridge and opera house are the centerpiece of Australia's celebrations. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
People set balloons free to celebrate the New Year at Zojoji Buddhist temple in Tokyo, early Friday, Jan. 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
Pakistani children write on the sand as the sun sets at Clifton beach in Karachi, Pakistan on Thursday, Dec. 31, 2009. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)
Revelers celebrate the 2010 New Year countdown event in Hong Kong Thursday, Dec.31, 2009. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Fireworks explode at the International Finance Centre buildings over Victoria Harbor in Hong Kong to celebrate the 2010 New Year on Friday, Jan. 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Confetti flies during New Year's celebrations outside a shopping mall in Beijing, China on Friday, Jan. 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
People strike a bell at a temple to celebrate the New Year on the New Year's Eve in Beijing, China, Friday, Jan. 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)
Revelers spray artificial snow during New Year's Eve celebrations in downtown Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2009. (AP Photo)
Fireworks light up the skyline of the financial district to usher in the New Year in Singapore on Jan. 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
Fireworks explode above downtown Jakarta's Welcome Monument in Indonesia early Friday, Jan. 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)
People gather in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, to see in the New Year on Thursday, Dec. 31, 2009. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer)
Best friends Samantha Walker, left, and Makenzie Pickett, both 10, blow their noisemakers in a shower of confetti and balloons during the Happy Noon Year event at the Children's Museum of Illinois Thursday, Dec. 31, 2009, in Decatur, Ill. (AP Photo/ Decatur Herald & Review, Stephen Haas)
New Year revellers gather on Princes Street ahead of the party to celebrate New Year on Thursday in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is expected that around eighty thousand people will attend the festivities in Scotland's capital. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
Fireworks explode in the foggy night sky above the Benjamin Franklin Bridge during a New Years celebration, Thursday evening, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
A Bengal tiger looks undisturb as a group of children blow paper horns to call his attention on New Year's eve on Thursday, at a zoo in suburban Malabon City, north of Manila, Philippines. The coming year 2010 falls on the Year of the Tiger in Chinese calendar. (AP Photo/Pat Roque)
A girl wears "2010" glasses in Times Square on Thursday in New York City. Security is tight amid preparations for the annual New Years Eve ball drop. (Photo by Brian Harkin/Getty Images)
People click their glasses in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin shortly after midnight, greeting the New Year, Friday, Jan. 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer)
