new year

More than one million people packed Australia's Sydney Harbor to welcome the New Year with dazzling fireworks and celebrations. In North America, hundreds of thousands of celebrants are expected to gather in New York's Times Square, where the iconic New Year's Eve Ball will sport energy efficient bulbs in an effort to "go green" and the midnight confetti will carry the wishes of people from around the globe. Organizers of the Times Square event set up an online "virtual wishing wall" where users could post messages to be printed on the multicolored confetti