Revelers celebrate New Year in Times Square as the ball drops in New York City. The Times Square Alliance estimated that one million people would attend the festivities in Times Square.. Hiroko Masuike/Getty Images
People enjoy the music during the Highlife New Years Experience at Matakana Country Park in Matakana, New Zealand.. Sandra Mu/Getty Images
Donna Stefans of Melville, NY, lies on the ground covered with confetti in Times Square moments after midnight during New York Eve’s celebration. Hiroko Masuike/Getty Images
Five hundred thousand people braved freezing conditions to see in the New Year on the River Thames next to the London Eye observation wheel and Big Ben.. Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images
Hundreds of people queue up at the booth of Richard Visser in Rotterdam, on December 31, 2008 to buy their ‘oliebollen’, the Dutch traditional fried pastry made for New Years’ Eve.. ROBIN UTRECHT/AFP/Getty Images
Fireworks explode over the Quadriga sculpture on the Brandenburg Gate in celebration of the new year in Berlin, Germany. An estimated 1 million revelers descended on the area in front of the Brandenburg Gate to celebrate.. Sean Gallup/Getty Images
The crowd at the Travis Barker and DJ-AM (Adam Goldstein) performance at the New Year’s Nation national New Year’s Eve celebration at The Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles, California. The performance was broadcast live to nine other New Year’s Nation parties in New York, Las Vegas, Seattle, Portland, Dallas, Denver, Minneapolis, Atlanta and Philadelphia, and streamed live on the internet.. Frank Micelotta/Getty Images
Thousands of Sydney residents arrive at Mrs Macquaries Point to view the annual New Year’s Eve Sydney Harbour fireworks display in Sydney, Australia. The 2008 into 2009 theme was ‘Creation’.. Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images
New Years Eve crowds line Westminster Bridge before a firework display at midnight in England.. Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images
The New Year’s Eve fireworks based on the Aboriginal theme ‘Creation Storm’ engulf the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Over 1.5 million Sydneysiders and tourists lined the harbour foreshores to watch 120,000 pyrotechnics usher in the new year.. TORSTEN BLACKWOOD/AFP/Getty Images
A couple share a kiss at the stroke of midnight during the Highlife New Years Experience at Matakana Country park in Matakana, New Zealand.. Sandra Mu/Getty Images
Confetti floats over Times Square after midnight during New York Eve’s celebration in New York City.. Hiroko Masuike/Getty Images
