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I remember many New Year's Eves in crowded bars, complete with anonymous hugs from drunken strangers. People bellow out the words of Auld Lang Syne as part of the midnight ritual. "We'll have a friendly drink for old time's sake", roughly translates the most famous lines of the song from Robert Burns' Scots dialect.
In Peru, New Year's Eve is not only about the party, it's about making sure you start 2013 with the right food to eat. Don't be surprised if after midnight you start seeing people running around the block with a suitcase - they aren't lost - it's one of our several New Year's rituals.
Happy New Year 2012! Or not? For many in Europe 2012 is set to, once again, be a year of insecurity. Will the euro survive? Will there be another Greece? How safe are we actually all?
Even though I'm about as good as it gets, I realised that it is about that time of year to start thinking about how to better myself in the coming 12 months. I've drawn up three for now, let me know yours in the comments section.
Hundreds of thousands of people lined the streets of the capital today to watch the New Year's Day Parade celebrating the start of the Olympic year. ...
People around the world are celebrating the start of the New Year, bidding farewell to 2011 and welcoming the start of 2012. In Australia, more tha...
Stuart Hall, the sports commentator who famously presented popular TV show “It’s a Knockout” in the 1980s, is among those awarded an OBE on the ...
