New Year 2012 Celebrations, Fireworks, Kisses and Blessings - Photos

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2012: Marking the New Year

Around the world people celebrated with fireworks, kisses, blessings, gatherings, cheers, watching the sunrise and plunges into icy bodies of water to welcome in a new year. Here’s a look back at how some of them marked the transition. — Lloyd Young (41 photos total)

1- Pakistani civil rights activists shout slogans in a peace rally to mark the New Year in Lahore on Jan. 1, 2012. Three people were killed and at least 60 wounded by stray bullets in the port city of Karachi today as Pakistanis celebrated the new year by firing their guns into the air, police said.

2- Fireworks explode in the sky over Bucharest, Romania, at midnight, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012, during street celebrations of the new year. Large crowds gathered downtown Romania’s capital taking advantage of the dry weather to attend the celebrations.

3- Steve Macwithey kisses Lauren Macwithey in Times Square during a celebration to mark the start of the new year in New York, Jan. 1, 2012.

4- The historic riflemen corps fire gun salutes to welcome the new year on Jan. 1, 2012 in Villingen-Schwenningen in the Black Forest, southern Germany. The traditional shooting has taken place for the first time in the year 1633.

5- A long time exposure shows Filipino youths creating “2012” to bring in the New Year with sparklers at a public park in Manila. Filipinos welcomed in the New Year with fireworks and celebrations.

6- Family members raise their hands to receive the first sunrays of 2012 in Cancun, Mexico, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012.

7-Malaysians react as they watch fireworks explode during New Year celebrations at Independence Square in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012.

8-Patty Pique, of Jackson, Tenn., comes to Peach Drop 2012 to celebrate their New Year’s Eve at Underground Atlanta, Dec. 31, 2011, in Atlanta.

9-Wishes for 2012 written on confetti that will be released in New York’s Times Square during the New Year celebration are on display at the Times Square visitor center, Thursday, Dec. 29, 2011 in New York. The Times Square Alliance conducted it’s airworthiness test Thursday in preparation for the release of one ton of confetti by hand from various buildings in Times Square at midnight on New YearÃŒs Eve.

10-Revelers cheer behind police barricades in Times Square in anticipation of midnight on New Year’s Eve, Saturday, Dec. 31, 2011, in New York. Some revelers, wearing party hats and “2012” glasses, began camping out Saturday morning, as workers readied bags stuffed with hundreds of balloons and technicians put colored filters on klieg lights.

11-Workman begin the task of cleaning up after thousands of revelers gathered in New York’s Times Square to celebrate the ball drop at the annual New Years Eve celebration on Dec. 31, 2011 in New York City.

12-Fireworks light up the London skyline and Big Ben just after midnight on Jan. 1, 2012 in London, England. Thousands of people lined the banks of the River Thames in central London to see in the New Year with a spectacular fireworks display.

13-Fireworks explode over the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Opera House during a pyrotechnic show to celebrate the New Year Jan. 1, 2012.

14-Fireworks light the sky above the Quadriga at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin shortly after midnight, greeting the New Year, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012. Hundred thousands of people celebrated the beginning of the New Year 2012 in Germany’s capital.

15-People gather to celebrate the new year 2012 at the Temple of Heaven, the city’s historic landmark in Beijing on Jan. 1, 2012. Spectacular fireworks and crowded parties will ring in the New Year for people around the world, as billions mark the end of 2011 with noisy celebrations from Sydney to Stockholm.

16-Confetti drops as a Filipino blows his paper horn as they welcome the New Year at Manila’s Rizal Park, Philippines on Sunday Jan. 1, 2012. More than 200 people have been injured by illegal firecrackers and celebratory gunfire in the Philippines despite a government campaign against reckless New Year revelries, officials recently said.

17-A Pakistani barber gives a 2012 hair cut on a man to celebrate New Year at a barber shop in Rawalpindi, on Dec. 31, 2011.

18-A friend pours Jon Knebel, of Iowa City, Iowa, a glass of champagne at Airliner in Iowa City on Jan. 1, 2011.

19-People dance during New Year’s celebrations in Madrid, Spain, Jan. 1, 2012.

20-A couple stands in a doorway at sunrise wearing fancy dress following New Year celebrations, in Pamplona northern Spain, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012.

21-People gather on Red Square to celebrate the New Year Day in Moscow, January 1, 2012.

22-Vikings lead the torchlight procession as it makes its way along Princess Street for the start of the New Year celebrations Dec. 30, 2011 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Thousands of people joined in the torchlight procession, followed by the burning of a Viking long ship, to mark the start of Edinburgh’s Hogmanay celebrations.

23-Artists perform in the streets of Johannesburg on Dec. 31, 2011 during the New Year’s carnival.

24-People make offerings to Yemanja, the Goddess of the Sea of the Afro-American religion Umbanda, on Dec. 31, 2011 at a Paranoa Lake beach in BrasiÂ¨-lia. Hundreds of worshippers are gathering at this place of the Brazilian capital to make their offerings and pray for the new year.

25-Young Sri Lankan boys play with firecrackers on the eve of the New Year, as the sun sets in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, Dec. 31, 2011.

26-Sri Lankan Buddhist devotee offers prayers at a Kelaniya Temple in Kelaniya on Jan. 1, 2012. Many Sri Lankans marked the beginning of the New Year with religious ceremonies.

27-Marco Fois of Italy dives into Rome’s river Tiber as part of traditional New Year celebrations on Jan. 1, 2011. Divers jump from the Cavour bridge, continuing an annual tradition which dates back to 1946.

28-Hardy Dutch swimmers brave the icy North Sea on Jan. 1, 2012 in Scheveningen, Netherlands. A record number of 10,000 people took the plunge in this year’s traditional New Year’s dip. The high turnout was attributed to the mild weather with a sea temperature of 8 degrees compared to 4 degrees last year.

29-A man takes part in the annual Coney Island Polar Bear Club New Year’s Day swim at Coney Island on Jan. 1, 2012 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. The Coney Island Polar Bear Club claims to be the oldest winter bathing organization in the U.S. and attracts hundreds to the beach for the annual swim in the Atlantic Ocean.

30-Chinese winter swimmers perform a dragon dance on a frozen lake to celebrate the New Year in Shenyang in northeast China’s Liaoning province, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012.

31-Revelers run into English Bay during the annual New Year’s Day Polar Bear Swim in Vancouver, British Columbia on Jan. 1, 2012.

32-A couple kiss during the New Year’s Day Looney Dook swim at South Queensferry in Scotland Jan. 1, 2012.

33-NATO troops from the U.S.-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) celebrate New Year’s Eve in Kabul Dec. 31, 2011.

34-A shaman performs a ritual for good luck in 2012 as he prays in front of an image of Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez in Lima, Peru, Thursday Dec. 29, 2011. Fernandez was diagnosed with treatable thyroid cancer on Tuesday, and will undergo surgery on Jan. 4.

35-Children of migrant workers lie on the snow to form the number “2012” while celebrating the coming new year in front of a snow sculpture in Harbin, in northeastern China’s Heilongjiang province, Friday, Dec. 30, 2011.

36-A man lights an Old Man effigy which symbolizes burning the past and getting ready to start a happy New Year without bad memories of the past in Mumbai, India, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012.

37-The New Year sunrise lights up an area devastated by the March 2011 tsunami in Kesennuma, Miyagi prefecture, in this photo taken by Kyodo on Jan 1, 2012. The tsunami reached three-fourths of the height of the tower seen in the center.

38-A young girl from the Gurung community attired in festive clothing participates in a parade to mark Tamu Loshar, or New Year of the Gurung community, in Katmandu, Nepal, Friday, Dec. 30, 2011.

39-Confetti pours from volunteers on the second floor of the Creative Discovery falls onto the several hundred children crowded together to celebrated the turning of a new year during the New Year’s at Noon celebration at the museum, Saturday, Dec. 31, 2011, in Chattanooga Tenn.

40-In a Sunday, Jan. 1, 2011 photo, Jolene Anthony (left) holds her daughter, Kylee, while her husband, John Anthony, holds their son, John, at Rapid City Regional Hospital in Rapid City, S.D.. Baby John was the first baby of the new year at the hospital while his sister was the last baby of 2011.