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While the majority of people in Germany has gone to bed, in New York about a million people celebrating in Times Square. At midnight (6 clock CET), the famous crystal ball dropped to the cheers of the crowd. Pop star Lady Gaga was allowed as this year's guest of honor, press the button that started the huge ball over the heads of the audience moving. The stop of the glitter ball after 60 seconds from standing for the old year, the beginning of 2012. The event was broadcast on television in nearly all U.S. households.
Hundreds of thousands in Times Square and the surrounding canyons voted under a thick rain of confetti to the Sinatra song "New York, New York" on. The visitors in the side streets, the bustle observed in the square on giant screens. At midnight, they joined the welcoming cheers in 2012 to.
"It is so incredible here," Lady Gaga breathed taken into the microphone. Mayor Michael Bloomberg had invited the New York pop singer for the New Year's Eve party to be in the stands. Gaga wore a bright narrow silver evening dress with rhinestone spaghetti straps. Her face was of an oversized silver mask covered.
According to the city, the New Year's Eve party stretched back more than 17 city blocks in Manhattan's theater district. On the streets of firecrackers were banned as well as champagne or mulled wine. But the weather had mercy: the temperatures were in the night at about ten degrees Celsius.
Fearing terrorist attacks, thousands more police officers were deployed in Times Square. After the ceremony came Occupy "activists returned to the place near Wall Street, the city had to be cleared in November.
Colorful fireworks and wild parties also provided on the remaining continents for a joyous ringing in the new year: 2012 is here. Billion people around the world celebrated the new year and thoroughly happy. As the first inhabitants of Samoa, Tokelau and the Line Islands in the Pacific in 2011 were behind him. Then the people celebrated in Sydney, Beijing and Moscow New Year - also in Germany before popping the champagne corks and the fireworks exploded.
At the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, at Germany's biggest New Year's Eve party, hundreds of thousands cheered a spectacular fireworks display. Smiling man lying in the arms and toasted with champagne in plastic cups to 2012. Meanwhile, the Scorpions swept with "Rock You Like a Hurricane" on the stage.
A few hours earlier had visitors from all over the streets of the 17th June turned into a cauldron. Omitted danced, sang and danced to the songs of German and international stars, who took turns on the huge main stage. Among others, the Hermes House Band and DJ Otzi, Marianne Rosenberg, Udo Jürgens and the party people a strongly heated.
The organizers had created for the New Year's Eve party, a spectacular setting: In the sky showed tremendous light cone visitors the way, video columns and numerous outdoor disco lights that appeared in the right light. Pressed on the road about two kilometers long party between the Brandenburg Gate and Victory Column, people - just before 23.00 clock, the police: "It no longer comes to the hard miles."
Significantly earlier than in Germany - at 11:00 CET - welcomed the approximately 200,000 residents of Samoa, Tokelau and the Line Islands in the Pacific in 2012. For Samoa and New Zealand belong to the Tokelau Islands were, however, need to write contemporary history: they were previously to the last, who welcomed a new year. But now they were the 30th December all of the first and popped the champagne corks.
The Australians enjoyed the spectacular fireworks display in Sydney at a starry sky. In New Zealand, people had less luck: Violent winds and heavy rain spoiled the mood. At a concert under the stars in the mud slipped even more people and injured some seriously. Better was it for the revelers in Moscow. On the famous Red Square, many people welcomed the new year, while the missiles exploded in the sky for several minutes. Also in Istanbul and Ankara, singing and dancing, revelers in the streets.
In Japan, the people celebrated with bells after a year of terrible natural and nuclear disasters, the beginning of the "Year of the Dragon." Millions of visitors poured into the New Year's night in the temples and shrines of the island kingdom, to ask the gods for blessings and better times. To midnight rang out across the country for miles heard the bells 108 times the sanctuaries. They should sell the 108 desires of the people or the 108 evils of the old year.
The city of Beijing, welcomed the new year with a countdown at the Temple of Heaven. The final seconds of the year 2011 were projected at the end of a laser show at the 600-year-old landmark of the Chinese capital. The Beijing citizens, however, were not invited because the Chinese communist leadership feared any accumulation of masses as incalculable security risk. Only a few VIP guests were allowed to be there live at temperatures just below zero degrees Celsius.
In London but like in every year, the largest New Year's Eve party on the Thames near the London Eye and Big Ben. The ten-minute fireworks display with music accompaniment will be allowed to see up close some 250 000 people - who wanted a place, had to be there early. The Trafalgar Square in the heart of the city is a popular destination for the toast at midnight. On the Champs-Elysees was crowded with hundreds of thousands.
Carnival mood beneath Sugar Loaf: On Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro and in the largest Brazilian city of Sao Paulo million people welcomed the new year.
