1. Picture News New Year’s Around The Globe
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that started the year for 2009

2. Sampson, a New York Police Department police dog, stands watch near Times Square as thousands of people gather to celebrate New Year's.

3. Tourists and local Thais pray above lit candles in Patong, Thailand
Tourists and local Thais pray above lit candles in Patong, Thailand. Patong beach was devastated by last week's tsunami.

4. Fireworks explode above Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro at the stroke of midnight. More than two million people gathered along Brazil's most famous beach to witness the display and celebrate the beginning of a new year.

5. Christian and Simon Decher raise their glasses during New Year's celebrations near the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, on Friday. About one million people joined the festivities in Germany's capital.

6. Tens of thousands of Russians gather in Moscow's Red Square to ring in 2005 near Basil's Cathedral, left, and the Kremlin's Spasky tower.

7. A Catholic Sri Lankan woman prays before a memorial service for tsunami victims held on New Year's Eve at St. Mary's Church in Galle, Sri Lanka. Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim and Christian clergy led prayers for victims and survivors of the disaster.

8. Thousands of people mark New Year's at the landmark fountain in downtown Jakarta, Indonesia, on Saturday.

9. People gathered along Patpong's nightclub strip in Phuket, Thailand, mourn loved ones lost in last Sunday's tsunami. Patpong was one of the worst-hit beaches on the resort island of Phuket.

10. Col. Tom Mackenzie dances with Sgt. Larissa Copeland of the U. S
Col. Tom Mackenzie dances with Sgt. Larissa Copeland of the U.S. Combined Forces Command during a New Year's celebration at their base in Kabul, Afghanistan early on Saturday.

11. Stock trader David Hoster stands in a confetti shower at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange on Friday. Traders and clerks traditionally toss confetti at the closing bell to signify the end of the trading year.

12. Revelers celebrate as confetti falls in Times Square in New York City
Revelers celebrate as confetti falls in Times Square in New York City. Over 1 million people were expected to attend the festivities.

13. The year's first sunrise breaks behind a damaged seacoast in Port Blair, the main city of India's remote Andaman and Nicobar archipelago