Ready For New Year's

Workers decorate a New Year tree on Cathedral Square at the Kremlin in Moscow on Dec. 20, 2006. The 110-year-old tree was cut in the Vologda region, north of Moscow.

Father Frost delivers a speech in Moscow's Red Square on Dec. 27, 2006. His appearance is part of Moscow's festivities for the New Year and the Orthodox Christmas, which Russians celebrate on Jan. 7.

Broadway, left, and Seventh Avenue meet in Times Square as seen from One Times Square, Dec. 27, 2006, in New York. Preparations are under way for the traditional New Year's Eve celebration there.

Eddie Rodriguez, left, and Alberto Ibanez attach two of 72 new Waterford Crystal triangles on the exterior of the Times Square New Year's Eve ball, Dec. 27, 2006, on the rooftop of One Times Square in New York. A total of 504 crystal triangles cover the 1,070-pound lighted ball, which traditionally is dropped down a pole to mark the New Year.

Workmen place a seven-foot-tall numeral 7 to complete the "2007" sign in New York's Times Square. The completed sign will be lifted to the top of One Times Square before the annual ball drop at midnight on New Year's Eve.

Jeff Straus, left, and Tim Tompkins, co-producers of New Year's Eve Times Square, throw confetti during an "air worthiness test" of the confetti used for the celebration in Times Square on New Year's Eve Friday, Dec. 29, 2006 in New York.

Rapper Busta Rhymes performs at the taping of BET's 106 & Park's New Year's Eve celebration on Dec. 19, 2006, in New York.

In preparation for the New Year celebration, a colorful mural fantasy decorates buildings in downtown Budapest next to the Danube River, Dec. 28, 2006. A laser light project by Hungarian artist Dora Berkes appears on the facade and nearby surfaces of the square.

Geisha girls clad in kimonos admire hagoita (wooden battledores or bats similiar to those used in badminton) at Sensoji temple in Tokyo, Japan, during a preview of the three-day annual games held Dec. 16, 2006. The hagoita is used for a traditional game played by women during New Year celebrations.

Indian-born conductor Zubin Mehta gestures during a rehearsal with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for the 2007 New Year's Concert Dec. 28, 2006, in Vienna, Austria.

Department store visitors look at a huge New Year's cake on display in Ukraine's capital Kiev, Friday, Dec. 29, 2006.

Daniella Zubiria, 16, left, from the Fort Myers High School Greenwave Band of Florida, practices at Marble Arch, London, on Thursday, Dec. 28, 2006. Her band's members are among more than 1,000 performers who will take part in the annual New Year's Day parade through London.

Sarah Coon, 18, of the Fort Myers High School Greenwave Band of Florida, practices at Marble Arch, London, on Thursday, Dec. 28, 2006.

Band director Dr. Larry Pannell, with Louisiana Grambling State University, plays the clarinet with his marching band as they practice for the 2007 Rose Parade at the Marantha High School campus in Pasadena, Calif., on Thursday, Dec. 28, 2006. The Grambling State University Tiger Marching Band will perform music from the "Star Wars" films on New Year's Day.

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