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Chinese New Year Animals: It's the Year of the Rabbit Now, but What Creature's Next?
By Steven Hoffer - AOL NewsBreak out the fireworks, today is the Chinese New Year! All over the world, people are celebrating the Year of the Rabbit's arrival on the Chinese calendar with traditional parades, festivals and food. The Year of the Rabbit is associated with tranquility, and individuals born under the sign -- Albert Einstein, Frank Sinatra and Johnny Depp, just to name a few -- are said to be gentle, wise and strong-willed. But what about the animal sign for the Chinese New Year beginning in 2012? Next up is the Year of the Dragon, which will span Jan. 23, 2012, through Feb. 9, 2013. Occupying the ...
Scuba Divers Celebrate a 'Hoppy New Year' in Bunny Suits
By Ben Muessig - AOL NewsThere are bunny ears, and then there are bunny years. We're just days into 2011, and there's already another New Year's on the horizon: The Year of the Rabbit. On the Chinese zodiac calendar, Feb. 3 marks the end of the Year of the Tiger and the start of the Year of the Rabbit. And even though New Year's Day is still a month away, it seems like some people are already getting the party hopping. ...
All Around the World, Partiers Usher In 2011
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW YORK -- Revelers smooched and cheered the famous ball drop in New York's Times Square as the largest New Year's Eve celebration in the U.S. ushered in 2011. Most tried to set aside concerns about the worldwide economic downturn as partiers from New Zealand to Asia to Europe toasted to hopes of a more prosperous year to come. In New York, as many as a million people braved tight security and chilly temperatures Friday night to take part in the storied Times Square New Year's celebration, first begun in 1904. Crowds counted down to midnight as the glowing 6-ton Waterford Crystal ball ...
New Year's Eve in Pictures [PHOTO GALLERY]
By not in system - AOL Newshttp://xml.channel.aol.com/xmlpublisher/fetch.v2.xml?option=expand_relative_urls&dataUrlNodes=uiConfig,feedConfig,localizationConfig,entry&id=969223&pid=969222&uts=1293745636 http://www.aolcdn.com/ke/media_gallery/v1/ke_media_gallery_wrapper.swf New Years Eve 2011 EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND - DECEMBER 30: Men dressed as Vikings lead the torchlight procession as it makes its way along Princess Street for the start of the New Year celebrations December 30, 2010 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Thousands of people joined in the torchlight procession, ...
FBI: No Known Terror Plots Aimed at Times Square on New Year's Eve
By Allan Lengel - AOL NewsWith just hours to go before the ball drops, the FBI in New York says it knows of no credible terrorist threats involving the traditional New Year's Eve celebration in Manhattan's famed Times Square. "While there's no credible threat, the FBI and NYPD, as they do every year, will have a large security effort in and around Times Square," FBI agent Richard Kolko, a spokesman for the New York office, told AOL News. Kolko said the FBI and New York police will have fully operational control centers and teams of bomb techs to respond to suspicious packages. Hazmat and SWAT teams, evidence ...
What's Your Wish for 2011?
By John Merline - AOL NewsThis week, we asked a dozen top writers to share their wishes for the New Year. You can read them by clicking on any of the headlines below. Better TV News -- By Barry W. Lynn A Better World for My Daughter -- By G. Willow Wilson More Companies That Don't Suck -- By Dave Logan More Progress for Women -- By Talia Carner A Just Transition to Clean Energy -- By Jeff Biggers Closing the Happiness Gap -- By Catherine Ryan Hyde Honor for the Kalahari Bushmen -- By James G. Workman The Courage to Ask Questions -- By Sonya Huber More Adoptions -- By Brett ...
North Korea Calls for Peace With U.S. in New Year Message
By David Sessions - Politics DailyThe North Korean government called for an end to hostile relations with the United States in its annual New Year message, the Times of London reports. The regime's statement said it was committed to a "peace strategy" for the Korean peninsula and to ending the nuclear threats for which it has become infamous. "The fundamental task for ensuring peace and stability on the Korean peninsula and in the rest of Asia is to put an end to the hostile relationship between North Korea and the U.S.," the statement said. Pyongyang added that it hoped to achieve "a lasting peace system" and to make the ...
Partygoers Celebrate New Year in Times Square
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW YORK (Jan. 1) -- For all those reflecting glumly on the last 10 years of terror attacks, war and recession, Gail Guay has some advice: "Don't look back." The 50-year-old Guay, from Raymond, N.H., was among the hundreds of thousands of revelers who rang in 2010 in a chilly Times Square as the famous Waterford crystal ball dropped at midnight Thursday, marking the end of a difficult decade that many wanted to leave behind. But a sense of starting fresh remained elusive for many, who wondered what sort of legacy would begin on Jan. 1. "Nothing seems to be going well," said John O'Donnell, ...
Revelers Around the World Ring in 2010
By not in system - AOL NewsPARIS (Dec. 31) - Paris jazzed up the Eiffel Tower with a multicolored, disco-style light display as the world basked in New Year's festivities with hopes that 2010 and beyond will bring more peace and prosperity. From fireworks over Sydney's famous bridge to balloons sent aloft in Tokyo, revelers across the globe at least temporarily shelved worries about the future to bid farewell to "The Noughties" - a bitter-tinged nickname for the first decade of the 21st century playing on a term for "zero" and evoking the word naughty. In New York City, hundreds of thousands of revelers gathered in ...
Resolutions for the Recession-Racked
By Alyssa Giacobbe - AOL News(Dec. 31) -- At the end of a year that many of us are looking forward to forgetting and the start of one that could well be even worse, is anyone in the mood for a New Year's resolution? It would seem so: According to a Marist Poll, the New Year's resolution is up by nearly 10 percent. Replacing the usual "lose weight, exercise more, quit smoking" trifecta, however, are more creative vows, many of which, it turns out, complement our national malaise quite nicely. (As University of Scranton psychology professor John Norcross says, "As the country goes, so go resolutions.") Wondering how to make ...
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