New Years celebrations from around the world

The World

Today is New Year’s Eve, and that means citizens of the world will be ringing in 2010 when the clock hits midnight. We’re leaping through time zones with reporters from across the globe for a look at how some cities are getting ready to celebrate. Tristana Moore is a BBC Correspondent in Munich; Phil Mercer reports for the BBC from Sydney, and Anna Sale is a producer for The Takeaway in New York. Sale called in from Times Square, where many hundreds of millions around the world will watch the ball drop at midnight EST.

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