New Year's Eve is fast approaching, and workers in New York City are hard at work installing 32, 256 LED lights on the Times Square New Year's Eve ball.
The new postseason format will create two national semifinals to be played New Year's Eve or New Year's Day, with the winners advancing.
The six bowls in the playoff rotation will host marquee, BCS-type games on New Year's Eve or New Year's Day during the seasons they do not host a semifinal.
In addition to the regular weekend matches, they also work on Dec. 26 Boxing Day, a national holiday and either New Year's Eve or New Year's Day, depending on the calendar.
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The firework manufacturer created displays for the 2012 Olympics and London's New Year's Eve celebrations.
Mrs Cable will resume the same role for the city's New Year's Eve celebrations.
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Walt Disney ( DIS - news - people )-owned ABC's New Year's Eve special and red-carpet events.
Some 77 people were arrested during London's New Year's Eve celebrations, with most of the crowds generally "good humoured", police said.
Shanghai Morning Post said Mr Zhao's short comedy was a "fixture" of the national live telecast, while Guangzhou's Southern Metropolis Daily said his annual play was an "essential dish" in everybody's New Year's Eve dinner.
Derry City Council is asking people to come to Queen's Quay on New Year's Eve to welcome in 2013, the official start of the city's year as UK City of Culture.
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Statistics from South East Coast Ambulance Service said there were 1, 544 calls between 22:00 GMT on New Year's Eve and 04:00 GMT on New Year's Day.
Managing Director Steve Banaghan said the company had offered additional payments for working Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve.
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Assistant chief ambulance officer John Pooley, who led the service's response this New Year's Eve, said in the early hours demand was extremely high and a lot of the extra calls were because of alcohol-related injuries.
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Watching Dick Clark on TV is how most revelers in the U.S. spend New Year's Eve, which is why Hollywood is intrigued that on Dec. 31, 250, 000 people gathered in hundreds of theaters and churches to take in an alternative, the movie Left Behind II: Tribulation Force.
You've seen it on TV, now see what it's like to be among the hundreds of thousands of crazed folks crammed into New York's Times Square, watching that glittering ball descend on New Year's Eve.
Scott Johnson's all-stars visit Welsh rivals Cardiff Blues on New Year's Eve before travelling to Irish giants Leinster on 7 January, the side they shocked in last year's Magners League Grand Final.
Both the Greenwich Park concert and the events at the Dome will feature in the BBC's 2000 Today programme on New Year's Eve.
Mr. Bauer would invite Mr. Robinson to his spacious apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side for New Year's Eve and Super Bowl parties, a former friend says.
He was found dead at a friend's house in County Monaghan on New Year's Eve.
And according to Hallmark, which markets party supplies, it's the third-biggest party day after New Year's Eve and Super Bowl Sunday.
Conductors, who took industrial action on Saturday, are again on strike on Christmas Eve and plan a further stoppage on New Year's Eve.
Geele had searched for the cartoonist's address on the internet and, on New Year's Eve, bought the axe and sharpened the knife, which he already possessed.
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It happened at the heavily populated finish line of the centerpiece event of Boston's Patriots Day holiday, "almost like New Year's Eve in broad daylight, " said NBC News' Brian Williams.
Of course there's an exception to the winter discounts: unless you're extremely flexible, it's usually hard to find a deal between Christmas and New Year's Eve.
The Lifestyle Club's 35 employees have already satisfied requests such as a New Year's Eve helicopter excursion to behold the Northern Lights in Iceland, and a tented dinner party for 100 in Giza, Egypt.
Here, a streamlined version of that annual celebratory spread serves as the second of the chef's four Slow Food Fast contributions, just in time for New Year's Eve.
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He made his way to a friend's house, where he was found dead just after midday on New Year's Eve.
The Pope's statements on Christians in the Middle East came after a deadly New Year's Eve bombing in the al-Qiddissin church in the Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria three years ago.
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John Armbruster of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, who's been studying seismic events and fracking in the Youngstown area for months, said Friday that it's "virtually certain" that an injection of fracking wastewater caused the New Year's Eve tremor.
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