Times Square Ball Drop

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  Omicron Shadows New Year's Day, Fewer Watch Ball Drop In Times Square

  The Omicron coronavirus variant dampened New Year festivities around much of the world, with Paris cancelling its fireworks show, London relegating its to television, and New York City scaling down its famous ball drop celebration in Times Square.

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  UN's Ban Ki-Moon To Push Times Square 2017 Countdown Button

  United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will perform one last ceremonial duty before ending his 10-year leadership of the world body.

• New York Rings in New Year With Heightened Security in Times Square

  Roughly 1 million revelers packed New York's Times Square and rang in the new year with the city's annual crystal ball drop under unusually tight security for the nation's biggest New Year's Eve celebrations.

• Ball drops in New York City's Times Square, ushering in 2014

  A sea of horn-tooting, hat-wearing revelers cheered and some even kissed as the famed crystal ball dropped in a freezing New York City's Times Square to ring in 2014

• Gaga, Bieber to celebrate New Year's Eve in New York

  Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber will join revellers in New York City's Times Square Dec 31 to bid farewell to 2011 and welcome 2012.