We Tripantu is a Mapuche indian celebration to recognize the start of a new year at the Winter Solstice.

Celebrating Resistance

The Sun Festival

Let's tour around the world to check out the different celebrations Solstice at Stonehenge, Feast of Saint John's bonfires in Spain, Inti Raymi in Peru, we tripantu in Chile and Kupala Day in Russia or Midsummer's night in Poland.

The New Old Year

East Asia s New Year Resolutions

Europe s New Year s Irresolution

The Sun Festival, or Inti Raymi, comes from the Incas and is celebrated in communities of this descent.

How to Keep a New Year s Resolution

New Year s Hope against Hope

The first ever ceremony consisted of six categories.

Hunnapuh shares photos of the carpets ( alfombras in Spanish) made for this year's Holy Week in El Salvador.

We celebrate our national identity in private and are excluded when other Jordanians celebrate theirs which should also be ours.

Taxi Driver Celebrating with Egyptian Flag, photo copyright Demotix

But it is much more than a celebration.

Last year's observance of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty at the UN Headquarters in New York featured testimonies of extreme poverty from around the world.

The majority of Kiribati, including the capital, is not first, for example New Zealand (UTC 13 in January) has an earlier new year.

Jodl signed this document during a ceremony in France.

And here is a Moroccan cleric who preached against the celebration of the Yennayer Amazigh New Year.

Thanks for the organizers, speakers, attendees You made the new year better

You can say that it is a celebration and waiting for biggest one at the end of its 30 days.

A week later, an inauguration ceremony officially began Shantsev s second term in office.

People help each other. It s a celebration of speech.

Ovecha Rague festival in San Miguel, Paraguay.

Inti Raymi marks the beginning of the new year.

Each year, Sheikh Nahayan, the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, as well as Chancellor of the UAE University, comes to give his opening address, and the red carpet is literally rolled out.

So it may be premature for the Party to celebrate the success of its adaptive strategy.

And in November, last year, eight people were killed in Al Ahsa, also in the Eastern province, when gunmen attacked a Shia community centre, where a religious ceremony was taking place.

1. Welcomes the appointment of the new Representative of the Secretary General on the human rights of internally displaced persons

Unfortunately, the New Year s resolutions made in Europe and America were the wrong ones.

Michael Turton posts some photos of Taiwan New Year Market.

Welcomes the appointment of the new Representative of the Secretary General on human rights of internally displaced persons

At the beginning of this new year, the security situation in Darfur is still bad.

LONDON I spent the New Year in Sydney, watching the fireworks above the iconic bridge welcome in 2009.

In that spirit, we extend our warmest congratulation to the International Atomic Energy Agency and its Director General, my friend and colleague Mohamed ElBaradei, on the Nobel Peace Prize they so magnificently received last Friday.

On 5 November 1897, during a military ceremony, Morais withstood an attempt on his life.

Yet there are reasons to expect real progress in the new year.

Lavezzi has attracted a few more fans after stripping off his shirt in a victory celebration.

She soon became pregnant, and there was a second wedding service in London on 25 January 1533.

At the same time that year another miracle happens in my city my best friend survives a shelling at a new year s party. I m still grateful for that. The most beautiful miracle of my life.

The new Middle East bodes poorly for the coming year.

69. Requests the Secretary General to ensure that information concerning the details of the new system of administration of justice, in particular options for recourse, is readily accessible by all staff covered under the new system

Ms. SINANKWA (Burundi) commended the outgoing Director General for his successful leadership of the Organization and welcomed the nomination of Mr. Yumkella as the new Director General.

The next video shows school children in Chile dancing in a celebration of this indigenous festivity

Following this failed attempt, Kibaki ordered Attorney General Amos Wako to author his government s version of a new constitution.