Bis ans Ende der Welt
Nobody blew up Times Square with their underwear so w00t!1! [ New York Times ]
U.S. stock markets dropped by a percent or so in the last minutes of trading on the last trading day of the year, because We Are All Screwed. [ Marketwatch ]
Russian alcoholics will have to start drinking paint thinner again, as President Dmitry Medvedev wants all vodka to cost more, to keep poor people from drinking so much of it. [ BBC News ]
Actual AP headline: "Times Square revelers mark end of difficult decade." [ Washington Post ]