New Year's Eve: World Rings In 2015 With Parties, Fireworks And Odd Drops

New Year's Eve is turning into “Groundhog's Day” for Chris Clarke. The one-time Manhattanite arrived Wednesday from his Virginia home to watch the ball drop on New Year's Eve for the 16th time in a cold and very crowded Times Square. “I keep coming 

Being a parent on New Year's Eve is tough. Kids love the excitement of counting down the last seconds of the year, but keeping them awake until midnight is either impossible or turns them into sleep-deprived terrors the next 

It used to be the only way to trick children into falling asleep before the shiny ball on TV lowered at midnight on New Year's Eve was to find a ball drop in a different time zone or record one from a previous year and hope no 

In Greece, the pomegranate has held strong symbolic meaning since ancient times. A common tradition on New Year's Eve is to throw pomegranates on the ground, and break them apart. The more they burst, the more abundance your household will have.

“Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2015″ will start at 8 p.m. ET on ABC. Ryan — with his co-host Jenny McCarthy — will be joined by some of the biggest names in music including, One Direction, Taylor Swift, Iggy Azalea, Magic