A few that caught my eye from the AP feed of photos of 2008 breaking across the globe:

AP / Anil Dayal
People write the digit 2008 with lighted candles as they celebrate on New Year's Eve in Shimla, India.

It's not easy to see fire writing, never mind to photograph it.

AP / Mikhail Metzel
Russians celebrate the New Year on Red Square in Moscow, with the Kremlin and the St. Basil's cathedral, in the background.

AP / Octavio Passos
Fireworks explode at midnight above the port of Funchal, in the Portuguese Atlantic Ocean island of Madeira.

AP / Boris Grdanoski
A girl plays with sparklers during a New Year's celebration in downtown Skopje, Macedonia.

AP / Mel Evans
People watch fireworks in Newtown, Pa., during the town's First Night celebration.

AP /Jacques Brinon
Revellers celebrate the new year before the Eiffel Tower in Paris

Two AP India photographers went for the nature of the event:

AP / Rajesh Kumar Singh
Seagulls fly as the sun sets in Allahabad, India, Monday, Dec. 31, 2007. Most parts of northern India experienced cold but clear weather on New Year's Eve.

AP / Dar Yasin
A Kashmiri fisherman rows his boat on the Dal Lake as the sun sets in Srinagar, India.

Happy new year to you, too.