New Year celebrations around the world
Revellers around the world have been celebrating the beginning of 2014.
NASA astronauts send New Year greetings from the ISS
Astronauts on board the International Space Station have sent New Year's greetings to the crowd in New York's Times Square.
The video, which was played on the iconic square's big screen, features NASA's Rick Mastracchio and Mike Hopkins, Koichi Wakata of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency on the ISS and recently returned NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg.
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