By Brad Brooks (Reuters) - Dana Fenner's hands were full of New Year's Eve hats and horns as she perused an aisle at a Party City store in Texas, not .
Australians bade farewell to 2021 with a traditional fireworks display over Sydney harbour as good news from South Africa - the first country to pronounce
South Africa, which first raised alarm about the new fast-spreading coronavirus variant, gave the world one of the last big good surprises of the year -authorities lifted a curfew and said Omicron had crested. This brought hope for a happy New Year worldwide.
By Brad Brooks (Reuters) - Dana Fenner's hands were full of New Year's Eve hats and horns as she perused an aisle at a Party City store in Texas, not .