New Year's Eve

News, discoveries and ... fun

As the clocked ticked its way from 2012 to 2013, we gathered around the bonfire and ceremoniously offered our human-size effigy to the flames. That's the Año Viejo (or "Old Year") tradition here in Ecuador, and one worth adopting no matter where you live.

The pounding headache, the churning stomach, the remorse for having had one too many - just in time for New Year's Eve tonight, we have six ways to relieve or even prevent the effects of a hangover tomorrow morning. Oh wait, we forgot the seventh: Don't overdo it in the first place.

In 1929, the same year Dick Clark was born, Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians played their first New Year's Eve gig at New York's Roosevelt Hotel.

From the archives, a clip that makes us laugh even while we get all choked up...

"...and in my hour of darkness,