A worker clears confetti from a sidewalk in Times Square after midnight on New Years Tuesday Jan. 1, 2013, in New York. With fireworks, concerts and celebrations from Hong Kong to New York, revelers welcome 2013 with hope for a better future after a year that thudded to a close with a disastrous storm, gun violence, and talk of economic turmoil from a looming fiscal cliff. This will be the first Times Square countdown in decades without Dick Clark, who died in April, and was honored with a tribute concert and his name printed on pieces of confetti.

Trash after the New Year's eve night is seen on Jan. 1, 2013 in Duesseldorf, western Germany.

Trash after the New Year's eve night is seen on a street on Jan.1, 2013 in Duesseldorf, western Germany.

A man walks past a large pile of garbage in New York on Monday, Jan. 3. After a large snowstorm crippled the city last week, the New York City Department of Sanitation has been unable to collect garbage leading to large uncollected piles of waste. Garbage collection resumed today, but officials estimated it would take up to four days to catch up.