Participants at the annual Good Riddance Day event in Times Square had a chance to wipe their slates clean for the new year Saturday.

Attendees of the 18th annual Good Riddance Day event wrote and erased the things they planned to leave behind in the new year.

DAMASCUS, Syria—The people of Syria said good riddance in the past month to the dictatorship that ruled for half a century. They have no idea what is coming next. So when the clock struck midnight, Damascus let rip.

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Syrians celebrated their first New Year after the fall of Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday as fireworks lit up the night sky above Damascus. In the capital's main square, people brandished "revolution" flags,