1.   Arafat and his wife, Suha, are still expected to take part in the midnight celebrations on Sunday.

2.   Others were still rowdy from their midnight celebrations, wading out, laughing, into the shallow surf.

3.   Purple represented the hourly cascade of midnight celebrations.

4.   The backbone will be rolling coverage, time zone by time zone, of midnight celebrations starting in the Kiribati Islands in the Pacific Ocean.

5.   We arrived in Kingman just in time to see the flame arrive for a midnight celebration.

6.   Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio was also due to attend the midnight celebrations.

7.   At midnight celebrations at the Frankfurt stock exchange, hundreds waited to buy the coins while others used picks to hack them out of a huge block of ice.