Absolute Marbella Magazine. Belinda Beckett has the global low-down on the absolute highlights. I t will be the party to end all parties - a bash that will literally set the world alight as zillions of fireworks zip through a dozen time zones.
Pyrotechnics are on everyone's agenda.
Where natural daylight will strike first is another matter. They claim that a little-known archipelago in Antarctica called the Chatham Islands, uninhabited by humans, will be the first landfall on earth to see the dawning of YK2. Michael Jackson is hedging his bets. He will be performing in Sydney, then jetting across the international date line to Honolulu for a second concert. With a 22-hour time lag between the two venues, he will have simultaneously performed one of the first concerts in the new millennium and one of the last in the old.