Take a trip around the globe to see how people celebrated the new year – with fireworks. This year’s absolute winner in fireworks is Dubai, setting a new Guinness World Record for the largest pyrotechnics show. The total cost was a cool $6 million, took 10 months to plan, was controlled by a a network of 100 computers and included 500,000 fireworks. The photo above is what people in Rio de Janeiro saw on the sky – night swimming and fireworks is definitely something that’s worth doing between the years.
