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A view of the New Year's Eve fireworks display on Sydney Harbor in Sydney, Australia.
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Thousands of Filipinos simultaneously blow their Torotots (party blowers) for the attempt to break the Guinness book of World Record for the "most number of people blowing party blowers simultaneously" in Davao city. Ten thousand party blowers were expected to make noise there on New Year's Eve.
Ritchie B. Tongo
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A reveler poses on New Year's Eve in Amritsar, India.
Narinder Nanu
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A Buddhist woman holding a candle light prays ahead of the new year at Chogye Buddhist temple in Seoul, South Korea.
Ahn Young-joon
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Balinese girls in traditional costumes gather during a parade for this year's last sundown in Bali, Indonesia.
Firdia Lisnawati
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The new year has begun in Australia, where fireworks exploded near Sydney's Harbor Bridge and the Opera House.
Rob Griffith
Sounds of the New Year's celebration in Auckland, New Zealand
It's 2014 in Australia, New Zealand and other places on the "other side" of the international date line.
So we want to wish everyone a happy new year.
We'll add photos and news nuggets as the new day and new year dawn around the world. One thing to watch for: Dubai's attempt to set a new Guinness World Record for biggest fireworks display. According to The Wall Street Journal:
"If all goes to plan, more than 400,000 individual fireworks will light up over the Persian Gulf at midnight, beating a Guinness record of 77,000 set by Kuwait last year."
The Dubai display is set to be streamed here (though the site's "countdown clock" appears to be wrong at this time). The "teaser video" makes it look like it will be quite a show. Local time in Dubai is nine hours ahead of the U.S. east coast.
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