Dubai - Best New Year's Eve 2017 Fireworks Displays From Around The World in 90 Seconds

Best New Year's Eve 2017 Fireworks Displays From Around The World in 90 Seconds Best New Year's Eve 2017 Fireworks Displays From Around The World in 90 Seconds Best New Year's Eve 2017 Fireworks Displays From Around The World in 90 Seconds Revelers rang in 2017 across the globe with dazzling fireworks displays at midnight, draping skylines from Sydney to Singapore and Bangkok to Berlin with sparkling bursts of color hours before the ball dropped in New York's Times Square. Dubai did not disappoint, with more than 650,000 people estimated to have watched the fireworks shoot from the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, in a massive 10-minute production fit for a prince. A crowd estimated at 1 million packed in and around New York City's Times Square to watch the ball drop and signal the end 2016, under the watchful eye of police following a gun attack on a nightclub in Istanbul that occurred a little more than an hour after the start of the New Year there. "I've always wanted to come to New York and this is one of the must-dos before you die," Stefania Moran, 25, from Puebla, Mexico, told NBC New York as she waited with friends. Mariah Carey headlined in Times Square for "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest" on ABC, but the show hit a snag. She had technical difficulties during her performance and stopped singing, then she paced the stage and urged the audience to belt out the "Emotions" lyrics instead. "I'm trying to be a good sport here," she said. Sydney used its New Year's Eve showstopper to say farewell to 2016's fallen icons, honoring the late singer David Bowie and late actor Gene Wilder, among others, and become the first major city to bid a bittersweet adieu to a turbulent year. The glittering festivities over Sydney's famed harbor and bridge featured Saturn and star-shaped fireworks set to "Space Oddity," the classic song by Bowie — one of the seemingly endless parade of beloved entertainers who died in 2016. Wilder was also honored as the bridge lit up in a rainbow of colors while a song from Wilder's famed film "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" played. "This year, sadly, we saw the loss of many music and entertainment legends around the world," fireworks show co-producer Catherine Flanagan said. "So celebrating their music as part of Sydney New Year's Eve fireworks displays is an opportunity to reflect on the year that has been and what the future may hold."