Ringing in 2013: New Year's Eve in Sydney, Australia

Spectator boats in Sydney Harbour (below) look on as <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="EVFES000168" title="New Year's Day" href="/topic/arts-culture/holidays/new-years-day-EVFES000168.topic">New Year's Eve</a> fireworks erupt over the Sydney Harbour Bridge on January 1, 2013. Sydney kicked off a wave of dazzling firework displays welcoming in 2013, from Dubai to Moscow and London, with long-isolated Yangon joining the global pyrotechnics for the first time.

( GREG WOOD, AFPGetty Images / December 31, 2012 )

Spectator boats in Sydney Harbour (below) look on as New Year's Eve fireworks erupt over the Sydney Harbour Bridge on January 1, 2013. Sydney kicked off a wave of dazzling firework displays welcoming in 2013, from Dubai to Moscow and London, with long-isolated Yangon joining the global pyrotechnics for the first time.

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