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Problem:NEW YORK (AP) — A world-wide wave of celebrations rang in 2014 with a dazzling 30-minute fireworks show in Dubai, a deluge of confetti in London that tasted as good as it looked and a lavish, boozy music-filled party throughout the streets of Las Vegas. 
  
 Kenn Magowan, left, Anna Edgerly-Moore, both of New York, look out over Times Square, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014 as the new year is celebrated. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle) (Associated Press) 
  
 Confetti fills the air as 2014 arrives with the Peach Drop at Underground Atlanta early New Year's Day, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Curtis Compton) GWINNETT... (Associated Press) 
  
 Confetti flies over Tines Square in New York Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014 as the new year is celebrated. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle) (Associated Press) 
  
 In this photo by Dubai World Record 2014, fireworks explode over the World Islands to celebrate the New Year Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014 as the city attempts to break the Guinness World Record for the "Largest... (Associated Press) 
  
 In this photo provided by Dubai World Record 2014, fireworks explode over Palm Jumeirah Island, front, and World Islands, rear, to celebrate the New Year on Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014 as the city attempts... (Associated Press) 
  
 Toronto Mayor Rob Ford attends the New Year's Eve celebrations at Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto, Tuesday Dec. 31, 2013. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Mark Blinch) (Associated Press) 
  
 Miranda Echerarria and Christian Prieto, of Niagra, N.Y. kiss at the stoke of midnight during the New Year's Eve celebrations in Times Square, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) (Associated Press) 
  
 Confetti flies over Tines Square in New York Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014 as the new year is celebrated. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle) (Associated Press) 
  
 Toronto Mayor Rob Ford attends the New Year's Eve celebrations at Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto, Tuesday Dec. 31, 2013. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Mark Blinch) (Associated Press) 
  
 Stephanie Weaver snaps photos of the Peach Drop at Underground Atlanta, early on New Year's Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Curtis Compton) GWINNETT OUT MARIETTA... (Associated Press) 
  
 Deborah Harry from the band Blondie performs in Times Square during New Year's Eve celebrations on Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2013 in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP) (Associated Press) 
  
 Deborah Harry from the band Blondie performs in Times Square during New Year's Eve celebrations on Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2013 in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP) (Associated Press) 
  
 Macklemore performs in Times Square during New Year's Eve celebrations on Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2013 in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP) (Associated Press) 
  
 In freezing New York City's Times Square, a sea of horn-tooting, hat-wearing revelers cheered and some even smooched as the famed crystal ball dropped at midnight. 
  
 Bronx-born U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor led the 60-second countdown and pushed the button that unleashed the shimmering orb with 2,688 crystals, a role usually filled by the New York City mayor. 
  
 Mayor Michael Bloomberg, on his last day in office, sat out the celebration after 12 years on the job, while newly elected Mayor Bill de Blasio took the oath of office just after midnight at his Brooklyn home. 
  
 Kerrie McConaghy, 20, a university student visiting Times Square from Armagh, Ireland, was dancing and jumping up and down, donning a big blue top hat. 
  
 "It's unbelievable here," she said. "The lights, seeing the ball, hearing the music, all the people. It's amazing." 
  
 "TV doesn't do this justice," she said. "You have to be here to believe it." 
  
 Marcus Ix, 34, visiting from Germany, gave his wife, Sabrina, a big kiss when the ball dropped and confetti rained down. 
  
 "This is the best New Year's Eve of my life," he said as the crowd erupted with cheers and cries of "Happy New Year!" ''It was worth the 13 hour wait in the cold." 
  
 The annual New York celebration, which this year featured performances from artists such as Miley Cyrus, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and Blondie, has become part endurance sport because post-9/11 security measures force spectators into pens at least 12 hours in advance, with no food, warmth or bathrooms. 
  
 "We've got adult diapers. We're wearing them right now," said 14-year-old Amber Woods, who came with friends from the New York City's suburbs to experience the event for the first time. They entered their corral at 10 a.m. Tuesday. For nourishment, they brought lollipops and popcorn. For the cold, they did a lot of jumping in place. 
  
 "Every time I say, it's the last. But then I come back," said Yasmina Merrir, a 42-year-old Washington, D.C., resident attending her fourth Times Square ball drop. In 2009, the cold was so bad, she got hypothermia. Her legs swelled up like balloons. 
  
 Merrir was fasting and not drinking anything to deal with the lack of restrooms. As for the cold, she recommended vigorous dancing for as long as you can stand on your feet. 
  
 "At a point," she said, "your brain is not working anymore." 
  
 Las Vegas held one its biggest ever New Year's Eve celebrations, with sold-out concerts and an eight-minute long fireworks show that was billed as the largest in the country. The Minus5 Ice Bar Mandalay Bay started handing out free champagne for hourly toasts at 11 a.m. Tourists were seen toting novelty drinks into casinos by noon. 
  
 Big-ticket musical acts Bruno Mars, John Legend and Maroon 5 helped lure 335,000 visitors to Las Vegas by nightfall on Tuesday — 5,000 more than last year, tourism officials said. 
  
 On the other side of the Atlantic, London welcomed 2014 with a mixture of futuristic fireworks and torch-lit tradition. The city's mayor said this year's explosive display came packed with peach-flavored snow, edible banana confetti and orange-scented bubbles. The evening also included scratch-and-sniff programs, LED wristbands and fruit-flavored sweets. 
  
 In Russia, where two suicide bombings in two days killed 34 people, eerily empty busses lumbered through the streets of Volgograd, where authorities canceled mass events for New Year's Eve and asked residents not to set off fireworks. 
  
 President Vladimir Putin, in his New Year's Eve address to the nation, vowed that the fight against terrorists will continue "until their destruction is complete," Russian news agencies reported. 
  
 In Dubai, a Persian Gulf city known for glitz, glamour and over-the-top achievements like the world's tallest skyscraper, officials sought to break another record by creating the largest fireworks show. 
  
 The Dubai skyline was a canvas for a dazzling 30-minute show. The display capped off with six minutes of fireworks that engulfed the city's man-made, palm-shaped island, with its fronds and trunk shimmering in thousands of lights. Organizers had promised that the fireworks would form a flying falcon, a sunrise and the United Arab Emirates flag. 
  
 More than 260 people were injured by firecracker blasts and celebratory gunfire in the Philippines, a nation marking the end of a year of tragic disasters, including a Nov. 8 typhoon that left more than 6,100 dead and nearly 1,800 missing. 
  
 "Many here are welcoming the new year after losing their mothers, fathers, siblings and children so you can imagine how it feels," said village chief Maria Rosario Bactol of the Anibong community in Tacloban, the city worst hit by Typhoon Haiyan. "I tell them to face the reality, to move on and stand up, but I know it will never be easy." 
  
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 Associated Press writers Aya Batrawy in Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Rod McGuirk in Canberra, Australia; Jim Gomez in Manila, Philippines; Kelvin Chan in Hong Kong; Ali Kotarumalos in Jakarta, Indonesia; Ken Moritsugu, Yuri Kageyama and Eric Talmadge in Tokyo; Louise Watt in Beijing; Hannah Dreier in Las Vegas and Colleen Long in New York City contributed to this report. ||||| Story highlights Revelers in London were treated to edible confetti choreographed to fireworks 
  
 Dubai's huge firework show certified as largest by Guinness World Records 
  
 40,000 new laws go into effect in the U.S., some involving pot, placentas and shark fins 
  
 A bar in Florida celebrates by lowering a drag queen from a giant shoe from the building 
  
 Yes, it's New Year's Eve again, time to bust out the champagne and make resolutions you probably won't keep. 
  
 But this year's different. Cities around the world were hosting some of the most amazing celebrations ever. Edible confetti raining over London? Check. How about 400,000 pyrotechnics exploding over Dubai? That happened, too. 
  
 And let's not forget that the new year also means bizarre new laws 
  
 Here's what people experienced across the globe: 
  
 1. Taste the rainbow 
  
 Why have a fireworks show that only looks good? Revelers in London stuck out their tongues during Tuesday's extravaganza and enjoyed banana-flavored confetti that was choreographed to the fireworks. They also saw floating oranges drifting through the night sky and popped them to enjoy a citrusy scent! 
  
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 Food artists Harry Parr and Sam Bompas worked working on the show for an entire year. They even made sure their edible treats were kosher, vegan and hypoallergenic. 
  
 "We developed a special confetti that's actually biodegradable, and in the rain it will magically dissolve," Parr said. "Even better, it tastes amazing." 
  
 2. Dubai goes big -- really big 
  
 In Dubai -- a city obsessed with superlatives -- organizers pulled off a world record for the biggest fireworks display near the world's tallest building 
  
 The spectacular show featured 400,000 pyrotechnics over 400 parts of the Dubai shoreline. That's 100 kilometers (62 miles) of waterfront lighting up. 
  
 The Guinness World Records staff later labeled it the largest ever. The show blew Kuwait's world record out of the water when last year it set off 77,000 fireworks over 64 minutes. 
  
 3. Have a ball -- an 'odd' ball 
  
 Sure, New York has a massive sparkly ball they've been dropping for the past century or so. But what other objects can you relinquish to gravity to mark the new year? 
  
 The North Carolina mountain town of Brasstown prefers a possum -- slowly lowered and then set free. 
  
 But Key West, Florida, takes the cake with its drag queen drop 
  
 For years, female impersonator Gary "Sushi" Marion has been lowered from the Bourbon St. Pub in Key West while riding in a massive high-heel shoe. 
  
 "It was inspired by 'Priscilla Queen of the Desert' when it first came out, with the whole high heel on top of the bus," said Joey Schroeder, owner of Bourbon St. Pub. "I wanted to take that idea and do something fun on New Year's Eve." 
  
 4. 25 hours of celebrations 
  
 Samoa and American Samoa are virtually neighbors, with just 101 miles between them. But they're also 25 hours apart 
  
 So one was among the first to ring in the new year; the other will be among the last. 
  
 How can this happen? Let's just say the international date line isn't even close to a straight line 
  
 And because the date line isn't fixed by any international law or agreement, it can zig and zag to accommodate government and business interests. It's as close to a time machine as we'll probably get. 
  
 5. Yes to placentas, no to shark fins 
  
 More than 40,000 new laws will take effect in the U.S. on New Year's Day. While Colorado's legalization of marijuana has racked up plenty of headlines, here are some of the more peculiar ones: 
  
 In Oregon, mothers will be allowed to take their placentas home from the hospital. Some say placenta capsules can help with postpartum depression, CNN affiliate KGW reported, though there's not a lot of medical research backing that up. 
  
 Delaware will join a growing number of states where you can't own, sell or distribute shark fins, which is considered a delicacy in some East Asian cuisine. 
  
 And thousands of companies will have to provide calorie counts for products sold in vending machines. 
  
 Because if you're going to a vending machine, clearly you care the most about calories, right? 
  
 Depends on what day of the resolution you're on. |||||
Solution:
Dubai, home of the world's tallest building, decided to usher in 2014 in typical over-the-top fashion with the biggest fireworks display in history. Guinness World Records staff certified that the spectacular 30-minute show, featuring 400,000 fireworks over dozens of miles of shoreline, was the biggest ever, easily beating Kuwait's 77,000-firework display last year, CNN reports. In London, meanwhile, the annual fireworks display was a more sensory affair than usual, featuring peach-flavored snow, edible banana confetti, and orange-scented bubbles, the AP reports.