2008 Fireworks

Fireworks explode from the National Monument (Monas) during New Year celebrations in Jakarta January 1, 2008. REUTERS/Supri (INDONESIA)


A girl watches fireworks explode from the National Monument (Monas) during New Year celebrations in Jakarta January 1, 2008. REUTERS/Dadang Tri (INDONESIA)


Lighting the sky : Fireworks light up the sky during an early display at Kap Arkona, on Germany's northern coast to usher in the new year. (AFP/DDP/Jens Kohler)


Fireworks explode during New Year's celebrations over the bay of Funchal on Madeira island January 1, 2008. REUTERS/Duarte Sa (PORTUGAL)


Fireworks explode in front of National Congress during a pyrotechnic show to celebrate the new year in Brasilia January 1, 2008. REUTERS/Jamil Bittar (BRAZIL)


Fireworks explode in front of National Congress during a pyrotechnic show to celebrate the new year in Brasilia January 1, 2008. REUTERS/Jamil Bittar (BRAZIL)


Filipino merry makers scribble 2008 with lit fireworks as they welcome the New Year with noisy and colorful celebrations in Manila. New Year firecrackers and stray gunfire injured more than 220 people as the Philippines welcomed in 2008, a police chief said Tuesday (AFP/Romeo Gacad)


Frontier guards hold fireworks forming the number 2008 during a New Year's event in Taizhou, Zhejiang province, December 31, 2007. Picture taken December 31, 2007. REUTERS/China Daily (CHINA) CHINA OUT


A fireworks show in celebration of the 2008 New Year erupts from the Space Needle at midnight in Seattle, Washington, January 1, 2008. REUTERS/Anthony P. Bolante (UNITED STATES)


Australians line the shores to usher in the New Year with the spectacular 'The Time Of Your Life' fireworks display over Sydney Harbour, as the first round of fireworks for children lights up the harbour at 9pm local time (1000 GMT). Millions staged midnight parties at iconic landmarks around the world to see in 2008 but bomb attacks and security fears quickly darkened New Year festivities. (AFP/Torsten Blackwood)


A combination picture shows fireworks exploding during New Year celebrations around the world January 1, 2008. The photos were taken in (clockwise starting from top left) Sydney, Singapore, London, Hong Kong, Moscow and Athens. REUTERS/Staff


Brandenburg celebration : Fireworks explode behind the quadriga of Berlin's Brandenburg Gate to usher in the new year. (AFP/DDP/Axel Schmidt)


Fireworks New York harbor: Fireworks light up the sky over New York harbor as the Queen Mary 2, right, Queen Victoria, center, and Queen Elizabeth 2 rendezvous near the Statue of Liberty Sunday, Jan. 13, 2008 in New York. This is the only time the three Queen ships will ever meet. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)