Fire Engulfs Dubai Luxury Hotel Amidst New Year Fireworks.
Fire engulfed a 63-storey skyscraper in Dubai on Thursday night, but with the block evacuated and only minor injuries reported authorities went ahead with aNew Year's fireworks display at the world's tallest building a few hundred meters away.Tongues of flame shot skywards from one side of the luxury Address Downtown Dubai hotel and residentialblock, which stands across a plaza from the 160-storey Burj Khalifa tower where people had gathered for fireworks to mark the New Year. Television pictures showed pieces of blazing debris raining down from The Address as evacuated occupants hurried away from the building, some running.downtown Dubai said. But as midnight struck, with the Address building continuing to burn, onlookers cheered as a swirling massof multicoloured fireworks enveloped the Burj Khalifa.The Dubai government's media office said the Address blaze was 90 percent under control. Police chief Major General Khamis Matar told Al Arabiya television: more than 60 pe...