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CNN Student News: 2010-01-05（迪拜塔高度惊世界） Shoutout TOMEKA JONES, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Time for the first Shoutout of 2010! What is the second tallest building in the world? If you think you know it, shout it out! Is it the: A) John Hancock Center, B) Petronas Towers, C) Taipei 101 or D) Empire State Building? Youve got three seconds -- GO! At more than 1,660 feet, Taipei 101 is the second tallest building in the world. Thats your answer and thats your Shoutout! Worlds Tallest AZUZ: It officially became the second tallest building in the world yesterday. Thats because the Burj Dubai opened for business and it took over the top spot. The Burj Dubai opened with a bang. You can see some of the fireworks from Mondays ceremony right here. Six years in the making, one-and-a-half billion dollars, this tower shoots a half-mile up into the sky. And according to the architects who designed it, its a signal that tall buildings are back. So, we know the thing is just huge. But how would the Burj Dubai stack up against some of the worlds most famous skylines? Kristie Lu Stout joins us now with a virtual answer along with some help from other CNN correspondents around the globe. Check it out. (BEGIN VIDEO) KRISTIE LU STOUT, CNN ANCHOR AND CORRESPONDENT, HONG KONG: It stands over 800 meters tall, but can you picture just how big the Burj Dubai really is? Using Google Earth and a 3-D model of the tower created by Google user Quixote3D, we can put the Burj Dubai in some of the worlds biggest cities.This is the famous Hong Kong skyline. And this is Google Earths version of the skyline with one addition: the Burj Dubai. As you can see, it is almost twice the height of Hong Kongs tallest skyscraper, Two IFC, and its taller than the mountains surrounding Hong Kong Harbor. That is what it would look like here, and our correspondents around the world have been playing the same game. KYUNG LAH, CNN CORRESPONDENT, TOKYO: Im Kyung Lah in Tokyo. This is Shibuya Crossing. Not too many tall buildings