Peoples release balloons to celebrate the New Year with Tokyo Tower in the background in Tokyo, early Friday, January 1, 2016. Japan celebrated the start of 2016, the Year of the Monkey in the Japanese Zodiac. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





Fireworks explode over Dubai's Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, during the New Year celebrations January 1, 2016, as the Address Downtown Dubai hotel and residential block, which had been engulfed by a fire, can be seen on the left. (Photo by Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters)





A new year reveller (R) receives a gift of sparklers as hundreds of partygoers await the first sunrise of the new year on Australia's Bondi Beach in Sydney, January 1, 2016. (Photo by Jason Reed/Reuters)





Revellers celebrate New Year's Day in central Moscow, Russia, January 1, 2016. (Photo by Tatyana Makeyeva/Reuters)





Fireworks explode next to the Quadriga sculpture atop the Brandenburg gate during New Year celebrations in Berlin January 1, 2016. (Photo by Hannibal Hanschke/Reuters)





Fireworks explode in the sky during New Year celebrations in Sofia, Bulgaria, January 1, 2016. (Photo by Pierre Marsaut/Reuters)





Fireworks explode over the temple of the Parthenon atop Acropolis hill during New Year's day celebrations in Athens, Greece, January 1, 2016. (Photo by Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters)





Fireworks explode during New Year's celebrations in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, January 1, 2016. (Photo by Dado Ruvic/Reuters)





Revellers gather near the Arc de Triomphe on the Champs Elysees Avenue in Paris, France, during New Year celebrations, early January 1, 2016. (Photo by Charles Platiau/Reuters)





Revellers watch as confetti explodes in front of Vienna's city hall as Austria's capital ushers in the New Year, January 1, 2016. (Photo by Leonhard Foeger/Reuters)





Fireworks explode next to the Bayram Pasa Isa Beg mosque during New Year celebrations in Mitrovica, Bosnia and Herzegovina January 1, 2016. (Photo by Agron Beqiri/Reuters)





Egyptians celebrate in front of great pyramids during New Year's day celebrations on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt, January 1, 2016. (Photo by Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters)





Egyptians celebrate in front of pyramids during New Year celebrations on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt, December 31, 2015. (Photo by Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters)





Pyramids are illuminated during New Year's day celebrations on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt, January 1, 2016. (Photo by Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters)





Fireworks explode past the Times Square Ball (rear) after it dropped to signal the start of the New Year in the Manhattan borough of New York January 1, 2016. (Photo by Darren Ornitz/Reuters)





Fireworks light the sky above the Statue of St. Wenceslas at Prague's Wenceslas Square during the New Year celebrations in Prague, Czech Republic, Friday, January 1, 2016. (Photo by Katerina Sulova/CTK via AP Photo)





Revellers take souvenir selfies at the end of the 5-minute video performance displayed on the Arc de Triomphe as part of New Year's Eve celebrations on the Champs Elysees Avenue in Paris, France, Friday, January 1, 2016. (Photo by Francois Mori/AP Photo)





Fireworks explode in front of Malaysia's landmark building, Petronas Twin Towers, during the New Year's Eve celebration in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Friday, January 1, 2016. (Photo by Joshua Paul/AP Photo)





Fireworks explode over the Opera House and Harbour Bridge during New Year's Eve fireworks display in Sydney, Australian, Friday, January 1, 2016. (Photo by Rob Griffith/AP Photo)





A woman uses her smartphone to take picture of fireworks while celebrating the New Year at the Imjingak Pavilion near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Friday, January 1, 2016. (Photo by Lee Jin-man/AP Photo)





People hold Bengal lights at Red Square during the New Year celebration in Moscow, Russia, Friday, January 1, 2016, with the Spasskaya Tower, left, and St. Basil's Cathedral, right, in the background. Putin is using his New Year's message to commemorate both the country's current fight in Syria and the battles of World War II seven decades ago. The recorded message was being televised just before midnight Thursday in each of Russia's nine time zones. (Photo by Denis Tyrin/AP Photo)





Tens of thousands of floating “wishing spheres” carrying people's New Year wishes line the Marina Bay against the skyline of Singapore December 31, 2015. (Photo by Edgar Su/Reuters)





The Imperial Ancestral Temple was lit up in holiday decorations and red lights during a rehearsal for a New Year's Eve countdown celebration in Beijing, China, 30 December 2015. The Imperial Ancestral Temple was lit up in holiday decorations and red lights during a rehearsal for a New Year's Eve countdown celebration in Beijing, on Wednesday (30 December 2015). About 1,000 tourists from home and abroad will participate in the celebration. At 8 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time, China will ring in 2016 ahead of much of the rest of the world on Thursday night. (Photo by Imaginechina/Splash News)





A fireworks display is set off from the Taipei 101 skyscraper during the New Year's Eve celebrations in Taipei, Taiwan, Friday, January 1, 2016. (Photo by Wally Santana/AP Photo)





The numbers “2016” are written in the air with a sparkler on a bank of the Yenisei River in the Taiga district, near the town of Divnogorsk outside Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, Russia, December 31, 2015. (Photo by Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)