Indian children run over an incomplete model of a large male figure based on the character Lemuel Gulliver from the classic novel Gulliver's Travels, which was being used to teach youths about bodily functions, and had been receiving foreign funds for its completion, at the Navsarjan Trust's centre in Nani Devti village near Ahmedabad on December 23, 2016. An Indian charity running schools for Dalit children will close down after the government banned it from receiving foreign funds over alleged threats to national unity, officials said December 23. “We had no option left as foreign funding was the major source of running our operations”, Martin Macwan, managing trustee of the charity founded in 1988, told AFP. Charities, especially foreign-backed aid organisations like Greenpeace India, have come under increased scrutiny since a Hindu nationalist government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power in 2014. (Photo by Sam Panthaky/AFP Photo)





Waves crash over the lighthouse at Porthcawl, Wales, Britain December 23, 2016. High winds affected parts of Wales as Storm Barbara approached the British Isles. (Photo by Rebecca Naden/Reuters)





A boy and a girl pose with Santa masks while selling them on traffic lights on December 23, 2016 in New Delhi, India. Christmas spells a different business across traffic signals in many parts of India. In the capital itself, a common sight leading up to Christmas are children as young as 6-7 hawking decorations like Santa masks and caps at major traffic intersections. These children work different stop lights and once the light turns green, they regroup to discuss the each round’s profits or losses. (Photo by Shams Qari/Barcroft Images)





A surfer wearing a Santa Claus costume rides a wave at a beach in Vigo, Spain, 23 December 2016. Dozens of people have welcomed Christmas surfing dressed in Santa suits. (Photo by Salvador Sas/EPA)





A volunteer has a laugh with a homeless visitor to a Crisis at Christmas centre, which is open over the festive period in London, UK on December 23, 2016. (Photo by Victoria Jones/PA Wire)





An Ultra- Orthodox Jew rides past a Palestinian man dressed up as Santa Claus outside Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem' s Old City, on December 23, 2016, as Christians around the world prepare to celebrate the holy day. (Photo by Ahmad Gharabli/AFP Photo)





A woman tour skates on the frozen lake of Orlangen, south of Stockholm, Sweden, on December 23, 2016. Tour skating is recreational long distance ice skating on natural ice particularly popular in the Nordic countries. (Photo by Tobias Roestlund/AFP Photo/TT News Agency)





A dancer performs on a tree in temperatures below minus 37 degrees Celsius (minus 34.6 degrees Fahrenheit) in Mohe, Heilongjiang province, China, December 23, 2016. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





A pole dancer in Santa costume performs with a red ribbon from a tree, on December 23, 2016 in Mohe, China. (Photo by Feature China/Barcroft Images)





A dancer performs on a tree in temperatures below minus 37 degrees Celsius (minus 34.6 degrees Fahrenheit) in Mohe, Heilongjiang province, China, December 23, 2016. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





Sri Lankan vendor displays Christmas decorations on a stall at a roadside ahead of Christmas Day in Colombo on December 23, 2016. Christians account for some six percent of Sri Lanka's 21 million people. (Photo by Lakruwan Wanniarachchi/AFP Photo)





Actor Roy Hudd (L) plays the pantomime dame role of Mother Goose during a performance of “Mother Goose” at Wilton's Music Hall in London, Britain December 9, 2016. (Photo by Stefan Wermuth/Reuters)





Limusaurus are seen in this illustration provided in this handout to Reuters, December 22, 2016. Scientists in China have identified the first known dinosaur species that grew teeth as juveniles then lost them as adults, a finding that may explain why birds have beaks, a study said Thursday. The research is based on fossils of a small and slender dinosaur known as Limusaurus inextricabilis, part of the theropod group of dinosaurs which were the ancestors of modern birds. It likely ate meat as a youngster but transformed into a beaked adult that probably subsisted on plants, said the study in Current Biology. Among contemporary fish and amphibians, such tooth loss is commonly seen. The platypus, a beaked mammal, loses its teeth, too. Researchers said the discovery of tooth loss in the Limusaurus marks the first in the fossil record and the first among reptiles. (Photo by Yu Chen/Reuters)





Japan's Princess Mako (L) and Princess Kako, daughters of Prince Akishino and his wife Princess Kiko appear before well-wishers as they celebrate Emperor Akihito's 83rd birthday at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Japan, December 23, 2016. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





Indonesian police prepare to leave on motorcycles after attending a security briefing at the National Monument before deployment during the Christmas and New Year holidays in Jakarta, Indonesia December 22, 2016. (Photo by Darren Whiteside/Reuters)





Rescue workers try to put out a fire after a natural gas pipeline explosion in Beijing, China, December 23, 2016. (Photo by Reuters/China Daily)





Journalists listen to Russian President Vladimir Putin during his annual end-of-year news conference in Moscow, Russia, December 23, 2016. (Photo by Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters)





Pro-Putin activist Maria Katasonova holds a poster with portraits of Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, France's far-right National Front president Marine Le Pen, center, and President-elect Donald Trump prior to Russian President's annual news conference in Moscow, Russia, Friday, December 23, 2016. (Photo by Pavel Golovkin/AP Photo)





A screen, showing Russian President Vladimir Putin's annual end-of-year news conference, is on display in Simferopol, Crimea, December 23, 2016. (Photo by Pavel Rebrov/Reuters)





Jordanian protesters hold up placards with Jordan map during a rally to support security services after shooting at Karak castle, in Amman, Jordan, December 23, 2016. The placards read, “Martyrs of the Karak”. (Photo by Muhammad Hamed/Reuters)





A police office stands next to wreckage of a bus that crashed into a semi-trailer, which resulted in multiple fatalities in Calajahuira on the outskirts of La Paz, Bolivia, December 23, 2016. (Photo by David Mercado/Reuters)





A police office stands next to wreckage of a bus that crashed into a semi-trailer, which resulted in multiple fatalities in Calajahuira on the outskirts of La Paz, Bolivia, December 23, 2016. (Photo by David Mercado/Reuters)





A policeman walks next to wreckage of a bus that crashed into a semi-trailer, which resulted in multiple fatalities in Calajahuira outskirts of La Paz, Bolivia, December 23, 2016. (Photo by David Mercado/Reuters)





Two hijackers of a Libyan Afriqiyah Airways Airbus A320 surrender to Maltese military on the runway at Malta Airport, December 23, 2016. (Photo by Darrin Zammit-Lupi/Reuters)





A Maltese military vehicle stands near a hijacked Libyan Afriqiyah Airways Airbus A320 on the runway at Malta Airport, December 23, 2016. (Photo by Darrin Zammit-Lupi/Reuters)





Two hijackers of a Libyan Afriqiyah Airways Airbus A320 surrender to Maltese military on the runway at Malta Airport, December 23, 2016. (Photo by Darrin Zammit-Lupi/Reuters)





Maltese troops survey a hijacked Libyan Afriqiyah Airways Airbus A320 on the runway at Malta Airport, December 23, 2016. (Photo by Darrin Zammit-Lupi/Reuters)





Two hijackers of a Libyan Afriqiyah Airways Airbus A320 surrender to Maltese military on the runway at Malta Airport, December 23, 2016. (Photo by Darrin Zammit-Lupi/Reuters)





Special forces enter the hijacked Afriqiyah Airways airplane at the Malta International Airport in Luqa, Malta, 23 December 2016. The plane of Libyan carrier Afriqiyah Airways with 118 people on board landed in Malta after being hijacked and diverted during its internal flight in the North African country. The two hijackers were detained by police after all passengers and crew members were freed. (Photo by Domenic Aquilina/EPA)





Two hijackers of a Libyan Afriqiyah Airways Airbus A320 surrender to Maltese military on the runway at Malta Airport, December 23, 2016. (Photo by Darrin Zammit-Lupi/Reuters)





A girl holding a Palestinian flag sits on the ground as an Israeli border policewoman stands guard during a protest against the Israeli barrier, in the West Bank village of Bilin near Ramallah December 23, 2016. (Photo by Mohamad Torokman/Reuters)





French Beatles collector and specialist Jacques Volcouve, one of the world's greatest living experts of the band, poses at his home, in Paris, France, December 23, 2016, with a part of the 15,000 items going on sale at Drouot auction house in Paris on next March 18, 2017. (Photo by Christian Hartmann/Reuters)





Journalist and police observe the destruction of about one ton of fireworks confiscated to illegal vendors before the Christmas and New Year holidays, in Lima, Peru, December 23, 2016. (Photo by Mariana Bazo/Reuters)





People attend the “Weihnachtssingen”, a candle-lit carol concert with 28500 fans of the second-division club FC Union Berlin at the Alte Foersterei stadium in Berlin, Germany, December 23, 2016. (Photo by Hannibal Hanschke/Reuters)





In this photo taken on Tuesday, December 20, 2016, dancers of the U.S. company “Catapult” create a group of ostriches, during their show “Magic Shadows”, in Milan, Italy. Dancers in the company create shadow sculptures with their bodies, giving a contemporary twist to the ancient Chinese art of shadow theaters. (Photo by Luca Bruno/AP Photo)





A diver wearing Santa Claus costume in a water tank performs with a clown outside the tank during a part of events to celebrate the upcoming Christmas at the Aqua Planet aquarium in Goyang, South Korea, Friday, December 23, 2016. (Photo by Lee Jin-man/AP Photo)





This handout picture released by Wroclaw Medical University Hospital on December 22, 2016 shows surgeons attaching a hand from a deceased donor to a man born without one at at Wroclaw Medical University Hospital. Surgeons in Poland said Thursday they had successfully attached a hand from a deceased donor to a man born without one, in what they claimed was a world first. Up to now, a similar procedure had been performed only on newborn conjoined twins in Indonesia and Canada. Hands have also been grafted onto patients whose own limbs were amputated. The transplant to the wrist was performed on Dec. 15 in an operation that lasted 13 hours. The patient, identified by his first name Piotr, was all smiles after the procedure and spoke of his dream for the future. As of today, he can only move his fingers and not the hand itself, but doctors are optimistic that he will gain more mobility over time. The operation could open up new possibilities to hundreds of thousands of people in the world born without members whose only option to date has been prostheses. (Photo by Wroclaw University/AFP Photo)





A chimpanzee examines his holiday gifts at the Lion Country Safari in Loxahatchee, Fla., on Thursday, December 22, 2016. The chimps received edible treats, stuffed animals, clothes and enrichment-themed activities. (Photo by Allen Eyestone/Palm Beach Post via AP Photo)





Young Chinese ice skaters wearing traditional costumes perform at a Christmas event “The Song of Joy on Ice” at a shopping mall in Beijing, Friday, December 23, 2016. Although Christmas is not traditionally celebrated in China, shopping malls welcome the festival with organizing activities to attract shoppers as a chance to boost year end sales. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)