Nepalese children practice Takenwondo and Karate as they attend a self-defense training class during early morning in Kathmandu, Nepal, 15 December 2015. The Lainchour Takenwondo Dojang organizes classes for more than 70 children aged between seven and 18-year-old at a community ground in Kathmandu. Students attend everyday three-hour-long classes which they have to pay 400 Nepalese rupee (four US dollar) per month. Most of the students say that they come to the Takenwondo class for physical fitness and self-defense. (Photo by Narendra Shrestha/EPA)




The Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz TMA-19M space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station, ISS, blasts off at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Tuesday, December 15, 2015. The Russian rocket carries British astronaut Tim Peake, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and U.S. astronaut Tim Kopra. (Photo by Dmitry Lovetsk/AP Photoy)





Photographers take pictures as the Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft carrying the crew of Timothy Peake of Britain, Yuri Malenchenko of Russia and Timothy Kopra of the U.S. as it blasts off to the International Space Station (ISS) from the launchpad at the Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, December 15, 2015. (Photo by Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters)





In this handout image supplied by NASA, The Soyuz TMA-19M rocket with Expedition 46 Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Flight Engineer Tim Kopra of NASA, and Flight Engineer Tim Peake of ESA (European Space Agency) launches into space from Baikonur cosmodrome on December 15, 2015 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Soyuz TMA-19M is carrying crew members Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Flight Engineer Tim Kopra of NASA, and Flight Engineer Tim Peake of ESA (European Space Agency) to the International Space Station for a six-month mission, as part of Expedition 46. (Photo by Joel Kowsky via Getty Images/NASA)





The Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft carrying the crew of Timothy Peake of Britain, Yuri Malenchenko of Russia and Timothy Kopra of the U.S. blasts off to the International Space Station (ISS) from the launchpad at the Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, December 15, 2015. (Photo by Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters)





Dante Cicerone, 15, (R) and his twin brother Georgie dress up as Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump as they attend a rally in Las Vegas, Nevada December 14, 2015. (Photo by Mike Blake/Reuters)





A Kashmiri Muslim man prays outside the shrine of Sufi Saint Khawja Naqshband on his death anniversary in Srinagar December 15, 2015. Hundreds of Kashmiri Muslims, who believe in Sufism, thronged the shrine of the saint on his death anniversary and offered annual congregational prayers called “Khoja Digar” on the 3rd of Rabi-ul-Awwal, the third month of the Islamic calendar. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)





A man cycles past a house decorated as a Christmas present in Scholar Green northern Britain, December 15, 2015. (Photo by Phil Noble/Reuters)





Relatives of Siyar Salman mourn over his grave during a funeral ceremony in the Kurdish dominated southeastern city of Diyarbakir, Turkey, December 15, 2015. According to local media, Salman, a 19-year old man, was killed on Monday in Diyarbakir during a protest against the curfew in Sur district. (Photo by Sertac Kayar/Reuters)





An armed Kurdish militant throws back a tear gas canister towards Turkish riot police during clashes in the Okmeydani district of Istanbul following a demonstration against recent curfews imposed on Kurdish towns on December 15, 2015. The Turkish government has been waging a relentless offensive aimed at crippling the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has staged a string of attacks against security forces in Turkey since a two-year-old ceasefire fell apart in late July. Clashes have been erupting in Turkey amid growing anger over the imposition of curfews to back up anti-PKK operations. (Photo by Cagdas Erdogan/AFP Photo)





A woman takes pictures of a nativity scene in which Jesus is represented by the lifeless body of three-year-old Syrian refugee Aylan Kurdi, who made global headlines after he drowned in the Mediterranean Sea as his family attempted to enter Europe from Turkey, in the San Anton church in Madrid, Spain, December 15, 2015. (Photo by Andrea Comas/Reuters)





Bus passengers view the Christmas lights display along Regent Street in central London in Britain December 15, 2015. (Photo by Toby Melville/Reuters)





A giant panda stands inside its enclosure at the Bifengxia panda breeding centre in Ya'an, Sichuan province, in China, in this file photo from September 22, 2014. Scientists studying captive breeding of the endangered bamboo-eating bears said December 15, 2015 pandas are far more likely to successfully mate and produce cubs when they show through a complex series of behaviors a preference for a potential mate. (Photo by Benoit Tessier/Reuters)





A member of the “Sibspas” Siberian search and rescue group dressed as Santa Claus (R), waits for his team mate, dressed as Father Frost, the Russian equivalent of Santa Claus, as he climbs the rock named “The Fourth Stolb” (the Fourth Pillar) at the Stolby national nature reserve during a training session of the Russian Emergencies Ministry, outside the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia December 15, 2015. (Photo by Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)





Children make their way down a slide made entirely of ice, part of the ICE! event at Maryland's National Harbor just outside of Washington December 15, 2015. ICE! is a walk-through holiday attraction, kept at a chilly 9 degrees, containing two million pounds of hand-carved holiday themed ice sculptures and five ice slides. (Photo by Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)





A young girl makes her way down a slide made entirely of ice, part of the ICE! event at Maryland's National Harbor just outside of Washington December 15, 2015. (Photo by Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)





A plane landing in Washington's Reagan National Airport passes a Christmas tree and the “Capital Wheel” at National Harbor in Maryland December 15, 2015. (Photo by Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)





The night sky and artificial light of the city are seen outside the Gemini Observatory at the Cerro Las Campanas, on the outskirts of La Serena, Chile, April 14, 2011 in this handout photo provided by Gemini Observatory/AURA, December 14, 2015. (Photo by Manuel Paredes/Reuters/Gemini Observatory/AURA)





Performers (L) meet a man dressed in a panda costume as they parade in Hong Kong on December 15, 2015 to promote a funfair and festival taking place during the Christmas festive season. Christmas is celebrated worldwide on December 25. (Photo by Philippe Lope/AFP Photo)





A crashed car in a railway pedestrian underpass in Bad Staffelstein, Germany, 14 December 2015. A man with a 2.5 per mille blood alcohol level crashed into the underpass after going into a corner too fast and coming off the road. (Photo by EPA/News5/Merzbach)





A Romanian shepherd (C) jumps off while his colleagues wave flags and shout slogans after climbing the protective fence surrounding parliament's yard, in front of Romania's Parliament Palace (background), during a protest in Bucharest, Romania, 15 December 2015. Up to one thousand of farmers from all over the country, organized by their trade union confederation, gathered to protest against the government's shepherd regulating policies, demanding greater state-subsidies for the traditional rural farming system. Shepherds stormed the Parliament fence, forcing the entrance gates while scuffling with riot police, occupying a part of the parliament yard. The new laws restrict the rights of grazing during the winter, as well as the maximum number of shepherd dogs for a traditional style of shepherding with a history of thousands of years. (Photo by Robert Ghement/EPA)





Mount Bromo spews volcanic material and ash into the air during an eruption in Probolinggo, East Java, Indonesia 15 December 2015. Indonesian authorities raised the alert status of the Mount Bromo after the volcano's activities increased. (Photo by EPA/Suryanto)





Christmas lights are displayed on houses in Trinity Close in Burnham-on-Sea on December 14, 2015 in Somerset, England. Each year a number of house in the close put on a display of thousands of festive lights which raises tens of thousands of pounds for various charities including local cancer hospital and will be lit every night until January 5. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)





A man in a space suit watches a television with school children at the Science Museum ahead of the launch of space mission Principia from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on December 15, 2015 in London, United Kingdom. European Space Agency Astronaut Tim Peake is a former British Army Air Corps Officer and is the first publicly funded Briton in Space. He should arrive at the International Space Station (ISS) at 6.30pm GMT and will spend the next six months maintaining the ISS and conducting experiments. (Photo by Ben Pruchnie/Getty Images)





Jason Nudelman, 37, of Olyphant, Pa., uses his 4-foot stilts to hang Christmas lights on his mother's 18-foot pine tree in front of her home on West Lackawanna Avenue in Blakely, Pa., Monday, December 14, 2015. Nudelman said, “I'm taking advantage of the warm weather”, as he was putting up over 1,000 individual lights. (Photo by Butch Comegys/The Times & Tribune via AP Photo)





Filipino evacuees walk on a path with debris in the typhoon-hit town of Juban, Sorsogon province, southern Philippines, 15 December 2015. Typhoon Melor weakened slightly as it barreled through the Philippine islands. causing power outages in towns and cities along its path and forcing thousands to flee their homes, officials said. It said 733,150 people had fled their homes amid threats of sea surges, flash floods and landslides. (Photo by Rancis R. Malasig/EPA)





A mural is seen with a slum in the background on the bank of the Rio Negro (Black River), in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil on December 11, 2015. (Photo by Christophe Simon/AFP Photo)