Thais offer food to a Buddhist novice monk during the Mass Alms Giving religious ceremony at the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration City Hall in Bangkok, Thailand, 01 January 2017. Thai people gathered to offer food and essentials to 189 Buddhist monks during the ceremony to mark the New Year. (Photo byRungroj Yongrit/EPA)





Artists perform a dragon dance under a shower of sparks from molten iron to celebrate the new year in Suining, Sichuan province, China December 31, 2016. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





People view the sunrise scene at the Bund in Shanghai, east China, January 1, 2017. (Photo by Wang Hechun/Xinhua/Barcroft Images)





A general view of the leftovers of thousands of people who gathered at the Puerta del Sol in Madrid, Spain, following the New Year celebrations early 01 January 2017. (Photo by Santi Donaire/EPA)





French police officers patrol the Champs Elysees, during the New Year celebrations in Paris, France, Sunday, January1, 2017. (Photo by Christophe Ena/AP Photo)





Police and rescue workers search a boat for victims at Muara Angke port in Jakarta, Indonesia January 1, 2017. (Photo by Darren Whiteside/Reuters)





Afghan refugee Rukhsar Sameem, 4, covers her face with a teddy bear while playing at the refugee camp of Oinofyta about 58 kilometers (36 miles) north of Athens, Saturday, December 31, 2016. Over 62,000 refugees and migrants are stranded in Greece after a series of Balkan border closures and an European Union deal with Turkey to stop migrant flows. (Photo by Muhammed Muheisen/AP Photo)





General view of atmosphere at Miracle-Gro's “Everythings Coming Up Roses” float entry in the 128th Rose Parade. Float judging took place at Fiesta Parade Floats on Sunday, January 1, 2017, in Irwindale, Calif. (Photo by Casey Rodgers/Invision for Miracle-Gro/AP Images)





This photo taken on December 31, 2016 shows school children joining activities in remembrance of the Prophet Muhammed' s birthday on December 12, in Thailand' s restive southern province of Narathiwat. (Photo by Madaree Tohlala/AFP Photo)





A man takes an unconventional position as he rides his motorcycle on a highway, north of Fayoum, Egypt, Sunday, January 1 2017. (Photo by Nariman El-Mofty/AP Photo)





Crowds of revellers enjoy New Year's Day on a beach at Muizenberg in Cape Town, South Africa January 1, 2017. (Photo by Mike Hutchings/Reuters)





A woman is patted down at an entry point by an NYPD officer near Times Square in preparation for the New Year's celebration in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., December 31, 2016. (Photo by Stephen Yang/Reuters)





A reveler waits in long lines to enter Times Square in preparation for the New Year's celebration in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., December 31, 2016. (Photo by Stephen Yang/Reuters)





Members of the counter terrorism task force stand guard in Times Square on New Year's Eve in New York, U.S. December 31, 2016. (Photo by Stephanie Keith/Reuters)





People pass armed police officers as they patrol ahead of New Year's celebrations in London, Britain December 31, 2016. (Photo by Neil Hall/Reuters)





A man photographs fireworks as they explode by the Big Ben clocktower in London, Britain January 1, 2017. (Photo by Neil Hall/Reuters)





A woman poses for a photograph with armed police officers patrolling ahead of New Year's celebrations in London, Britain December 31, 2016. (Photo by Neil Hall/Reuters)





Police officers patrol before the start of New Year's celebrations at Puerta del Sol square in central Madrid, Spain December 31, 2016. (Photo by Susana Vera/Reuters)





People wait in line to go through a security check before the start of New Year's celebrations at Puerta del Sol square in central Madrid, Spain December 31, 2016. (Photo by Susana Vera/Reuters)





Police carry out security checks before the start of New Year's celebrations at Puerta del Sol square in central Madrid, Spain December 31, 2016. (Photo by Susana Vera/Reuters)





U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and his wife Melania Trump arrive for a New Year's Eve celebration with members and guests at the Mar-a-lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. December 31, 2016. (Photo by Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)





A man wearing a “El Diablo” (The Devil) mask crosses the Becerril river during the “Los Carochos” winter masquerade in Riofrio de Aliste, Spain, January 1, 2017. (Photo by Juan Medina/Reuters)





A man wearing a “El Diablo” (The Devil) mask poses during the “Los Carochos” winter masquerade in Riofrio de Aliste, Spain, January 1, 2017. (Photo by Juan Medina/Reuters)





A view of the Harpa concert hall which held the New Year's countdown to 2017, in Reykjavik, Iceland, January 1, 2017. (Photo by Reuters/Geirix)





People gather at Hallgrims church to celebrate the New Year in Reykjavik, Iceland, January 1, 2017. (Photo by Reuters/Geirix)





People gather at Hallgrims church to celebrate the New Year in Reykjavik, Iceland, January 1, 2017. (Photo by Reuters/Geirix)





Clowns perform on stage at the One Lagos fiesta at the Bar beach in Victoria Island in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos December 31, 2016. (Photo by Akintunde Akinleye/Reuters)





A man roasts meat popularly known as “Suya” outside the venue at One Lagos fiesta at the Bar beach in Victoria Island in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos December 31, 2016. (Photo by Akintunde Akinleye/Reuters)





Artistes perform on stage at the One Lagos fiesta at the Bar beach in Victoria Island in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos December 31, 2016. (Photo by Akintunde Akinleye/Reuters)





A man and a boy offer prayers on the first day of the new year at Meiji Shrine in Tokyo, Japan, January 1, 2017. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





Confetti falls as the clock strikes midnight during New Year celebrations in Times Square in New York, January 1, 2017. (Photo by Mark Kauzlarich/Reuters)





New York Police Department counter-snipers stand on a hotel balcony as they look at the New Year's Eve festivities in Times Square below in New York, December 31, 2016. (Photo by Mark Kauzlarich/Reuters)





“Sushi”, portrayed by female impersonator Gary Marion, hangs in a giant replica of a woman's red high heel over Duval Street during the “Red Shoe Drop” New Year event at the Bourbon St. Pub in Key West, Florida in this late December 31, 2016 handout photo. (Photo by Rob O'Neal/Reuters/Florida Keys News Bureau)





The Sunnyside Social Club performs at the celebration for the completion of the Second Avenue Subway with New Year's Eve inaugural ride in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., December 31, 2016. (Photo by Elizabeth Shafiroff/Reuters)





An American flag is seen next to artwork at the celebration for the completion of the Second Avenue Subway with New Year's Eve inaugural ride in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., December 31, 2016. (Photo by Elizabeth Shafiroff/Reuters)





Service personnel and civilians lay flowers before the bronze statue of leader Kim Jong Il on New Year's Day in this photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang January 1, 2017. (Photo by Reuters/KCNA)





North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits Kumsusan Palace Of The Sun to express his respects for former North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il on the new year in this undated picture provided by KCNA in Pyongyang on January 1, 2017. (Photo by Reuters/KCNA)





A pro-China protester (R) who is against Hong Kong independence argues with protesters taking part in a pro-democracy march in Hong Kong, China January 1, 2017. (Photo by Bobby Yip/Reuters)





An African migrant stands on top of a border fence as Spanish police stand guard below during a failed attempt to cross into Spanish territories, between Morocco and Spain's north African enclave of Ceuta, January 1, 2017. (Photo by Jose Antonio Sempere/Reuters)





Iraqi security forces carry weapons during a battle with Islamic State militants in the Intisar district of eastern Mosul, Iraq, January 1, 2017. (Photo by Khalid al Mousily/Reuters)





Displaced Iraqi civilians, who fled the Islamic State stronghold of Mosul, are seen in the Intisar district of eastern Mosul, Iraq, January 1, 2017. (Photo by Khalid al Mousily/Reuters)





An Iraqi security forces member sits in a military vehicle during a battle with Islamic State militants in the Intisar district of eastern Mosul, Iraq, January 1, 2017. (Photo by Khalid al Mousily/Reuters)





Police search members of the public attending a New Year's Day service at St. Mary Magdalene church in Sandringham, Britain, January 1, 2017. (Photo by Peter Nicholls/Reuters)





Competitors arrive in fancy dress before taking part in the New Year's Day swim at Saundersfoot in Wales, Britain, January 1, 2017. (Photo by Rebecca Naden/Reuters)





Members of The Ashdown Forrest Morris Men enjoy a dance and a drink at The New Inn pub in Hadlow Down, southern England, Britain January 1, 2017. (Photo by Dylan Martinez/Reuters)





Chilean miners take part in a protest at the Santa Ana coal mine, demanding that the government provide funding for the mine's reopening, in Curanilahue, Chile December 31, 2016. (Photo by Mauro Medel/Reuters)





Archers fire arrows into the sea as part of a Claiming of the Waters tradition at the 800-year-old Hook Head lighthouse in Hook Head, Ireland January 1, 2017. (Photo by Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters)





An archer fires an arrow into the sea as part of a Claiming of the Waters tradition at the 800-year-old Hook Head lighthouse in Hook Head, Ireland January 1, 2017. (Photo by Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters)





The 800-year-old Hook Head lighthouse is seen on New Year's day after the Claiming of the Waters ceremony in Hook Head, Ireland January 1, 2017. (Photo by Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters)





Migrants, who are part of a group intercepted aboard a dinghy off the coast in the Mediterranean sea, are assisted by members of Spanish Red Cross after arriving on a rescue boat at a port in Malaga, southern Spain, January 1, 2017. (Photo by Jon Nazca/Reuters)





People in costumes take part in the “Los Carochos” winter masquerade in Riofrio de Aliste, Spain, January 1, 2017. (Photo by Juan Medina/Reuters)





A Houthi militant attends a parade held by newly recruited Houthi fighters in Sanaa, Yemen, January 1, 2017. (Photo by Khaled Abdullah/Reuters)





A boy carries a rifle during a parade held by newly recruited Houthi fighters in Sanaa, Yemen, January 1, 2017. (Photo by Khaled Abdullah/Reuters)





Boys hold rifles as they ride on the back of a military truck during a parade held by newly recruited Houthi fighters in Sanaa, Yemen, January 1, 2017. (Photo by Khaled Abdullah/Reuters)





Activists of the Svoboda (Freedom) Ukrainian nationalist party hold torches as they take part in a rally to mark the 108th birth anniversary of Stepan Bandera, one of the founders of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), in Kiev, Ukraine, January 1, 2017. (Photo by Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters)





Activists of the Svoboda (Freedom) Ukrainian nationalist party hold torches as they take part in a rally to mark the 108th birth anniversary of Stepan Bandera, one of the founders of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), in Kiev, Ukraine, January 1, 2017. (Photo by Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters)





Activists of the Svoboda (Freedom) Ukrainian nationalist party hold flrares and torches as they take part in a rally to mark the 108th birth anniversary of Stepan Bandera, one of the founders of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), in Kiev, Ukraine, January 1, 2017. (Photo by Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters)





People prepare to participate in the annual Polar Bear Plunge in Coney Island in the Brooklyn Borough of New York City, U.S. January 1, 2017. (Photo by Stephanie Keith/Reuters)





A child wounded by mortar shells in Mosul lies in a hospital west of Erbil, Iraq, January 1, 2017. (Photo by Ari Jalal/Reuters)





A child wounded by mortar shells in Mosul lies in a hospital west of Erbil, Iraq, January 1, 2017. (Photo by Ari Jalal/Reuters)





Chinese biker Jen Richie gestures during a technical checkup in Asuncion, on December 31, 2016, ahead of the 2017 Dakar Rally, which this year will thunder through Paraguay, Argentina and Bolivia from January 2 to 14. (Photo by Franck Fife/AFP Photo)





A Chinese woman wearing a mask and a pair of sunglasses prays while holding burning joss sticks on the first day of the New Year at Yonghegong Lama Temple in Beijing, on a heavily polluted day, Sunday, January 1, 2017. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





Handmade puppets made by a local craftsman are displayed before New Year's Eve in Leon, near Managua on December 31, 2016. The puppets, made from old clothes to represent the past year, are traditionally burned at the New Year as a way of saying goodbye to the old year and welcoming the new. (Photo by Inti Ocon/AFP Photo)





Firefighters work to extinguish flames in the building above a pub in London, Sunday, January 1, 2017. People all over the country celebrated into the New Year with fireworks. (Photo by Frank Augstein/AP Photo)





An injured woman is carried to an ambulance from a nightclub where a gun attack took place during a New Year party in Istanbul, Turkey, January 1, 2017. (Photo by Murat Ergin/Reuters/Ihlas News Agency)





People flee from a nightclub where a gun attack took place during a New Year party in Istanbul, Turkey, January 1, 2017. (Photo by Akin Celiktas/Reuters/Dogan News Agency)





A Turkish police officers stands guard on the site of an armed attack January 1, 2017 in Istanbul. At least two people were killed in an armed attack Saturday on an Istanbul nightclub where people were celebrating the New Year, Turkish television reports said. (Photo by Yasin Akgul/AFP Photo)





Relatives and friends mourn at a coffin during the funeral of Ayhan Arik, one of the 39 victims of the gun attack on the Reina, a popular night club in Istanbul near by the Bosphorus shores, in Istanbul, January 1, 2017, Turkey. According to Turkey's interior minister Suleyman Soylu at least 39 people, including at least 15 foreigners have been killed dead and 40 wounded at terror attack at Istanbul's famous night club of Reina in Bosphorus shores in the new year party. (Photo by Burak Kara/Getty Images)





Sisters of Elias Wardini, a Lebanese man who was killed in the overnight Istanbul attack, mourn at their house, In Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday January 1, 2017. Charbel Wardini told The Associated Press on Sunday that his brother, Elias, was among those who died in the attack at the crowded nightclub during New Year's celebrations, that killed at least 39 people. Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said seven Lebanese were wounded in the attack. (Photo by Hussein Malla/AP Photo)





Women who survived an attack by a gunman, react outisde the Reina nightclub by the Bosphorus, in Istanbul, Turkey, January 1, 2017. (Photo by Huseyin Aldemir/Reuters)





A former employee of the Reina nightclub reacts outside following an attack by a gunman in Istanbul, Turkey, January 1, 2017. (Photo by Huseyin Aldemir/Reuters)





A taxi driver lies dead in his car after being shot shortly before midnight in a busy street in Acapulco early Sunday, January 1, 2017. At least five people were killed over the New Year's weekend in the Mexican resort city of Acapulco, including three men found decapitated in a central neighborhood. (Photo by Bernandino Hernandez/AP Photo)





Young ballet dancers perform between the audience during the traditional New Year’s Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra at the Golden Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria, Sunday, January 1, 2017. (Photo by Ronald Zak/AP Photo)





“We Are Hull” by Zolst Balogh with original soundtrack by Dan Jones, at Queen Victoria Square for Sean McAllisters Made in Hull, as part of the official opening of Hull UK City of Culture on January 1, 2017 in Hull, England. (Photo by Nigel Roddis/Getty Images for Hull Uk City Of Culture 2017)