Residents in fox makeup participate in the Oji Fox parade to thank the outgoing and welcome the incoming year at the Oji Inari shrine in Tokyo late on December 31, 2017. (Photo by Toshifumi Kitamura/AFP Photo)
Competitors take part in the Red Bull Crashed Ice Cross Downhill World Championship in Marseille, France, January 14, 2017. (Photo by Jean-Paul Pelissier/Reuters)
A girl wearing a butterfly headband poses for a picture near damaged buildings in the rebel held besieged city of Douma, in the eastern Damascus suburb of Ghouta, Syria January 19, 2017. (Photo by Bassam Khabieh/Reuters)
Members of the Palestinian Hamas security forces show their skills as they take part in a graduation ceremony in Gaza City on January 22, 2017. (Photo by Mahmud Hams/AFP Photo)
School boys who attend Sri Lankan traditional dance training wait for their graduation ceremony at a Buddhist temple in Colombo, Sri Lanka January 23, 2017. (Photo by Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters)
A man sits under lanterns and decorations on a street ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year in Chinatown Yangon, Myanmar January 23, 2017. (Photo by Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters)