A dachshund portraying a racehorse, trots down Duval Street in Key West, Florida, December 31, 2014. About 175 dachshunds and other dogs participated in the event that preludes four warm-weather takeoffs on New York City's Times Square ball drop. (Photo by Steve Panariello/Reuters/Florida Keys News Bureau)
Up Helly Aa vikings from the Shetland Islands hold lit torches during the annual torchlight procession to mark the start of Hogmanay (New Year) celebrations in Edinburgh, Scotland December 30, 2014. The annual torchlight procession finishes with a fireworks display at Calton Hill in Edinburgh. (Photo by Russell Cheyne/Reuters)
Up Helly Aa vikings from the Shetland Islands hold lit torches during the annual torchlight procession to mark the start of Hogmanay (New Year) celebrations in Edinburgh, Scotland December 30, 2014. (Photo by Russell Cheyne/Reuters)
Up Helly Aa vikings from the Shetland Islands hold lit torches during the annual torchlight procession to mark the start of Hogmanay (New Year) celebrations in Edinburgh, Scotland December 30, 2014. (Photo by Russell Cheyne/Reuters)
Rebel fighters of al-Jabha al-Islamiya (the Islamic Front) prepare an improvised explosive to fire towards forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, at the frontline near Nairab military airport in Aleppo December 30, 2014. (Photo by Hosam Katan/Reuters)
A partially collapsed wall at the Morton Salt facility gave way to tons of salt being dumped onto parked cars at an adjacent car dealership in Chicago, Illinois, December 30, 2014. No injuries were reported in the incident but several cars were covered in salt. (Photo by Andrew Nelles/Reuters)
A security guard stands in front of a 3D painting outside a “haunted house” in Hefei, Anhui province December 31, 2014. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)
Japanese tourist kids get their picture taken at a “Shave Ice” stand on the North Shore in Haleiwa near where U.S. President Barack Obama and family were visiting a friend, Bobby Titcomb's house, for a luau during Obama's Christmas holiday vacation in Haleiwa, Hawaii, December 30, 2014. (Photo by Hugh Gentry/Reuters)
A member of the Philippine National Police (PNP) Explosive Ordnance Disposal inspects some confiscated firecrackers locally name “Judas Belt” before a scheduled destruction of various prohibited firecrackers at a police station in Manila December 31, 2014. The government urged the public to refrain from using prohibited firecrackers and use alternative noise makers during the New Year revelry. Firecracker-related injuries has risen to 162 this year, the Philippine Department of Health reported on Tuesday. (Photo by Romeo Ranoco/Reuters)
An African migrant reacts upon arriving at CETI, the short-stay immigrant centre, after crossing the border from Morocco to Spain's North African enclave of Melilla December 31, 2014. More than 50 migrants managed to pass the border fence and are currently held at CETI, local authorities said. (Photo by Jesus Blasco de Avellaneda/Reuters)
A man hangs an “Ema”, a wooden plaque with people's wishes or prayers, on a hook during ceremonies bidding farewell to 2014, ahead of New Year's Day, at the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo December 31, 2014. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)
Stefan Kraft from Austria soars through the air during the practice for the second jumping of the 63rd four-hills ski jumping tournament in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, southern Germany, December 31, 2014. The prestigious four-hills tournament will end in Bischofshofen on January 6. (Photo by Michael Dalder/Reuters)
Carlos Magno, 54, raises his fist after travelling 2,500 km from Belem in a Volkswagen Fusca to attend the inauguration of President Dilma Rousseff, in front of the Planalto Palace in Brasilia December 31, 2014. Rousseff's inauguration is scheduled to take place on January 1, 2015. (Photo by Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters)
Streetlamps are covered in snow and ice outside a restaurant on the peak of the Feldberg mountain, 20km (12.4 miles) outside of Frankfurt, December 31, 2014. (Photo by Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters)
A television crew stands in front of the municipality building lighted up to form the Euro sign in Vilnius December 31, 2014. Lithuania will join euro zone on January 1, 2015. (Photo by Ints Kalnins/Reuters)
An airplane towing a banner reading “De Blasio, apologize to the NYPD” flies over the Hudson River in New York December 31, 2014. Police union leaders said their grievances with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio remained unresolved after meeting with him on Tuesday, 10 days after they said he was partly to blame for a gunman's deadly attack on two policemen. (Photo by Carlo Allegri/Reuters)
A dachshund portraying a racehorse, trots down Duval Street in Key West, Florida, December 31, 2014. About 175 dachshunds and other dogs participated in the event that preludes four warm-weather takeoffs on New York City's Times Square ball drop. (Photo by Steve Panariello/Reuters/Florida Keys News Bureau)
U.S. soldiers from Dragon Troop of the 3rd Cavalry Regiment take part in their last exercise of 2014 near forward operating base Gamberi in Laghman province December 31, 2014. (Photo by Lucas Jackson/Reuters)
Revelers kick and jump over a burning pile of handmade puppets on the streets of Quito December 31, 2014. Traditionally at the end of the year Ecuadorians burn puppets to symbolize the end of the old and bad and the starting of the good and new. (Photo by Guillermo Granja/Reuters)
Revelers burn a pile of handmade puppets to kick and jump over, on the streets of Quito December 31, 2014. (Photo by Guillermo Granja/Reuters)
Revelers dress as “crazy widows” and pretend to ask for money to pay off debts in the past year, during traditional New Year's celebrations in Quito December 31, 2014. (Photo by Guillermo Granja/Reuters)
Revelers dress as “crazy widows” and pretend to ask for money to pay off debts in the past year, during traditional New Year's celebrations in Quito December 31, 2014. (Photo by Guillermo Granja/Reuters)
People look at enormous handmade puppets for New Year's celebrations, on the streets of Quito December 31, 2014. (Photo by Guillermo Granja/Reuters)
Residents salvage their belongings after a raging fire engulfed around 2,000 houses in Quezon city, metro Manila January 1, 2015. At least eight people, including a seven year-old child, died and thousands were displaced after a fire broke out in different locations in metro Manila as the New Year kicked off, local media reported. (Photo by Romeo Ranoco/Reuters)
Firefighters fight the fire at shanties from a creek in suburban Quezon city, north of Manila, Philippines during an early morning fire Thursday, January 1, 2015. (Photo by Bullit Marquez/AP Photo)
Residents save their pet dog as a huge fire rages along a creek in the suburban Quezon city north of Manila, Philippines, on New Year's day Thursday, January 1, 2015. A huge fire, believed to have been ignited by firecrackers, razed hundreds of shanties in the slum Thursday in one of more than a dozen fires reported across the country as Filipinos welcomed the New Year. (Photo by Bullit Marquez/AP Photo)
Pope Francis arrives to lead the New Year mass in Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican January 1, 2015. (Photo by Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters)
A Kathakali dancer attends the 31st Cochin Carnival at Fort Kochi in the southern Indian city of Kochi January 1, 2015. The Carnival is held annually to welcome the start of the New Year. (Photo by Sivaram V/Reuters)
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (C) talks to soldiers during a visit to Jobar, northeast of Damascus, in this handout photograph distributed by Syria's national news agency SANA on January 1, 2015. Al-Assad visited a district on the outskirts of Damascus and thanked soldiers fighting “in the face of terrorism”, his office said on its Twitter account on Wednesday, posting pictures of the rare trip. The account said the visit took place in Jobar, northeast of Damascus, on the occasion of the New Year. The district came under heavy Syrian air force strikes on Wednesday according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the nearly four-year conflict. (Photo by Reuters/SANA)
Traditional dancers perform during celebrations to mark Sudan's 59th Independence Day, in Khartoum January 1, 2015. Sudan became independent on January 1, 1956. (Photo by Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/Reuters)
A man uses an iron rod as he melts plastic recyclable material retrieved from a garbage dump, at a workshop in Peshawar January 1, 2015. (Photo by Fayaz Aziz/Reuters)
A U.S. soldier from Dragon Troop of the 3rd Cavalry Regiment fires a Javelin missile system during their first training exercise of the new year near operating base Gamberi in the Laghman province of Afghanistan January 1, 2015. (Photo by Lucas Jackson/Reuters)
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