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Fireworks explode off Auckland's Sky Tower as the new year is welcomed to New Zealand, Jan 1, 2017. (Peter Meecham/New Zealand Herald via AP)Fireworks explode over the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge as New Year's celebrations are underway in Sydney, Australia, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)Buddhists light candles during New Year celebrations at Jogye Buddhist temple in Seoul, South Korea, early Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon).North Koreans gather to watch a New Year's fireworks display at the Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Kim Kwang Hyon)People release balloons into the air to celebrate New Year, during a New Year celebration event at a Tokyo Hotel, early Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)Fireworks light up the sky to welcome the New Year at the Mall of Asia, the country's largest shopping mall Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017 in suburban Pasay city south of Manila, Philippines. The country's notorious tradition of dangerous New Year's Eve celebrations persisted after President Rodrigo Duterte delayed to next year his ban on the use of powerful firecrackers, often worsened by celebratory gunfire. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)Fireworks explode above Singapore's financial district at the stroke of midnight to mark the New Year's celebrations on Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017, in Singapore. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)Fire crackers explode above the Hotel Indonesia Roundabout during New Year's eve in the main business district in Jakarta, Indonesia, Saturday, Dec. 31, 2016. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)Fireworks explode in front of Malaysia's landmark building, Petronas Twin Towers, during the New Year's Eve celebration in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, early Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Lim Huey Teng)Fireworks explode over Victoria Harbour to celebrate the New Year's Eve in Hong Kong, early Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)Residents wear masks against heavy pollution near the Olympic Towers after a countdown to the New Year event in Beijing, China, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)An Indian man lights firecrackers on the street during the New Year celebration in Mumbai, India, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)Visitors walk around the Uppatasanti Pagoda on the new year day in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, on Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo)A Sri Lankan woman, left, lights oil lamps as other devotees carry various offerings at a Buddhist temple on the New Year's eve in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, Dec. 31, 2016. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)Fireworks explode at the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, and surrounding skyscrapers to mark New Year in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Saturday, Dec. 31, 2016. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)Iraqi internally displaced children having their faces painted during New Year's celebrations at the Hassan Sham camp, east of Mosul, Iraq, Saturday, Dec 31, 2016. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)Fireworks explode over the Kremlin in Red Square which was blocked by police during New Year celebrations in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017. New Year's Eve is Russia's major gift-giving holiday, and big Russian cities were awash in festive lights and decorations. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr)Lights illuminate the historical site of Giza Pyramids and Sphinx to celebrate the New Year in Egypt, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)People let balloons and lanterns go in the air in Istanbul's Ortakoy district by the Bosphorus, during New Year's cerebrations early Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)People celebrate the New Year at Sophia Square near the St. Sophia Cathedral in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)Spectators watch fireworks in front of the Palace Kultury during the New Year celebrations in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017. Thousands of Warsaw residents took to the streets in the capital to usher in the New Year. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)A young woman writes '2017' using a sparkler during the New Year's Eve celebrations in Nyiregyhaza, 245 kms east of Budapest, Hungary, Saturday, Dec. 31, 2016. (Attila Balazs/MTI via AP)Fireworks light up the sky marking the centenary year of Finnish independence which kicks off on New Year's Eve, Saturday, Dec. 31, 2016 in the heart of the republic in Helsinki, Finland. (Jussi Nukari/Lehtikuva via AP)Pope Francis prays in front of a nativity scene in St. Peter's Square, after celebrating a new year's eve vespers Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Saturday, Dec. 31, 2016. (Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters pool via AP)Fireworks light the sky above the Quadriga at the Brandenburg Gate shortly after midnight in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017. Hundred thousands of people celebrated New Year's Eve welcoming the new year 2017 in Germany's capital. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)People celebrate New Year in the historic center in Brussels early Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)The 2017 appears during a firework over the Arc de Triomphe as part of the New Year celebrations on the Champs Elysees, in Paris, France, Sunday, Jan.1, 2017. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)Fireworks explode over Elizabeth Tower housing the Big Ben clock to celebrate the New Year in London, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017.(AP Photo/Frank Augstein)Backdropped by the Sugar Loaf Mountain, a woman offers flowers to Yemanja, goddess of the sea, for good luck in the coming year during New Year's Eve festivities on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, Dec. 31, 2016. The belief in the goddess comes from the African Yoruba religion brought to America by West African slaves. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)Runners wait to compete in the Sao Silvestre race in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Saturday, Dec. 31, 2016. The 15-kilometer race is held annually on New Year's Eve. (AP Photo/Nelson Antoine)People watch the fireworks exploding over Copacabana beach during the New Year's Eve celebrations in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)Fireworks explode behind the Peace Tower during a celebration on Parliament Hill on New Year's Eve, Saturday, Dec. 31, 2016 in Ottawa. Canada celebrates its 150th anniversary of Confederation in 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin TangIn this photo provided by the Florida Keys News Bureau, "Sushi," portrayed by female impersonator Gary Marion, hangs in a giant replica of a woman's red high heel over Duval Street late Saturday, Dec. 31, 2016, at the Bourbon St. Pub in Key West, Fla. The Red Shoe Drop is a Key West New Year's Eve tradition and is one of Florida Keys warm-weather takeoffs on New York City's Times Square ball drop marking the arrival of the new year. (Rob O'Neal/Florida Keys News Bureau via AP)Vail ski and snowboard instructors, some dressed up, help celebrate the New Year after the Torchlight Parade on Golden Peak, Saturday, Dec. 31, 2016, in Vail, Colo. More than 200 instructors and hundreds of Beavo ski school students participated, which followed with fireworks. (Chris Dillmann/Vail Daily via AP)The clock strikes midnight at the New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square on Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017, in New York. (Photo by Greg Allen/Invision/AP)Fireworks go off in Nathan Philips Square in Toronto as the New Year begins on Sunday, January 1, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Christopher KatsarovA reveler takes a selfie in the confetti during the new year celebration in New York's Times Square as seen from the Marriott Marquis, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017. 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Fireworks explode over the Las Vegas Strip during a New Year's Eve celebration Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)CP
Fireworks light up the sky to bring in the new year during the annual Chi-Town Rising New Year's Eve celebration, along Upper Wacker Drive, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017, in Chicago. (Alyssa Pointer/Chicago Tribune via AP)Colin Corneau
Alan Stitt and Shannon Ewasiuk take their children for a nighttime skate in Wasagaming to celebrate New Years Eve, Saturday night. The family went swimming earlier in the last day of 2016 and had the ice all to themselves.
(Colin Corneau/Brandon Sun)
