December 28, 2015

Ethnic Dong children wearing traditional costumes attend Duoye Festival, in Sanjiang, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China.

The Waterford crystal ball is shown atop One Times Square during a media preview, Dec. 27, 2015, in New York. Hundreds of thousands of people in Times Square are expected to watch the ball drop at midnight on Dec. 31 to welcome the New Year.

Families of wounded Syrian opposition fighters wait for their release at the Lebanese border crossing point of Masnaa. Syrian opposition fighters, some on wheelchairs, stretchers or crutches left the Syrian mountain resort of Zabadani toward the Lebanon border, where they will be flown to Turkey.

Afghan shopkeeper watches from a broken window of his shop near the site of suicide car bomb attack in Kabul.

Maryna Gasienica Daniel of Poland falls as she competes during an alpine ski, women's World Cup Giant Slalom, in Lienz, Austria.

A heavily damaged area is seen in the aftermath of a tornado in Rowlett, Texas, Dec. 27, 2015. At least 11 people lost their lives as tornadoes tore through Texas, authorities said, as they searched home to home for possible more victims of the freak storms lashing the southern United States.

A graduate of the Brazil's School of Santa Claus gets his beard trimmed by students in Rio de Janeiro.

This handout photo released by Queensland Rail shows a derailed freight train carrying approximately 200,000 liters of sulphuric acid east of Julia Creek in north-west Queensland. The authorities have declared an emergency under the Public Safety Preservation Act and have placed a two-kilometer exclusion zone around the crash site.

A firefighter gathers hoses while fighting a forest fire near the Basque town of Berango, near Bilbao, northern Spain.

Tourists walk above a tea plantation in Enshi, Hubei province, China, Dec. 27, 2015.

More than 1,000 eggs are boiled with spices in a pot during a "crazy egg eating" game in Qingyuan, Guangdong province, China, Dec. 27, 2015.