January 1, 2016

A party hat lies on the ground after New Year's celebrations in Times Square in the Manhattan borough of New York.

Smoke billows from the Address Downtown Hotel in Dubai in the aftermath of a huge fire that engulfed several floors of the building. The fire ripped through the luxury Dubai hotel late on Dec. 31, 2015.

People pray on the first day of the new year at the Shinto Meiji Shrine in Tokyo, Japan.

Volunteers from non-governmental organizations (NGO) arrange more than 2,500 discarded lifejackets, used by refugees and migrants, in the shape of the peace symbol on the Greek island of Lesbos.

"Le Jardin" restaurant, popular with foreigners and Afghan officials, is on fire after a suicide attack in Kabul. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the explosion Friday.

Cheerleaders from the U.S. prepare to take part in a New Year's Day Parade in central London, England.

Kashmiri Muslims women react upon seeing a relic believed to be hair from the beard of Prophet Mohammed, on display on the Friday following the festival of Eid-e-Milad-ul-Nabi at Hazratbal shrine in Srinagar, India.

An elderly woman stands outside her house in Havana, Cuba, Dec. 31, 2015.

A runner is dressed in a costume depicting the Rio 2016 Olympic torch, decorated with a figure of Jamaica's Usain Bolt and a pill, before the annual "Sao Silvestre Run" (Saint Silvester Road Race), an international race through the streets of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Dec. 31, 2015.

Two deer lock horns during the annual rutting season in Richmond Park in west London, Britain, Jan. 1, 2016.