A street entertainer holds her cell phone in a pavilion during a minute of rest in downtown Moscow decorated for the New Year and Christmas, Russia, Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Guns and gloves of India’s Air Force soldiers lie on a road during rehearsals for the upcoming Republic Day parade in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2014. India marks Republic Day on Jan. 26 with military parades across the country. (AP Photo/Tsering Topgyal)
Children from Dofteana, northern Romania, some wearing bear furs, walk while performing a holiday season ritual in Bucharest, Romania, Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2014. In pre-Christian rural traditions, dancers wearing colored costumes or animal furs, touring house to house in villages singing and dancing to ward off evil. In recent years following the economic downturn in Romania, a European Union member since 2007, the tradition has moved to Romania’s cities where dancers travel to perform the ritual for money during the Christmas and New Year’s period. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
A passenger boards a new subway train in Milan, Italy, Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2014. The new train can transport 1.232 passengers. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
Pakistani boys enjoy jumping on a trampoline, at a makeshift entertainment park set up in a Christian neighborhood for Christmas holiday, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
A street decorated with New Year and Christmas illumination in the center of Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
A Pakistani Christian boy decorates a tree in preparation for the upcoming Christmas holiday in Islamabad’s slums, Pakistan, Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2014. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)
An ultra-Orthodox Jewish family light candles during the last day of Jewish holiday of Hanukkah in the city of Bnei Brak near Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2014. The Jewish festival of light is an eight-day commemoration of the Jewish uprising in the second century B.C. against the Greek-Syrian kingdom, which had tried to put statues of Greek gods in the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
A bottle floats on reflection of a bridge on the Sava river, in Belgrade, Serbia, Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2014. Unusually warm weather for this time of the year is predicted for upcoming days in Serbia. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
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