World in Review is a collection of five photo galleries curated by Associated Press photo editors from each region of the world: Asia, Europe and Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean and the United States.
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A man claiming to be responsible for kidnapping, torture and killing on behalf of a drug cartel speaks to the Associated Press in Guerrero state’s Costa Grande region, Mexico, Nov. 29, 2015. The 29-year-old raises cattle for a living and doesn’t consider himself a drug trafficker or a professional killer, although he is paid for disappearing people. While he acknowledges that what he does is illegal, he says he is defending his people against the violence of other cartels. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
An image of the Virgin Mary, covered by political posters of pro-government congressional candidates, covers a bus stop in Caracas, Venezuela, one day after congressional elections, Dec. 7, 2015. Venezuela’s opposition secured a two-thirds supermajority that enhances its ability to wrest power from President Nicolas Maduro. (AP Photo/Alejandro Cegarra)
A woman looks for her national identification number on a list hanging at a polling station during congressional elections in Caracas, Venezuela, Dec. 6, 2015. The system built by Venezuela’s late President Hugo Chavez faced its gravest electoral test Sunday as Venezuelans cast ballots in what seems to have become a tightening race for control of the national legislature. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro addresses supporters from a trailer truck outside Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Dec. 9, 2015. Maduro promised to protect the country’s socialist revolution from what he says are “bad guy” opposition leaders who will take control of Congress next month. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
Opposition supporters celebrate in Caracas, Venezuela after their coalition won control of the National Assembly by a landslide in congressional elections, Dec. 7, 2015. The win was a major setback to the ruling party, altering the balance of power after 17 years of socialist rule. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
A mural of Venezuelan’s late President Hugo Chavez decorates a wall outside a polling station where voters wait to enter during congressional elections in Caracas, Venezuela, Dec. 6, 2015. The system built by Chavez faces its gravest electoral test as voters cast ballots in what seems to have become a tightening race for control of the national legislature. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez flashes a victory sign after speaking to supporters one last time on the last day of her term, outside the presidential palace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dec. 9, 2015. For 12 years, Fernandez, and before her, late husband and predecessor, Nestor Kirchner, dominated the political landscape. The couple rewrote the country’s social contract, spending heavily on social programs for the poor while passing liberalizing laws, such as legalizing gay marriage in 2010. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)
Solange Ferreira bathes her son Jose Wesley in a bucket at their house in Poco Fundo, Pernambuco state, Brazil, Dec. 23, 2015. Ferreira says her son, who was diagnosed with microcephaly, enjoys being in the water, and places him in the bucket several times a day to calm him. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
Protestors clash with police as they try to block the highway leading to Ezeiza’s international airport in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dec. 22, 2015. The protesters are workers from a poultry company that suspended operations, and are demanding unpaid salaries and government aide. The government of newly elected President Mauricio Macri is working on measures to impede the blocking of roads during protests. Police shot water cannons and rubber bullets. (La Nacion/Anibal Greco via AP)
Brazil’s paralympic athlete Natalia Costa competes during a test event at Olympics Tennis Center, ahead of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Dec. 11, 2015. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
A street vendor sells shoes and shirts in Sao Paulo’s shopping district, Brazil, Dec. 1, 2015. Latin America’s largest economy has shrunk even more than expected, increasing fears about the well-being of a nation hammered by falling commodity prices and a massive corruption scandal. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
Daniela Santos Torres, 14, chooses a dress for her quinceanera party at Estudio Mayer, the company her family hired to take her portraits and organize her birthday party in Havana, Dec. 18, 2015. Daniela left Cuba when she was 3, returning in December for her quinceanera photos and party. She now lives in Glendale, Ariz. where her father runs a home remodeling business. She said returning to Cuba for her celebration was “a dream,” allowing her to include her extended family and friends on the island. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
Handmade weapons and tools found in inmates’ cells lay on display at the Central Prison in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Dec. 1, 205. A recently installed scanner has reduced the number of cell phones, drugs and razor blades that are smuggled into the prison by visiting relatives. But many of these items are often thrown over the prison walls and retrieved by waiting inmates. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
Democratic Unity opposition coalition congressman Miguel Pizarro, center, greets supporters during a rally to thank those that voted for him, at the Petare neighborhood in Caracas, Venezuela, Dec. 12, 2015. The opposition is holding rallies around the nation to celebrate its landslide victory in the Dec. 6 legislative elections. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
Firefighters work to douse the flames at the Portuguese Language Museum in Sao Paulo, Dec. 21, 2015. The fire department said they lost one firefighter to the blaze. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
People who lost loved ones in a 2012 train crash are overcome with emotion as they watch a live image of a hearing on a screen set up outside court on the last day of a trial related to the Once railway crash in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dec. 29, 2015. Two former transportation ministers, former officials and the train driver were convicted and sentenced to between three and nine years in prison for the accident that left 51 people dead and almost 800 injured. Of the total 28 accused, 5 were absolved. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
A man crawls as self-imposed penance during a pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Lazarus, in El Rincon, near Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba, Dec. 16, 2015. Lazarus also is identified as the Yoruba deity Babalu Aye – the protector of the sick who took upon himself all the illnesses of his people to save them. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
Masked fighters put on their costumes for the “Takanakuy” ritual fighting event on the outskirts of Lima, Peru on Christmas day, Dec. 25, 2015, with the winged fighter wearing leg guards used by horse riders, to protect him from kicks to the legs. “Takanakuy” in the Quechua language roughly means to “beat each other up,” and has its roots in pre-Hispanic and even pre-Incan Andean traditions. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
Aymara indigenous women descend the Huayna Potosi mountain with their husbands, who work as professional guides, on the outskirts of El Alto, Bolivia, Dec. 17, 2015. Eleven women, ranging in age from 20 to 50 years old, made the two-day climb up the mountain. All of the women work as porters and cooks at the base camp, but six of the youngest ones would like to eventually join the ranks of the men and guide tourists to the peak. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
Palmeiras players lift the team’s coach Marcelo Oliveira as they celebrate at the end of the Copa do Brasil final soccer match against Santos in Sao Paulo, Dec. 3, 2015. Palmeiras won in a penalty shootout after tying 2-2 on aggregate.(AP Photo/Andre Penner)
A man cycles past a painting by Colombia’s muralist Bulkar, depicting a man in traditional clothing from the coast, and playing the “millo” flute, in Bogota, Colombia, Dec. 11, 2015. Artists from across Latin America, as well as Italy, were invited to paint the public areas of the Santa Fe neighborhood, as part of the city’s International Festival of Revitalization through Urban Art. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
A fan of Colombia’s Independiente Santa Fe cheers for his team during a Copa Sudamericana final soccer match against Argentina’s Huracan in Bogota, Colombia, Dec. 9, 2015. (AP Photo/Daniel Munoz)
Children play in a recently inaugurated fountain with colored lights outside City Hall in Iguala, Mexico, Dec. 3, 2015. Fifteen months ago, when 43 rural college students disappeared at the hands of local police and cartel thugs, Iguala became the symbol of Mexico’s narco-brutality. Ten other disappearances in Iguala have been reported to authorities since the 43 students vanished, according to the government’s registry. But since few people report such incidents when they happen, the actual number is likely much higher. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
Argentina’s new President Mauricio Macri dances before supporters, flanked by his Vice President Gabriela Michetti, left, and wife Juliana Awada, at the government house in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on the day of his inauguration, Dec. 10, 2015. Macri promises to usher in an era of more civil discourse and roll back much of the previous administration’s spending that many economists say has brought Argentina to the brink of another financial crisis. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott looks out from a car with his security detail nearby, during his visit to the Special Development Zone of Mariel, within the Mariel free trade zone in the Bay of Mariel, Cuba, Dec. 1, 2015. Abbott is on a two-day visit to Cuba with a business delegation looking to reintroduce Texas agricultural products to a growing Cuban market. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)
Lawmakers who support President Dilma Rousseff hold up pictures of the leader when she was a political prisoner, which read in Portuguese: “Dilma stay”, during a lower house session to nominate representatives for a special commission that will determine whether impeachment proceedings against Rousseff will go to a full vote in the house in Brasilia, Brazil, Dec. 8, 2015. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
Supporters of Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez listen to her address the crowd on the last day of her presidency in Plaza de Mayo, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dec. 9, 2015. Tens of thousands of supporters jammed Argentina’s most famous square to say goodbye to Fernandez, who lauded her government’s achievements while blasting the incoming administration. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
A cyclist rides in front of a mural with portraits of Rio Negro massacre victims that is posted on a wall of the cemetery in Rabinal, Guatemala, Dec. 11, 2015. Justice for civil-war abuses has been hard to come by in Guatemala. Many military figures accused of ordering or carrying out mass killings still walk free decades later. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
A demonstrator is dragged under a towed electricity generator after falling during clashes between police and protesters during a march against the country’s electoral council in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Dec. 12, 2015. He was rescued after other demonstrators unloaded the generator and the police took him to the hospital where he was treated for his injuries. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
Masked protesters confront police during a student demonstration in Santiago, Chile, Dec. 22, 2015. Students marched against what they consider “improvisation” in the government’s proposals to free education. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)
America’s Javier Guemez, right, competes for the ball with Pumas’ Javier Cortes during a Mexican soccer league semi-final match in Mexico City, Dec. 6, 2015. Pumas advanced to the Torneo de Apertura final on an aggregate score. (AP Photo/Christian Palma)
Relatives of the 43 missing students from the Isidro Burgos rural teachers college march holding pictures of their missing loved ones during a protest in Mexico City, Dec. 26, 2015. The march took place one year and three months after several students and bystanders were killed and 43 students vanished in the city of Iguala, allegedly taken by police and then handed over to a criminal gang who burned their bodies in a garbage dump, according to a federal investigation. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
People walk outside a money exchange house in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dec. 17, 2015. Argentina’s currency sharply devalued against the U.S. dollar on Thursday as the new administration lifted deeply unpopular limits on the buying of foreign currencies. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)
Kenyan actress Lupita Nyong’o, who was born in Mexico, walks past waiting fans, at a fan event to promote “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” at Antara Fashion Mall in Mexico City, Dec. 8, 2015. The newest installment of Star Wars opens in some markets on Dec. 16 and will open in Mexico on Dec. 17. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
Necklace pendants in the shapes of weapons, crosses and hearts are for sale at a shop in Iguala, Mexico, a city that for decades was one of Mexico’s top destinations for jewelry shoppers, Dec. 3, 2015. According to the new Mayor Esteban Albarran Mendoza, at one time his city was only second to Guadalajara in gold sales. But in the year since 43 students disappeared at the hands of the police and drug gangs, thrusting the city on to the world’s map, jewelry sales have dropped 70 to 80 percent. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
St. Louis Cardinals player Brayan Pena, from Cuba, embraces a former colleague before giving a baseball clinic to children in Havana, Dec. 16, 2015. A group of Cuban-born baseball stars once disdained by the island’s government for defecting to the United States taught their craft to some of the island’s youngest players on Wednesday as part of a triumphant return to Cuba. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
A car and homes are submerged in floodwater in Concordia, Argentina, Dec. 28, 2015. At least 20,000 have been evacuated in Argentina. Neighboring Paraguay has been hardest hit, with 100,000 evacuating. Several thousand have also been evacuated in Uruguay and southern Brazil. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
A prisoner looks through the bars of her cell during a Christmas decorating contest at the Nelson Hungria prison in Rio de Janeiro, Dec. 10, 2015. Each cell of 50 women or more also put on a skit dramatizing Biblical stories, with many depictions of Jesus’ life, as well as David and Goliath and Daniel in the lions’ den, giving prison’s would-be thespians their chance to shine. Voices soared in rapture with the religious songs, and many, many tears were shed. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
The Momotombo volcano spews a large plume of gas and ash as seen from the rural community of Papalonal, in Leon, Nicaragua, Dec. 2, 2015. Quiet for many years, the volcano emitted some glowing rock on Wednesday, after gas and ash emissions began Tuesday. In 1610, the city of Leon was destroyed during an eruption of the Momotombo and was relocated west, where it is currently located. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
Sergio Otalvaro, of Colombia’s Independiente Santa Fe, rides on the shoulders of a teammate as he celebrates with the trophy in his hand, after after winning the Copa Sudamericana final soccer match against Argentina’s Huracan in Bogota, Colombia, Dec. 9, 2015. Santa Fe won the match and became champion in a penalty shoot-out. (AP Photo/Daniel Munoz)
A nun tests her drums in preparation for tomorrow’s beatification ceremony for three slain Franciscan missionaries in Chimbote, Peru, Dec. 4, 2015. Fathers Miguel Tomaszek and Zbigniew Strzalkowski, both from Poland, and Alessandro Dordi, from Italy, were killed by Shining Path rebels in 1991. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
Isabel Olaechea sits still as shamans perform a ritual at the “Mercado de Deseos” in Lima, Peru, Dec. 30, 2015. Olaechea is hoping the ceremony will help her earn enough money to buy a home in 2016. She paid about 20 US dollars for the rite at the Market of Wishes, which sets up for about a week at the end of the year. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
Tourists travel in a “Coco taxi” along the Malecon as waves break above the sea wall in Havana, Dec. 5, 2015. Coco taxis are one of many kinds of taxis in the capital fashioned out of motorcycles, popular with both tourists and locals. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
Workers decorate a Christmas tree with lights ahead of seasonal celebrations at the Colon square in Madrid, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
People line up along a street as they wait to buy lottery tickets in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, Dec. 19, 2015. Spaniards are taking advantage of unusually warm weather and a “day of reflection” break in political campaigning ahead of general elections to buy tickets for the world’s richest lottery. Spain’s annual Christmas lottery, known as El Gordo or the Fat One, is due to hand out 2.24 billion euros ($2.43 billion) in winnings throughout Spain on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
A nun leaves a polling station as Guardia Civil officers stand guard, after casting her vote for the national elections in Madrid, Sunday, Dec. 20, 2015. Spaniards are voting in an historic national election Sunday with the country’s traditional two-parties and widely anticipated strong showings for two new parties. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Voters line up to vote in a crowded corridor as others try to leave after casting their ballots at a polling station in Madrid, Sunday, Dec. 20, 2015. Spaniards are voting in an historic national election Sunday with the country’s traditional two-parties and widely anticipated strong showings for two new parties. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
A worker removes a campaign poster for the national elections depicting Spain’s Prime Minister and Popular Party candidate Mariano Rajoy, in Madrid, Spain, Monday, Dec. 21, 2015. A strong showing Sunday by a pair of upstart parties in Spain’s general election upended the country’s traditional two-party system, with the ruling Popular Party winning the most votes but falling far short of a parliamentary majority and at risk of being booted from power. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)
Sarajevo’s TV tower is seen surrounded with fog, in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Friday, Dec. 4, 2015. Traffic pollution and burning low quality coal for heating due to the high price of natural gas in the country causes clouds of air pollution during days with low air pressure in unusually warm weather. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)
In this Monday, Dec. 7, 2015 photo, a television transmission tower is seen in a huge cloud of fog in Pecs, 196 kms south of Budapest, Hungary. The photo was taken from the top of the 611-meter high Tubes Mountain belonging to the city. (Tamas Soki/MTI via AP)
Suspended FIFA President Sepp Blatter arrives for a news conference in Zurich, Monday, Dec. 21, 2015 after he has been banned for 8 years from all football related activities. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
President of Euorpean Central Bank Mario Draghi speaks during a press conference following a meeting of the governing council in Frankfurt, Germany, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
Germany’s Wolfgang Kimmig-Liebe, who has been volunteering as Santa Claus for years, passes under a metal detector before entering in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican to attend Pope Francis general audience, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
A woman holds up a French flag as she waits in St. Peter’s Square for the start of a mass celebrated by Pope Francis on the occasion the opening of the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica, at the Vatican, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015. Francis on Tuesday pushes open the huge bronze Holy Door to formally launch his yearlong “revolution of tenderness” amid unprecedented security aimed at thwarting the threat of a Paris-style attack at the Vatican. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Pope Francis pushes open the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica, formally launching the Holy Year of Mercy, at the Vatican, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015. Pope Francis pushed open the great bronze doors of St. Peter’s Basilica to launch his Holy Year of Mercy, declaring that mercy trumps moralizing in his Catholic Church. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
In this Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015 photo, Yazidi refugee Samir Qasu, 45, right, from Sinjar, Iraq, and his wife Bessi, 42, cry while embracing their children, Dunia, 13, and Dildar, 10, shortly after arriving on a vessel from the Turkish coast to the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos. The Qasus left the Turkish coast before dawn on Dec. 3 bound for the island of Lesbos, the first port of EU call for nearly 400,000 asylum seekers this year. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
Refugees and migrants approach the Greek island of Lesbos on a dinghy after crossing the Aegean sea from the Turkish coast, on Monday, Dec. 7, 2015. Greece is the main point of entry into the EU for people fleeing war and poverty at home, with the vast majority of the 700,000 people who have entered the country this year reaching Greek islands from the nearby Turkish coast. (AP Photo/Santi Palacios)
An Iraqi refugee from Mosul holds up his daughter after their arrival on a small vessel with about 150 other refugees and migrants, from the Turkish coast to the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos, on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015. Authorities in northwestern Turkey on Monday rounded up some 1,300 asylum seekers and migrants allegedly preparing to make their way into Greece. (AP Photo/Santi Palacios)
Greek police officers allowed a little girl in tears to cross into Macedonia at the northern Greek border station of Idomeni, Friday, Dec. 4, 2015. Macedonian authorities are allowing only people from the war-wracked countries of Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq to cross from Greece on their way to other European Union countries, leading to protests from those from other countries who have been blocking the crossing for all since Wednesday.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
A woman reacts as policemen stop migrants from crossing the Greek-Macedonian border, near the northern Greek village of Idomeni, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015. Macedonian authorities are allowing only people from the war-wracked countries of Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq to cross from Greece on their way to other European Union countries, leading to protests from those from other countries who have been blocking the crossing for all since Wednesday. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)
Refugees try to warm up themselves next to a makeshift fire outside a registering center in the village of Moria, on the Greek island of Lesbos, Saturday, Dec. 26, 2015. The International Organization for Migrants said earlier this week more than 1 million people have entered Europe. Almost all came by sea, while 3,692 drowned in the attempt. (AP Photo/Santi Palacios)
Migrants and refugees react as they arrive on a dinghy from the Turkish coast to the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos on Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015. Greek authorities said in an incident at the southeastern Greek islet of Farmakonissi a number of people have died and others are missing after a boat carrying migrants sank in the Aegean Sea. (AP Photo/Santi Palacios)
A migrant child rests in a vineyard after crossing the Greek Macedonian border near the southern Macedonian town of Gevgelija, Friday, Dec. 4, 2015. Greek riot police struggled to maintain order on Friday after clashes between asylum-seekers at the country’s border with Macedonia. Macedonia is allowing only people from Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria to cross the border, and groups of people from other nationalities have set up makeshift roadblocks, preventing anyone from crossing. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)
A migrant boy jumps in the air as he waits to travel to Greek islands by dinghies, near Cesme, Izmir, Turkey, late Thursday, Dec. 31, 2015. More than a million people hoping to escape war and poverty have made their way into Europe this year, according to migration monitors, but attention has been focused on two more common routes — across the Aegean Sea from Turkey to Greece or across the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy.(AP Photo/Emre Tazegul)
Leverkusen’s Javier Hernandez celebrates his third goal during the German Bundesliga soccer match between Bayer Leverkusen and Borussia Moenchengladbach in Leverkusen, Germany, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2015. Leverkusen defeated Moenchengladbach 5-0. Hernandez scored three goals. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
Arsenal’s Olivier Giroud, lying on the ground, celebrates with his teammates Mesut Ozil, center, and Aaron Ramsey after scoring during a Champions League Group F soccer match between Olympiakos and Arsenal at the Georgios Karaiskakis stadium in Piraeus port, near Athens, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Cologne’s Jonas Hector, left, challenges for the ball with Dortmund’s Matthias Ginter during the German Bundesliga soccer match between 1.FC Cologne and Borussia Dortmund in Cologne, Germany, Saturday, Dec. 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
A ski jumper soars through the air above artificial snow during a trial jump at the first stage of the 64. four hills ski jumping tournament in Oberstdorf, Germany, Monday, Dec. 28, 2015. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
Austria’s Marco Schwarz competes during an alpine ski, men’s World Cup slalom, in Madonna Di Campiglio, Italy, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2015. (AP Photo/Shin Tanaka)
Japan’s Kento Sakuyama soars through the air during a trial jump at the first stage of the 64. four hills ski jumping tournament in Oberstdorf, Germany, Monday, Dec. 28, 2015. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
Jockey David Noonan falls from Steady Eddie at the first fence during a hurdle race at Doncaster Racecourse in Doncaster England, Friday, Dec. 11, 2015. (Mike Egerton/PA via AP)
England’s fielder Chris Woakes positions himself to take a catch on the third day of their first cricket test match at Kingsmead in Durban, South Africa, Monday, Dec. 28, 2015. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
A kite-surfer performs under heavy clouds near Born am Darss on the Baltic Sea, in northeastern Germany, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2015. (Daniel Bockwoldt/dpa via AP)
The red ribbon, the international symbol for AIDS awareness, is highlighted on the skyscrapers in Arbat street during a campaign to mark World AIDS Day in Moscow, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015. While the rate of HIV infection is on a global decline as World AIDS Day is marked Tuesday, the number of new infections in Russia continues to rise. By 2016, the country’s Federal AIDS Center estimates the total number of those diagnosed with HIV will reach 1 million. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at his annual end of year news conference as a reporter holds up a heart-shaped poster to attract his attention, in Moscow, Thursday, Dec. 17, 2015. President Vladimir Putin said Thursday Russia is ready to improve ties with the United States and work with whomever is elected its next president. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
The Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz TMA-19M space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station, ISS, blasts off at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015. The Russian rocket carries British astronaut Tim Peake, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and U.S. astronaut Tim Kopra. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
A street worker cleans paving stones in Red Square with St. Basil’s Cathedral, left, Lenin Mausoleum, center, and the Spasskaya Tower, right, in Moscow, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2015. It’s usually the cold that’s bitter in Moscow in December, but this year it’s the humor that bites during an unusual warm spell and temperatures climbed as high as 10 degrees Celsius (50 degrees Fahrenheit). In the Russian capital in recent days, a joke began circulating on the Internet: This was nature’s compensation for Russians being unable to take vacations in Egypt and Turkey this year, two top destinations for Russian winter holidays. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
People watch a light show at the Dvortsovaya (Palace) square decorated for incoming New Year and Christmas celebrations in St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2015, with a statue of an angel fixed atop the Alexander Column in the foreground. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
Oleh Barna, a Ukrainian lawmaker from the Block of Petro Poroshenko, second left, tries to pull Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenuk out from the podium during his speech at a parliamentary session in the Parliament in Kiev, Ukraine, Friday, Dec. 11, 2015. (AP Photo/Volodymyr Tarasov)
Kosovo parliament security wear gas masks after opposition lawmakers released a tear gas canister disrupting a parliamentary session in the Kosovo capital Pristina on Monday, Dec. 14, 2015. Opposition lawmakers have released tear gas in Kosovo’s parliament in their latest attempt to pressure the government into renouncing deals with Serbia and Montenegro. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)
Far Right National Front party leader Marine Le Pen delivers her speech after the results of the second round of the regional elections in Henin-Beaumont, northern France, Sunday, Dec.13, 2015. Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Front collapsed in French regional elections Sunday after dominating the first round of voting, according to pollsters’ projections. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
The head of a slaughtered cow is placed on top of a Christmas tree as Ukrainian farmers protest proposed changes in a tax law outside the Ukrainian parliament in Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, Dec. 17, 2015. The Ukrainian parliament discussed the 2016 state budget on Thursday. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)
Kate Duchess of Cambridge meets trader Nigel Hagen, wearing high heel shoes as she attends ICAP’s 23rd annual Charity Day in London Wednesday Dec. 9, 2015. The Duchess and Prince William joined ICAP’ s brokers to raise revenues from trading on ICAP’s charity day that will be donated to a range of charities, including SkillForce, of which William is patron, and SportsAid and Place2Be, of which Kate is patron. (Jeremy Selwyn, Pool via AP)
Madonna performs on stage at the 2 arena in London, as part of her Rebel Heart Tour, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP)
Oscar Pistorius, center, leaves a courtroom of the High Court in Pretoria, South Africa, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015. Judge Aubrey Ledwaba granted Pistorius bail and extended his house arrest for the murder conviction of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp until April 18 2016. (AP Photo/Siphiwe Sibeko, Pool)
Members of the band Eagles of Death Metal, Jesse Hughes, right, and Julian Dorio pay their respects to 89 victims who died in a Nov. 13 major extremist attack, at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris, France, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015. Members of the California rock band Eagles of Death Metal are back at the ravaged Paris theater where they survived a massacre by Islamic extremist suicide bombers. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)
People wearing bear furs perform during a festival of New Year ritual dances attended by hundreds in Comanesti, northern Romania, Wednesday, Dec. 30 2015. In pre-Christian rural traditions, dancers wearing colored costumes or animal furs, toured from house to house in villages singing and dancing to ward off evil, in the present the tradition has moved to Romania’s cities too, where dancers travel to perform the ritual for money. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Men wearing traditional Romanian costumes, masks and animal furs prepare to perform in a show of winter traditions at the Village Museum in Bucharest, Romania, Sunday, Dec. 13, 2015. In pre-Christian rural traditions, dancers wearing colored costumes or animal furs toured from house to house in villages, singing and dancing to ward off evil. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
People walk on a bridge as Christmas lights illuminate the Darsena dei Navigli, the neighborhood named for the canals that run through this area of Milan, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
A ferris wheel is reflected in a water feature as part of the Christmas holiday illuminations in Nice, southeastern France, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015. Several Christmas decorations are now displayed around the city of Nice. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)
History enthusiasts dressed in regimental costumes take part in a re-enactment of Napoleon’s famous battle of Austerlitz, celebrating its 210th anniversary near Slavkov u Brna, Czech Republic, Saturday, Dec. 5, 2015. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
Two penguins swim in their pool while others stand outside the water in their enclosure at a zoo in Frankfurt, Germany, Monday, Dec. 7, 2015. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
A surfer stretches on the beach of Biarritz, southwestern France, facing the Atlantic ocean, Friday, Dec. 18, 2015. Temperatures in southwestern France rose an unusual 20 degrees Celsius (68 degrees Fahrenheit). (AP Photo/Bob Edme)
Carabinieri (Italian paramilitary police) car’s blue lights flash in front of St. Peter’s Basilica, in Rome, Friday, Dec. 4, 2015. Extra pilgrims and tourists coming for the Holy Year, which runs through Nov. 20, 2016, pose challenging logistics for both Vatican and Italian security forces. Italy’s top armed forces official, Gen. Claudio Graziano said as many as 6,300 troops will be deployed in Rome and other Italian cities. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
A Bosnian woman walks on the street during fog in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2015. Local authorities in Sarajevo have advised the population to reduce movement in the mornings and evenings due to health risk of air pollution. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)
People carry a sick person through the barricades set up by the militants of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, in Nusaybin, Turkey, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2015. Security forces have killed 183 Kurdish rebels in a week in southeast Turkey, news agencies reported. The government imposed curfews in the mainly Kurdish towns of Cizre, Silopi, Nusaybin and Sur district of Diyarbakir as the security forces battle militants linked to the PKK who have moved their fight for autonomy to some towns and city neighborhoods in southeastern Turkey.(AP Photo/Cagdas Erdogan)
The christmas tree of the Christmas Market is reflected in two windows in downtown Frankfurt, Germany, Friday, Dec. 4, 2015. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
In this picture made available Friday, Dec. 4, 2015, lightning is seen in the cloud of smoke during an eruption of Mt. Etna, near Catania, Italy, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015. Mt. Etna is Europe’s most active volcano at 3,350 meters (10,990 feet) and erupts quite frequently. (AP Photo/Salvatore Allegra)
Palestinian boys run by a painted house in the Shati Refugee Camp in Gaza City on Saturday Dec. 19, 2015 photo. Shati has always been a symbol of poverty, a grey concrete jungle with 87,000 people packed into one fifth of a square mile (half a square kilometer). But now, overlooking the sewage-contaminated Mediterranean beachfront, the camp’s houses are covered in vibrant colors.(AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
A Palestinian boy sits atop a wall with an elephant painting in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015. A group of two dozen artists has painted the walls, doorsteps and facades of all the houses along a one-mile-long (1.5 kilometer-long) edge of the camp, including in the area where Hamas chief Ismail Haniya lives. Arabic at left reads: “Osama Sabeeta.” (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
A rainbow appears after a heavy rain in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2015. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
An Egyptian forensic investigator checks inside the nightclub which was attacked in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Dec. 4, 2015. More than a dozen were killed and wounded, Egypt’s state-run news agency reported. MENA quoted an unnamed security official as saying three men on a motorcycle threw Molotov cocktails into the club in the Agouza district and then fled. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
Feras Ali Abou Ghaben, a 30-year-old Palestinian American Muslim stock broker, poses for a photograph at an apartment in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2015. “Donald Trump’s speech reminded me of Hitler. Trump has managed to gain votes through hate speech. I do not see anyone doing anything about it and that scares me. What terrified me even more was the applause that came after his speech,” said Abou Ghaben. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
The gold mask of King Tutankhamun is displayed in its glass case, in the Egyptian Museum near Tahrir Square, in Cairo Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2015 . Antiquities Minister Mamdouh el-Damaty says the famed golden burial mask has been fixed, over a year after the beard was accidentally knocked off and hastily glued back with epoxy. A German-Egyptian team began the restoration work in October. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
An Iraqi Christian woman celebrates during Christmas Eve mass in the Al-Bashara Church in a Christian refugee camp in Irbil, northern Iraq, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2015. Many of the worshippers are displaced from their homes after Islamic State militants swept through northern Iraq in 2014. (AP Photo/Seivan M.Salim)
A veterinary technician feeds a horse at the Hebrew University’s Koret School of Veterinary Medicine in Rishon Lezion, Israel Monday, Dec. 7, 2015. Veterinarians at the hospital operate on about two dozen horses a month and rely on elaborate tools and an army of volunteers to safely treat animals that can weigh more than 1,000 pounds (450 kilograms). (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
Smoke rises from Islamic State positions following a U.S.-led coalition airstrike as Iraqi Security forces advance their position in downtown Ramadi, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq Friday, Dec. 25, 2015. Iraqi forces entered the Huz at dawn, an area housing a government compound in the center of Ramadi, part of a major offensive aimed at dislodging the Islamic State terrorist militia from the western city, an Iraqi official said. (AP Photo/Rwa Faisal)
Smoke rises from Islamic State positions following a U.S.-led coalition airstrike as Iraqi Security forces advance their position in downtown Ramadi, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq Friday, Dec. 25, 2015. Iraqi forces entered the Huz at dawn, an area housing a government compound in the center of Ramadi, part of a major offensive aimed at dislodging the Islamic State terrorist militia from the western city, an Iraqi official said. (AP Photo/Osama Sami)
Iraqi security forces enter the government complex in central Ramadi, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Dec. 28, 2015. Iraqi military forces on Monday retook a strategic government complex in the city of Ramadi from Islamic State militants who have occupied the city since May. (AP Photo/Osama Sami)
Iraqi security forces raise an Iraqi flag near the provincial council building in central Ramadi, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2015. Iraqi military forces on Monday retook a strategic government complex in the city of Ramadi from Islamic State militants who have occupied the city since May. (AP Photo/Osama Sami)
Iraqi security forces search a building in the government complex in central Ramadi, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq Sunday, Dec. 27, 2015. Iraqi military forces on Monday retook a strategic government complex in the city of Ramadi from Islamic State militants who have occupied the city since May. (AP Photo/Osama Sami)
Iraqi security forces help trapped civilians to come out to safe places in Ramadi, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2015. Anbar Provincial Council head Sabah Karhout told The Associated Press on Thursday that sporadic clashes and airstrikes were taking place in areas that are still under IS control. He says a major offensive to clear the remainder of the provincial capital is on hold due to the bad weather, he says families are still trapped in the IS-held areas of the city, where they are being used as human shields. (AP Photo)
A woman pushes a stroller carrying a box in the old city of Homs, Syria on Monday, Dec. 7, 2015. Syrian authorities have released 35 opposition detainees in the central city, ahead of a deal that will lead to the departure of thousands of opposition fighters.The 35 were released Monday at the governor’s office in this city that was one of the first to rise against the government. (AP Photo)
Relatives of wounded Syrian opposition fighters wait for their release at the Lebanese border crossing point of Masnaa, Monday, Dec. 28, 2015. 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. The evacuation is part of a U.N.-backed truce deal reached in September for two key Syrian battleground areas that will see the transfer of thousands of Shiite and Sunni civilians and fighters from one area to another. Arabic on the papers read, “Father, we are waiting for you, I am Mena,” right, and “Aglak Al-Garhy from Al Zabadani.” (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Syrian and Lebanese wave and flash victory signs as convoys carrying wounded Syrian opposition fighters leave the Lebanese border crossing point of Masnaa, Monday, Dec. 28, 2015. 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. The evacuation is part of a U.N.-backed truce deal reached in September for two key Syrian battleground areas that will see the transfer of thousands of Shiite and Sunni civilians and fighters from one area to another. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Former militia men attend the inauguration of the Afghanistan Protection and Stability Council in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Dec. 18, 2015. It is the first opposition party to be established since the Taliban were toppled in 2001. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
A U.S. service member salutes her fallen comrades during a memorial ceremony for six Airmen killed in a suicide attack, at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan on Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2015. The deadliest attack in Afghanistan since 2013 killed six U.S. troops on Monday, including a family man from Long Island, New York; a South Texan; a New York City police detective; a Georgia high school and college athlete; an expectant father from Philadelphia; and a major from suburban Minneapolis with ties to the military’s LGBT community. They were killed when their patrol was attacked by a suicide bomber on a motorcycle near Bagram Air Base, the Defense Department said. (Tech. Sgt. Robert Cloys/U.S. Air Force via AP)
Yemeni volunteers provide food items for displaced families who fled Saada province, northwest of Sanaa, during a food distribution by Yemeni volunteers in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, Dec. 17, 2015. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)
A Palestinian protester is enveloped in smoke as he hurls stones at Israeli soldiers during clashes on the Israeli border Eastern Gaza City, Friday, Dec. 18, 2015. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
Close relatives and friends mourn over the coffins of seven family members who drowned as they attempted to cross the Aegean sea to reach Europe, at camp for the displaced in Irbil, northern Iraq, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015. They had fled Islamic State militants from their home on the plains of Nineveh last year and lived in the camp in Irbil since. The members of the family who died on Nov. 17 were identified as 31-year old Steven Marzina, a baker, his wife 27-year old Silvana, and their children Ingi, 4, and Mark, 7. (AP Photo/Alice Martins)
A Palestinian boy weeps during the funeral of Hani Wahdan, 22, at his family house in Gaza City, Saturday, Dec. 26, 2015. Palestinian Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Kidra says, Wahdan was killed Friday during clashes with Israeli soldiers on the Israeli border with east of Gaza City. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani, who is also a member of the Experts Assembly, waves to media with an ink-stained finger, after registering his candidacy for the Feb. 26 elections of the assembly at interior ministry in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Dec. 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
Shiite tribesmen, known as Houthis, attend a tribal gathering showing support for the Houthi movement in Sanaa, Yemen, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015 . A tenuous ceasefire is holding in Yemen despite some violations, as U.N.-brokered peace talks between the country’s U.S. and Saudi-backed internationally recognized government and Shiite rebels start in Switzerland. But with both camps’ positions unchanged and little sign either is ready for compromise, observers are not expecting much. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, right, greets Syrian children at a Lebanese public school where only Syrian students attend classes in the afternoon, in Bchamoun village, mount Lebanon, Tuesday Dec. 22, 2015. Renzi is in Lebanon to meet with Lebanese officials and to visit the Italian UN peacekeepers who work in south Lebanon and to visit Syrian refugee schools. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Pakistani laborers are silhouetted against the last sunset of 2015 on their way home on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2015. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)
A horse stands in a stall after leg surgery at the Hebrew University’s Koret School of Veterinary Medicine in Rishon Lezion, Israel Sunday, Dec. 6, 2015. Veterinarians at the hospital operate on about two dozen horses a month and rely on elaborate tools and an army of volunteers to safely treat animals that can weigh more than 1,000 pounds (450 kilograms). (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
Christian actors play the parts of Joseph and Mary during a re-enactment of a Nativity scene of the birth of Jesus Christ as part of Christmas festivities at the Nazareth Village in the northern Israeli city of Nazareth, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2015. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
A Christian pilgrim prays inside the Grotto of the Church of Nativity, traditionally believed by Christians to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on Christmas Eve, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2015. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
Muslim members of the Al-Hamdeya Al-Shazeleya Sufi order, chant prayers as they celebrate the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad known as Moulid Al-Nabi, in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2015. (AP Photo/Belal Darder)
Lebanese boys look at a Muslim Sufi who pierced his cheek with metal during a religious ritual to mark Prophet Muhammad’s birthday, in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2015. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
A woman walks beneath decorations put up for the celebration of moulid al-nabi, the birth of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad in Sanaa, Yemen, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2015. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)
In this Sunday, Dec. 20, 2015 photo, Pakistani Christians wear Santa Claus jackets, during a rally in Lahore, Pakistan. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
Israeli Arab Christians perform at the annual Christmas parade in the northern Israeli city of Nazareth, Israel, on Christmas Eve, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2015. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
A Lebanese woman wearing a Santa Claus costume sings during a Christmas event, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Dec. 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
A Lebanese Shiite woman waits with her daughter to takes a picture with Santa Claus in front a Christmas tree in Downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2015. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
An Israeli Arab Christian boy dressed up as Santa Claus waits for the start of the annual Christmas parade in in the northern Israeli city of Nazareth, Israel, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2015. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
A Pakistani Christian woman yawns during the Christmas mass at a local church, Friday, Dec. 25, 2015 in Islamabad, Pakistan. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)
A Lebanese couple take selfie in front of men and women wearing Santa Claus costumes during a parade for Christmas, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Dec. 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Iranian couples take selfies with Christmas items of a shop on Christmas Eve in central Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2015. Iran’s population of 80 million includes about 120,000 Christians, mostly Armenian ethnicity. Iranian Christians have three representatives in the parliament and freely practice their religion as allowed under the constitution. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
An Iranian woman celebrates her birthday with her friend at a cafe in downtown Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
Tourists from Korea, one covering her head with a plastic bag against the rain, walk in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2015. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)
A Palestinian woman shops on the last day of 2015 in Gaza city Thursday, Dec. 31, 2015. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
An Indian dancer taking pictures of his partner is silhouetted against the sky and reflected in the water during the last sunset of the year on the Arabian Sea coast in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2015. The two dancers who had arrived from the Indian capital for a performance in the city were spending their evening at the beach. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
Police officers stand on duty outside the Dongtang Catholic church in Beijing, China, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2015. Beijing police announced Thursday that they had issued a yellow security alert to ensure safety during the Christmas period. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
Members of the Indian Navy band perform a fire act during rehearsals for Naval Day celebrations in Mumbai, India, Wednesday Dec. 2, 2015. India celebrates Navy Day on Dec. 4. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
In this Dec. 1, 2015, photo, a video display on the side of a building shows a map of China amid heavy pollution and fog in Beijing. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
In this Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2015, file photo, people exercise at a park on a foggy morning in New Delhi, India. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)
Leader of National League for Democracy party (NLD) Aung San Suu Kyi, front center, picks garbage during a clean-up drive initiated by Suu Kyi in Kawhmu, Myanmar Sunday, Dec. 13, 2015. Suu Kyi lead the garbage collection on early foggy Sunday in Kawhmu township of Yangon region, where she won her seat for the Lower House in the country’s general election. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
Indian brides leave after a group photo before a mass wedding hosted by a diamond trader in Surat, India, Sunday, Dec. 6, 2015. 151 young couples tied the knot at the mass wedding hosted by Indian diamond trader Mahesh Savani, who has been funding the weddings of fatherless women in the city of Surat for several years. Weddings in India are expensive affairs with the bride’s family traditionally expected to pay the groom a large dowry of cash and gifts. Hundreds of people, mostly family members and neighbors of the couple, are hosted at lavish meals over a number of days adding to the costs. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)
Contestants wait backstage to participate in the Miss Wheelchair India 2015 pageant, in Bangalore, India, Saturday, Dec. 5, 2015. The annual event was organized by a non-government organization working for the disabled. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
India’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) rights activists dance as they participate in the Rainbow Pride Walk in Kolkata, India, Sunday, Dec. 13, 2015. Over the past decade, homosexuals have gained a degree of acceptance in parts of deeply conservative India, especially in big cities. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)
Supporters of All Parties Hurriyat Conference(APHC) shout pro-freedom slogans as Indian policemen detain them during a protest in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2015. The protest was held against an alleged killing of a woman and her four year old son by a member of the Village Defense Committee (VDC), a body of civilian volunteers armed by the Indian government to fight insurgents. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Indian laborers construct a temporary pontoon bridge over the River Ganges ahead of the upcoming ‘Magh Mela’ festival in Allahabad, India, Friday, Dec. 18, 2015. Hundreds of thousands of Hindus are expected to take holy dips at the confluence of Ganges,Yamuna and mythical Saraswati rivers during the astronomically auspicious period of over 45 days celebrated as Magh Mela, that begins later this month. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
Raindrops trickle down a window panel in front of Malaysia’s iconic building, Kuala Lumpur Tower in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
Rescuers use excavators dig the sea of soil to search for potential survivors following a landslide burying buildings at an industrial park in Shenzhen, in south China’s Guangdong province, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2015. A man-made mountain of excavated soil and construction waste crashed into the industrial park on Sunday, Dec. 20. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
Rescuers walk past excavators near a damaged building after conducting a search for potential survivors following a landslide at an industrial park in Shenzhen, in south China’s Guangdong province, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2015. Authorities blamed an enormous, man-made mountain of soil and waste for the collapse of nearly three dozen buildings that left 81 people missing in southern China’s most prominent manufacturing city. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
Indian women use bare hands to pick reusable pieces from heaps of used coal discarded by a carbon factory in Gauhati, India, Monday, Dec. 14, 2015. The collected pieces will be reused for cooking food. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
People exercise as the sun rises in Kandawgyi park in Yangon, Myanmar, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2015. The 150-acre Kandawgyi lake surrounded by a 110-acre park is a major recreation area for Yangon residence during the dry and relatively cool months of December to February. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
A man feeds wild sparrows from his hand at Shinobazu Pond in Ueno Park in Tokyo, Saturday, Dec. 5, 2015. This manmade pond is filled with lotus plants and many tourists visit to see the lotus flowers in summer. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
In this Dec. 6, 2015 photo, migratory birds fly above wetlands in Hokersar, about 16 kilometers (10 miles) north of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir. The cackle and cry of Kashmir’s annual bird migration has long been a welcome ruckus for those living in the Indian-controlled Himalayan territory. It signals the summer’s end, the coming snows and the global importance of Kashmir’s environment for species arriving from as far as northern Europe and Japan. But these days, wildlife experts say they have never seen so few birds – and so few species – feeding and breeding around the wetlands nestled between the region’s mountain peaks and plateaus. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
In this Thursday, Dec. 31, 2015, photo, Kashmiri villagers attend the funeral of Manzoor Ahmad during his funeral in Pulwama, south of Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir. Two suspected insurgents of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) group were killed in a gunfight with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Thursday, police said. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
Two boys are silhouetted against a glass subway station entrance decorated with decals of athletes in action on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015, in Singapore. Singapore’s rail system is one of the efficient ways for commuters to get around the city-state and it moves more than 2 million passengers daily. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
South Korean protesters attend an anti-government rally in downtown Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, Dec. 5, 2015. Wearing white half-masks and carrying flowers and banners, thousands of South Koreans marched in Seoul on Saturday against conservative President Park Geun-hye, who had compared masked protesters to terrorists after clashes with police broke out at a rally last month. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
An Indian man, right, takes a selfie with a Batman fan at Delhi Comic Con in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Dec. 5, 2015. Die-hard fans came dressed as their favorite comic characters. Others crowded the more than 200 stalls selling comic books, graphic novels and merchandise on cartoon characters. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
In this Dec. 14, 2015, photo, 32-year-old Tsai Jung-chou, also known as “Makoto Tsai”, poses with his handcrafted replicas of the Star Wars lightsaber at his home workshop in New Taipei City, Taiwan. A former optical engineer, Tsai now designs and fabricates his own versions of the iconic sci-fi weapon which he sells for up to $400 per model. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)
In this Dec. 14, 2015, photo, Star Wars fans dressed in character order food at a fast food restaurant in the neighborhood of 32-year-old Tsai Jung-chou, also known as “Makoto Tsai”, who makes replica lightsabers at his home workshop in New Taipei City, Taiwan. A former optical engineer, Tsai now designs and fabricates his own versions of the iconic sci-fi weapon which he sells for up to $400 per model. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)
South Korean actor Lee Kwang-soo, left, and actress Park Bo-young shake hands with their fans on the red carpet of the 2015 Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMA) in Hong Kong, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Bollywood actor Deepika Padukone performs during a promotional event to promote her upcoming movie ‘Bajirao Mastani’ in Ahmadabad, India, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015. The film is scheduled for release on Dec. 18. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)
Former South Korean sex slave Lee Oak-sun, second from right, who was forced to serve for the Japanese Army during World War II, sits after a meeting with a South Korean Foreign Ministry official at the House of Sharing, the home for the living sex slaves, in Gwangju, South Korea, Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2015. A day after trumpeting an “irreversible” settlement of a decades-long standoff over Korean women forced into sexual slavery by Japan’s WWII military, there’s relief among South Korean and Japanese diplomats, fury among activists and many of the elderly victims and general public indifference in both countries. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
Indian youth shout slogans as they are detained by police during a protest against the release of a juvenile convicted in the fatal 2012 gang rape that shook the country in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Dec. 20, 2015. The convict, who was short of his 18th birthday at the time of the crime, was to finish his three-year term in a reform home on Sunday. Several activists and politicians have demanded that he not be released until it can be proven that he has been reformed. (AP Photo /Tsering Topgyal)
In this Monday, Dec. 21, 2015, photo, Nepalese Buddhist young monks offer prayers in Boudhanath Stupa during Nyigma Monlam in Kathmandu, Nepal. Nyigma Monlam is an annual event where Buddhist monks pray for the world peace. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
Indian Christians offer prayers at the Saint Mary’s Garrison Church for Christmas in Jammu, India, Friday, Dec. 25, 2015. Though Hindus and Muslims comprise the majority of the population in India, Christmas is a national holiday celebrated with much fanfare. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)
People look at the devastation caused by fire that broke out at slums in Kadivali area of Mumbai, India, Monday, Dec. 7, 2015. Hundreds of homes were reportedly destroyed as fire tenders labored to reach the source in the heavily congested area. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)
Food delivery drivers dressed in Santa Claus suits line up before the start of their work day in Beijing, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2015. Although not an official holiday in China, Christmas is marked as a shopping and commercial event in China’s capital. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
A woman walks during rainfall caused by Typhoon Melor in Quezon city, north of Manila, Philippines on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015. Typhoon Melor weakened Tuesday as it crossed over the central Philippines, leaving one man dead and wide areas without power. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
In this Friday, Dec. 25, 2015, photo, a couple walks through the special yearend illumination “Granroof Winter Installation” decorating the Granroof, the upper deck promenade of Yaesu gate at Tokyo Station, in Tokyo. The Granroof is illuminated every night until Jan. 11. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
Dancers perform during singer PSY’s concert “All Night Stand” in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2015. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
South Korean singer PSY, top center, performs during his concert “All Night Stand” in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2015. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
South Africa’s Kyle Abbott balls on the third day of the fourth test cricket match between India and South Africa in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Dec. 5, 2015. (AP Photo /Tsering Topgyal)
Sanfrecce Hiroshima’s Yoshifumi Kashiwa, center, heads the ball away from Auckland City FC’s Alfred Rogers, right, of England during their match at the FIFA Club World Cup soccer tournament in Yokohama, near Tokyo, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
Guangzhou Evergrande FC’s Huang Bowen, center, and Li Xuepeng, right, react with teammates as a penalty kick is given to FC Barcelona during their match at the FIFA Club World Cup soccer tournament in Yokohama, near Tokyo, Thursday, Dec. 17, 2015. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)
In this Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015 photo, Sanfrecce Hiroshima’s Yusuke Minagawa fights for the ball against Auckland City FC during their match at the FIFA Club World Cup soccer tournament in Yokohama, near Tokyo. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)
Japanese champion Ryoichi Taguchi, left, gets a punch from Colombian challenger Luis De la Rosa in the first round of their WBA world light flyweight boxing title match in Tokyo, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2015. Taguchi defended his title with a technical knockout in the ninth round. (AP Photo/Toru Takahashi)
Belinda Bencic of Singapore Slammers returns a shot to Ajla Tomljanovic of Philippines Mavericks in the women’s singles event at the International Premier Tennis League in New Delhi, India, Friday, Dec. 11, 2015. (AP Photo/Tsering Topgyal)
In this Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2015 photo, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe addresses senior officers of Japan’s Self Defense Forces at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo. Japan’s Cabinet approved a record-high military spending plan Thursday, Dec. 24, endorsing plans to purchase pricey U.S. surveillance drones and F-35 fighter jets as Tokyo steps up cooperation with Washington amid China’s increasingly assertive activity in regional seas. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)
A Bangladeshi roadside vendor wears sunglasses to attract customers to his shop in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday, Dec. 28, 2015. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad)
Japan’s Emperor Akihito, left, accompanied by his wife Empress Michiko, right, waves to well-wishers as they appear on the balcony of the Imperial Palace to mark the emperor’s 82nd birthday in Tokyo, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2015. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
Wang Yong-yo, left foreground, sits inside a wooden coffin during the “death experience” program at Hyowon Healing Center in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2015. In a dark, dimly-lit room, people dressed in white burial shrouds sit down next to dozens of coffins. They write their wills, climb into the caskets, lie down and a symbolic “angel of death” _ a man wearing a traditional Korean hat and black robes — shuts the lid of each casket. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
Residents use buckets to fill up the tank of a fire truck during a fire at a residential and commercial area in downtown Quiapo in Manila, Philippines, Friday, Dec. 4, 2015. Fire officials said a number of people were injured in the fire that gutted several homes and business establishments and left close to a thousand families living in the area homeless. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
A North Korean woman reacts to the splash of a water feature in the indoor section of the Munsu water park on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015, in Pyongyang, North Korea. The water park is opened to both tourists as well as locals living in the North Korean capital. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
Marlies Noordeloos of the Netherlands, left, Lisa Van De Velde of Belgium, second left, Charlotte Trotter of Britain, second right, and Viktoria Sardarian of Lithuania wear Santa hats while in the surf at Bondi Beach celebrating Christmas Day in Sydney, Australia, Friday, Dec. 25, 2015. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
A boy talks on his cellphone as he walks on the banks of Bellundur Lake, which is filled with froth from industrial pollution in Bangalore, India, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
In this Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015 photo, hatter Peter Hill personalizes a hat with steam and a brush in the Strand Hatters store in Sydney, Australian. Robert Carroll, manager of Akubraís only retail store, has been in the industry for more than 29 years and has seen all the changes in fashion and the popularity of hats grow. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)
A worker arranges about ten thousand discarded beverage cans to form a Christmas tree in front of a church in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, Dec. 18, 2015. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)
Cambodian farmers catch a python in a rice paddy as it was found while villagers were cutting rice on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, Dec. 11, 2015. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
Tsunami, an eleven year old female Sumatran Orangutan, hangs on a rope in her enclosure during her birthday celebration at the National Zoo Ape Center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2015. (AP Photo/Joshua Paul)
Daredevils of Border Security Force display their skill on motorcycles during golden jubilee celebrations of their raising day in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015. The BSF is a paramilitary force that guards India’s land border during peace time and prevents transnational crime. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
Indonesian police are deployed to secure New Year celebrations in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2015. Indonesian government has deployed tens of thousands of security personnel to safeguard the year-end holidays. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)
In this photograph taken Thursday, Dec.10, 2015, pedestrians walk through a busy road in New Delhi, India. When New Delhi’s winter air grew so bad that a high court warned that it seems like we are living in a gas chamber, the city’s top official declared that cars would be restricted starting Jan. 1, with odd and even license plates taking turns on the roads. But police officials quickly announced they hadn’t been consulted, and said they’d have trouble enforcing the rule. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
Skiers and snowboarders dressed as Santa take a run en masse at the Sunday River ski resort, Sunday, Dec. 6, 2015, in Newry, Maine. Skiers with full Santa outfits got free lift tickets for donating $15 to the Sunday River Community Fund. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
A surfer walks on Casino Pier on Thursday, Dec. 24, 2015, in Seaside Heights, N.J. A weather pattern partly linked with El Nino has turned winter upside-down across the U.S. during a week of heavy holiday travel, bringing spring-like warmth to the Northeast, a risk of tornadoes in the South and heavy snow across the West. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Star Wars fans gather underneath the Space Needle on Saturday, Dec. 19, 2015, to wage a lightsaber battle in Seattle. The battle coincided with the opening weekend of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.” (Sy Bean/The Seattle Times via AP)
In this aerial photo, houses are surrounded by floodwater, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2015, in Arnold, Mo. Surging Midwestern rivers forced hundreds of evacuations, threatened dozens of levees and brought transportation by car, boat or train to a virtual standstill, Thursday in the St. Louis area. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
Paul Dusablon, left, and Richard Kotva row from the Circle K at Springdale Park after helping the owner move electronics off the floor inside the convenience store, in Fenton, Mo., Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2015. A rare winter flood threatened nearly two dozen federal levees in Missouri and Illinois as rivers rose, prompting evacuations in several places. (Robert Cohen/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)
Traffic backs up along I-30, near a site of Saturday’s tornado in Garland, Texas, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2015. At least 11 people died and dozens were injured in apparently strong tornadoes that swept through the Dallas area and caused substantial damage this weekend. (G.J. McCarthy/The Dallas Morning News via AP)
Emergency officials transport James Simmons by boat because water over Byler Road prevented them from reaching him in Moulton, Ala., Friday, Dec. 25, 2015. They carried him by boat before loading him into an ambulance. Unseasonably warm weather helped spawn severe storms Friday after violent storms in the Southeast left dozens of families homeless by Christmas Eve. (Deangelo McDaniel/The Decatur Daily via AP)
In this photo taken on Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2015, condemned inmate David Carpenter, also known as the trailside killer, watches television in his cell on death row at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif. With California’s lethal injection protocol in limbo, the nearly 750 inmates at San Quentin State Prison, the nation’s most populous death row, are more likely to die from natural causes or suicide than execution. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
Jennie Hiam, a caroler from Aldersgate United Methodist Church, places her hand on a cell door to get closer to an inmate at the Vanderburgh County Jail on Friday, Dec. 25, 2015, in Evansville, Ind. The group gathers each year at the facility to sing for those who are incarcerated, according to the Evansville Courier & Press. (Denny Simmons/Evansville Courier & Press via AP)
Chicago Police officers push a protester away from a bicycle barricade on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2015, in Chicago. The Christmas Eve Day protest calling for the resignation of Mayor Rahm Emanuel is the latest in a series of demonstrations in the city since the release last month of police video showing a white officer shoot a black teenager 16 times. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
A couple embraces following a shooting that killed multiple people at a social services facility, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015, in San Bernardino, Calif. (David Bauman/The Press-Enterprise via AP)
Roses adorn a makeshift memorial near the Inland Regional Center, Friday, Dec. 11, 2015, in San Bernardino, Calif. Authorities said Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malikkilled shot and killed several people at a holiday gathering at the center on Dec. 2. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Dressed as Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, Dante Ciccarone, right, and Georgie Ciccarone attend a rally for Trump, Monday, Dec. 14, 2015, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump autographs a supporter’s chest following his speech at a campaign rally at the Prince William County Fair Ground, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015, in Manassas, Va. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks Saturday, Dec. 5, 2015, during the Rising Tide Summit at the US Cellular Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (AP Photo/Scott Morgan)
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally Saturday, Dec. 5, 2015, in Davenport, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Martin Shkreli, the former hedge fund manager under fire for buying a pharmaceutical company and ratcheting up the price of a life-saving drug, is escorted by law enforcement agents in New York Thursday, Dec. 17, 2015, after being taken into custody following a securities probe. A seven-count indictment unsealed in Brooklyn federal court Thursday charged Shkreli with conspiracy to commit securities fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and securities fraud. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
Bill Cosby arrives at court to face a felony charge of aggravated indecent assault, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2015, in Elkins Park, Pa. Cosby was charged Wednesday with drugging and sexually assaulting a woman at his home in January 2004. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Daniel Holtzclaw cries as the verdicts are read in his trial in Oklahoma City, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015. Holtzclaw, a former Oklahoma City police officer, was facing dozens of charges alleging he sexually assaulted several women while on duty. Holtzclaw was found guilty on a number of counts. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, Pool)
Participants in a naturalization ceremony raise their hands to take the “Oath of Allegiance” at an event attended by President Barack Obama at the National Archives in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015. Obama spoke at the National Archives Museum, where 31 immigrants from Iraq, Ethiopia, Uganda and 23 other nations are being sworn in as U.S. citizens. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
A Marine helps hold up a giant flag before Wisconsin and Southern California play in the Holiday Bowl NCAA college football game, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2015, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Cleveland Cavaliers’ LeBron James falls into Ellie Day, wife of PGA Tour golf player Jason Day, at left, during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Oklahoma City Thunder, Thursday, Dec. 17, 2015, in Cleveland. (John Kuntz/The Plain Dealer via AP)
Arizona State’s Willie Atwood (2) is struck in the face by the foot of Creighton’s Geoffrey Groselle (41), who was coming down from a dunk, during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in Omaha, Neb., Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015. Arizona State won 79-77. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
Chicago Bulls center Joakim Noah (13) dunks between Detroit Pistons guard Reggie Jackson (1) and Anthony Tolliver (43) during the first half of an NBA basketball game Friday, Dec. 18, 2015, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Golden State Warriors’ Draymond Green (23) celebrates after scoring against the Cleveland Cavaliers during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Friday, Dec. 25, 2015, in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
Natalie Coughlin begins to break the surface of the water as she comes out of her glide as she begins the women’s 100 meter backstroke during a preliminary race in the U.S. Winter Nationals swimming event Friday, Dec. 4, 2015, in Federal Way, Wash. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
France’s Blaise Giezendanner reacts as he finishes his run during the Men’s World Cup downhill skiing event Friday, Dec. 4, 2015, in Beaver Creek, Colo. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
Ottawa Senators right wing Chris Neil (25) and Boston Bruins defenseman Adam McQuaid (54) gouge each other’s eyes as they fight during the third period of an NHL hockey game in Boston, Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2015. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Pittsburgh Penguins’ Evgeni Malkin (71) backhands the puck past Los Angeles Kings goalie Jonathan Quick (32) for a goal in the third period of an NHL hockey game in Pittsburgh Friday, Dec. 11, 2015. The Kings won 3-2 in a shootout. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Conor McGregor, left, fights Jose Aldo during a featherweight championship mixed martial arts bout at UFC 194, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2015, in Las Vegas. McGregor stopped Aldo with one spectacular punch just 13 seconds into the first round Saturday night, backing up his bravado and claiming the undisputed featherweight title at UFC 194 on Saturday night. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Boise State wide receiver Thomas Sperbeck, top, and Northern Illinois cornerback Shawun Lurry reach for a pass during the first half of the Poinsettia Bowl NCAA college football game, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2015, in San Diego. The pass was incomplete. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)
St. Louis Rams cornerback Janoris Jenkins (21) breaks up a pass intended for Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Michael Floyd during the second quarter of an NFL football game on Sunday, Dec. 6, 2015, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Tom Gannam)
Minnesota Vikings Anthony Harris (41) breaks up a pass intended for Arizona Cardinals wide receiver John Brown (12) during the second half of an NFL football game, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015, in Glendale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Michigan State’s Aaron Burbridge (16) is tackled by Iowa’s Cole Fisher (36) during the first half of the Big Ten championship NCAA college football game, Saturday, Dec. 5, 2015, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
Charleston Southern receiver Kenny Dinkins (80) catches a pass as he flips over Jacksonville State safety Brandon Bender (23) during the second half of an NCAA college football game, Friday, Dec. 11, 2015, in Jacksonville, Ala. Jacksonville State won 58-38. (AP Photo/ Butch Dill)
Seattle Seahawks free safety Earl Thomas (29) has his helmet turned a face mask by Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Stefon Diggs (14) while returning a interception in the first half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Dec. 6, 2015 in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)
Buffalo Bills wide receiver Sammy Watkins (14) makes a touchdown catch on a pass from Tyrod Taylor, not pictured, as Houston Texans strong safety Kevin Johnson (30) defends during the first half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Dec. 6, 2015, in Orchard Park, N.Y. (AP Photo/Bill Wippert)
Southern California wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster (9) drops a pass as Wisconsin cornerback Darius Hillary (5) defends during the first half of the Holiday Bowl NCAA college football game Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2015, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Dallas Cowboys running back Robert Turbin (23) leaps over teammate tight end Jason Witten (82) as Buffalo Bills defensive tackle Stefan Charles (96) chases him during the first half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2015, in Orchard Park, N.Y. (AP Photo/Bill Wippert)
Southern Mississippi wide receiver DJ Thompson (5) makes a catch against Washington defensive back Budda Baker (32) during the first half of the Heart of Dallas Bowl NCAA college football game, Saturday, Dec. 26, 2015, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Ron Jenkins)
Tampa Bay Buccaneers running back Doug Martin, center, is pulled down by St. Louis Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald, right, and outside linebacker Mark Barron during the second quarter of an NFL football game Thursday, Dec. 17, 2015, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Billy Hurst)
Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton (1) celebrates his touchdown against the Atlanta Falcons during the first half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2015, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
Toledo coach Jason Candle celebrates with his players after they defeated Temple 32-17 in the Boca Raton Bowl NCAA college football game, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2015, in Boca Raton, Fla. (AP Photo/Joe Skipper)
Clemson safety Jayron Kearse (1) kisses his daughter Ja’riah Kearse after his team won the Orange Bowl NCAA college football semifinal playoff game against Oklahoma, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2015, in Miami Gardens, Fla. Clemson defeated Oklahoma 37-17. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
The nearly full-moon is seen among Christmas lights at a holiday display Thursday, Dec. 24, 2015, in Lenexa, Kan. When the moon turns full, at 5:11am cst., it will be the first full moon to fall on Christmas day since 1977. Named the Long Night Moon because it’s the first full moon to follow the winter solstice, it’s also known as the Cold Moon. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
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