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Swimmers at the Whitley Bay New Year's Day Dip at the Panama Swimming Club's annual fundraising event at Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear. (credit:Owen Humphreys/PA Wire)
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Robin Thicke performs during a New Year's Eve celebration at Foxtail nightclub at SLS Las Vegas on January 1, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (credit:Isaac Brekken via Getty Images)
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A man prays after laying flowers at the site of a deadly stampede in Shanghai, China, Thursday, Jan. 1, 2015. People unable to contact friends and relatives streamed into hospitals Thursday, anxious for information after a stampede during New Year's celebrations in Shanghai's historic waterfront area killed dozens of people in the worst disaster to hit one of China's showcase cities in recent years. (credit:Ng Han Guan/AP)
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Swimmers wade in the cold waters of Orankesee lake during its New Year's swimming event on January 1, 2015 in Berlin, Germany. A local swimmers' group called the 'Berlin Seals' invites ice swimmers from across Germany to the annual event, which, like the previous year, featured minimal actual ice. Members claim ice swimming is good for the body's blood circulation. (credit:Adam Berry via Getty Images)
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Enthusiasts from the long-established swimming club, Les Ours Blancs (The Polar Bears), are seen after they finish an annual New Year's celebration swim in Biarritz, southwestern France, Thursday, Jan. 1, 2015. (credit:Bob Edme/AP)
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Swimmers are lead down the slipway towards the Solent before the start of the Gosport and Fareham Inshore Rescue Service Annual New Year's Day Swim at Gosport in Hampshire. (credit:Andrew Matthews/PA Wire)
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A swimmer dressed as a shark makes her way out of the Solent after taking part in the Gosport and Fareham Inshore Rescue Service Annual New Year's Day Swim at Gosport in Hampshire. (credit:Andrew Matthews/PA Wire)
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Swimmers prepare to enter the water at Clevedon Marina, where dozens of people are taking part in a New Year's Day swim at the Victorian seaside town in North Somerset. (credit:Ben Birchall/PA Wire)
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Swimmers dive in the water at Clevedon Marina, where dozens of people are taking part in a New Year's Day swim at the Victorian seaside town in North Somerset. (credit:Ben Birchall/PA Wire)
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Workers begins to clear away mess left by members of the public on the Embankment in central London, following the New Year celebration fireworks display. (credit:Yui Mok/PA Wire)
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Workers begins to clear away mess left by members of the public on the Embankment in central London, following the New Year celebration fireworks display. (credit:Yui Mok/PA Wire)
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Members of an Indonesian search and rescue team prepare their gear before their search and rescue operation for passengers of AirAsia flight QZ 8501 at Iskandar Airbase on January 01, 2015 in Pangkalan Bun, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. A massive recovery operation has begun following confirmation from Indonesian officials that remains and debris found in waters off Borneo are from the missing AirAsia plane. Flight QZ8501 from Surabaya to Singapore, with 162 people on board, lost contact with air traffic control at 07:24 a.m. local time on December 28. (credit:Ulet Ifansasti via Getty Images)
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Indonesian military personnel carry the coffins of victims recovered from the ill-fated Malaysian air carrier AirAsia flight QZ8501, upon their arrival at the military airbase in Surabaya, East Java on January 1, 2015 after being flown in from Pangkalan Bun, the town with the nearest airstrip to the crash site, in Central Kalimantan. Seven bodies have so far been retrieved from the Airbus A320-200 carrying 162 people, which crashed during a storm on December 28 in the sea near the island of Borneo en route from Indonesia's second city of Surabaya to Singapore. (credit:JUNI KRISWANTO via Getty Images)
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A man places a card as another photographs flowers at the site of a New Year's Eve stampede at the Bund in Shanghai on January 1, 2015. The New Year's stampede on Shanghai's historic waterfront killed at least 35 revellers, most of them women, and injured dozens more, despite efforts by authorities in China's commercial hub to mitigate the risk of overcrowding. (credit:GREG BAKER via Getty Images)
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A crowd gathers to look at flowers placed at the site of a New Year's Eve stampede at the Bund in Shanghai on January 1, 2015. The New Year's stampede on Shanghai's historic waterfront killed at least 35 revellers, most of them women, and injured dozens more, despite efforts by authorities in China's commercial hub to mitigate the risk of overcrowding. (credit:GREG BAKER via Getty Images)
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Fireworks explode around the London Eye during the New Year celebrations in central London just after midnight on January 1, 2015. (credit:BEN STANSALL via Getty Images)
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Fireworks explode above the Houses of Parliament and the London Eye during the New Year celebrations in central London just after midnight on January 1, 2015. (credit:BEN STANSALL via Getty Images)
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Fireworks explode over the clock known as 'Big Ben' housed in Elizabeth Tower, to celebrate the New Year in London, Thursday, Jan. 1, 2015. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Fireworks explode over the clock known as 'Big Ben' housed in Elizabeth Tower, to celebrate the New Year in London, Thursday, Jan. 1, 2015. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A relative of an injured citizen cries at the No.1 People's Hospital of Shanghai on January 1, 2015, in Shanghai, China. At least 35 people were killed and 42 people were injured during a stampede at a New Year's celebration at Chenyi Square of Shanghai's Bund area, according to Xinhua New Agency. The stampede happened around 11:35 pm on December 31 and injured citizens have been sent to the No.1 People's Hospital of Shanghai. The cause of the stampede is still under investigation. (credit:ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images)
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Police and medical staff give first-aid to the people injured during a stampede at Shanghai's New Year celebration at the Bund area on January 1, 2015, in Shanghai, China. At least 35 people were killed and 42 people were injured during a stampede at a New Year's celebration at Chenyi Square of Shanghai's Bund area. The stampede happened around 11:35 pm on December 31 and injured citizens have been sent to the No.1 People's Hospital of Shanghai. The cause of the stampede is still under investigation. (credit:ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images)
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This overhead view shows people being treated at the scene after a stampede by new year's revellers in Shanghai's historic riverfront in Shanghai on January 1, 2015. The stampede by New Year's revellers in Shanghai's historic riverfront area killed 35 people and injured dozens more, the city government said on January 1. (credit:STR via Getty Images)
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This overhead view shows emergency vehicles (C) amongst the crowd after a stampede by new year's revellers in Shanghai's historic riverfront in Shanghai on January 1, 2015. The stampede by New Year's revellers in Shanghai's historic riverfront area killed 35 people and injured dozens more, the city government said on January 1. (credit:STR via Getty Images)
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One Direction performs at Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve With Ryan Seacrest 2015 at CBS Television City in Los Angeles California on December 31, 2014. (credit:Mark Davis/DCNYRE2015 via Getty Images)
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Musician Taylor Swift performs during New Year's Eve 2015 in Times Square at Times Square on December 31, 2014 in New York City. (credit:Michael Stewart via Getty Images)
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Men dressed as women partake In the Viudas del a Viejoa or Old Yearas Widows tradition, in which they go around city streets where they dance and sing for drivers and in exchange they receive a couple of coins for their troubles in Quito, Ecuador, Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2014. Traditionally only men are allowed to dress up, act up and ask for money. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A child among other visitors prays for good luck during "hatsumode," or their first visit of the year, at Kawasaki Daishi temple in Kawasaki, near Tokyo, Thursday, Jan. 1, 2015. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Revellers photograph fireworks over the Arc de Triomphe as they celebrate the New Year on the Champs Elysees avenue in Paris, France, Thursday, Jan. 1, 2015. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Fireworks erupt after midnight in Times Square during the New Year's Eve celebration, Thursday, Jan. 1, 2015, in New York. Thousands braved the cold to watch the annual ball drop and ring in the new year. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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People watch fireworks exploding over Copacabana beach during New Year celebrations in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Jan. 1, 2015. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A man holds a heart-shaped hot-air balloon during the New Year's celebrations in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Jan. 1, 2015. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Belarusian Sergei Selekh plays with his 6-month-old tamed wolves on the outskirts of the village of Gaina, 45 kilometers (28 miles) north of Belarus capital Minsk, Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2014. Selekh owns a farmstead, where sheep, wolves and an ethnographic museum serve as entertainment for guests. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)