Team Canada forward Brett Ritchie, right, battles for the loose puck with Russia goalie Andrei Makarov, left, during first period IIHF World Junior Championships hockey action in Ufa, Russia.Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press
Palestinian fishermen prepare their nets as the sun sets on a beach in Gaza City, on the last day of the year.SUHAIB SALEM/Reuters
A Free Syrian Army fighter pulls a boy off the street as a sniper fires during fighting with forces loyal to President Bashar el-Assad in Aleppo city, Syria.AHMED JADALLAH/Reuters
Palestinian youths are silhouetted as they hang a string of Fatah flags during a rally marking the 48th anniversary of the founding of the Fatah movement in the West Bank town of Bethlehem.AMMAR AWAD/Reuters
Visitors look at a sand sculpture designed to celebrate the 2013 new year by sand artist Sudarshan Pattnaik on the beach in Puri, India.STRINGER/Reuters
Fireworks light the sky above the Cathedral Square in Vilnius, Lithuania, shortly after midnight, greeting the New Year.Mindaugas Kulbis/The Associated Press
People celebrate on New Year’s Eve in Red Square in Moscow.TATYANA MAKEYEVA/Reuters
People skate on an ice rink Sunday night in Chicago, Illinois.Nam Y. Huh/The Associated Press
The ski hill at Centennial Ski and Snowboard Centre in Toronto opened for the season on Monday.Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail
Visitors explore the 20-foot high Ice Castle at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota. The Ice Castle is made of icicles organically grown from four million gallons of water and then fused together.Chris Polydoroff/The Associated Press
Mike Kuzia of Detroit blows his horn during New Years Eve celebrations in Niagara Falls, Ontario.Glenn Lowson/The Globe and Mail
A couple watches the light of the setting sun on the snow-covered North Shore mountains for the final time in 2012 as they walk along Kits beach in Vancouver, B.C.Jeff Vinnick/The Globe and Mail
Revellers write the number 2013 with sparklers during the Hogmanay (New Year) street-party celebrations in Edinburgh, Scotland.DAVID MOIR/Reuters
People skate at Nathan Phillips Square in front of Toronto City Hall as they join the crowds gathering to celebrate New Years Eve.Michelle Siu/The Canadian Press