Top Photos of the Year 2016 - Human Interest

People demonstrate a home-made "smog cannon" which fires cannonballs made of "water and tobacco tar" to remind people the importance of protecting environment, in Xiangyang, Hubei province, Dec. 27, 2016.

A man walks through a garden on an autumn day in Srinagar, India, Nov. 15, 2016.

A man walks on the top span of the Sydney Harbour Bridge as the supermoon enters its final phase in Sydney, Australia, Nov. 15, 2016.

The U.S. Navy Blue Angels numbers 5 and 6 fly below Sean Tucker (above) as he pilots the Oracle Challenger III over San Francisco, California as part of a practice run for Fleet Week, Oct. 6, 2016.

Members of the "Colla Vella dels Xiquets de Valls" team form a "castell" (human tower) during the XXVI human towers, or 'castells', competetion in Tarragona, Spain, Oct. 2, 2016.

A salt lake which is separated by a road, shows parts of it in different colors due to algae, in Yuncheng, Shanxi Province, China, Sept. 25, 2016.

Model feebee poses as part of art installation "Narcissism : Dazzle room" made by artist Shigeki Matsuyama at rooms33 fashion and design exhibition in Tokyo, Japan, Sept. 14, 2016.

A boy climbs a partially submerged electric pole as he plays with others on the flooded banks of Ganga river, in Allahabad, India, Aug. 21, 2016.

A fire artist performs during the Minsk International Fire Fest in Ratomka, near Minsk, Belarus, Aug.19, 2016.

Gorilla Kira holds her baby at Moscow's zoo, Russia, Aug. 4, 2016.

Villagers catch coin offerings released by Hindu devotees of the Tengger tribe during the Yadnya Kasada festival, on the crater of Mount Bromo in Probolinggo, Indonesia, July 21, 2016.

An emu runs to escape an approaching wildfire as it burns near Potrero, California, June 20, 2016.

Ten tables, accommodating a total of 220 guests, are suspended from cranes at a height of 40 meters in front of the Atomium, a 102-meter (335 feet) high structure and its nine spheres, built for the 1958 Brussels World's Fair, as part of the 10th anniversary of the event known as "Dinner in the Sky", in Brussels, Belgium, June 1, 2016.

A firefighter stands next to vehicles stuck in a chasm near Ponte Vecchio, Florence, Italy, May 25, 2016.

A Sadhu or a Hindu holy man lies on the thorns of a Babul tree to beg for alms on the banks of Shipra river during Simhastha Kumbh Mela in Ujjain, India, May 11, 2016.

Orthodox Christian worshipers at the Tomb of Christ as the miracle of the Holy Fire occurs in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, Israel, April 30, 2016. Eastern Orthodox Christians believe the Holy Fire, which emenates from within the Tomb of Christ and quickly spreads around the church and outside to Jerusalem and even to foreign countries, represents the flame of the Resurrection power, as well as the fire of the Burning Bush of Mount Sinai.

Spanish soldiers of the 7th Airborne Light Infantry Brigade 'Galicia' fire a howitzer Light Gun L118 during maneuvers with other units from the Training Center 'San Gregorio' in preparation to NATO's Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF) within the NATO Response Force (NRF) in Zargoza, Spain, April 19, 2016.

Wild bluebells, which bloom around mid-April, turning the forest completely blue, form a carpet in the Hallerbos, also known as the "Blue Forest", near the Belgian city of Halle, Belgium, April 17, 2016.

Ethnic Yao minority women brush their long hair as part of a performance during the local Long Hair Festival, to celebrate the third day of the third lunar month which is regarded as a traditional festival for many ethnic minorities in Huangluo village of Guilin, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, April 9, 2016. More than 80 women in the village have hair longer than 1.4 meters, with the longest reaching 2.3 meters, according to local media.

A sea lion eats sardines in the Marineland theme park on the French riviera city of Antibes, southeastern France, March 17, 2016.

South Korea's Black Eagles aerobatics team flying KAI T-50B aircraft perform an aerial display during the Singapore Airshow at the Changi exhibition centre in Singapore, Feb. 16, 2016.

The dancing lights of the Aurora Borealis is shown over the Pacific northwest taken from the International Space Station by astronaut Scott Kelly in this handout provided by NASA, January 20, 2016.

A murmuration of starlings performing their traditional dance near the southern Israeli village of Tidhar, in the northern Negev desert, Jan. 14, 2016.

A car covered with ice remains stranded on the waterfront in Hamburg, New York, Jan. 12, 2016.