Best Photos of the Day

For the next six weeks, Vincent van Gogh's renowned painting Sunflowers will be in the Van Gogh Museum's restoration studio. During this time, the final phase of comprehensive research into the condition of the work will be completed. The painting will also be restored in order to ensure that it is preserved for future generations in the best possible manner. Sunflowers will go back on display at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam on Friday 22 February. Photo: Kenny Nagelkerke

People visit a Led illumination exhibition in Changsha, China's Hunan province on January 10, 2019. STR / AFP

The foot on the Statue of George Washington outside the closed Federal Hall Memorial National Historic Site in Wall Street January 10, 2019. As the federal government shutdown stretches on, the impact is being felt by government employees and by federally run sites, parks, and museums across the country. If a deal isn't struck by this Saturday, it will become the longest government shutdown on record. TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP

93-year-old former Polish soldier Wojciech Narebski stands in front of a monument of brown bear Wojtek who was his fellow Polish servicemen during World War II in Krakow on November 14, 2018. The unbelievable true story of the orphaned cub, who was found by Polish troops in Persia and then travelled through Iraq, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Italy, and Scotland as a morale-booster, is now being turned into an animated movie. Janek SKARZYNSKI / AFP

A statue of Christ is covered with snow in Ruhpolding, southern Germany, on January 11, 2019. Tobias Hase / dpa / AFP

A quote on a banner in Battery Park from former US President John F. Kennedy as ferry passes by the Statue of Liberty on January 10, 2019 . New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has committed to paying $65,000 a day to ensure the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island stays open for tourists. TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP

Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chavez blesses a statue of martyred Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero after its unveiling. Filippo MONTEFORTE / AFP

Devotees carry the statue of the Black Nazarene to the carriage at the start of the annual religious procession in Manila on January 9, 2019. Throngs of believers flung themselves at a historic statue of Jesus Christ as it inched through Manila on January 9 for an annual procession that is one of the world's biggest shows of Catholic zeal. Noel CELIS / AFP

An Indian participant prepares to fly a kite during the 30th International Kite Festival near the site of the Statue Of Unity, the world's tallest statue, in Kevadiya some 200 kms from Ahmedabad in India's western Gujarat state on January 8, 2019. The festival started on January 6 and ends on January 14, 2019. SAM PANTHAKY / AFP

People walk near the Cathedral (Tromso domkirke) in downtown Tromso on January 11, 2019. At this time of year, daylight lasts about 2 hours, between 11.00 and 13.00. Olivier MORIN / AFP