Best Photos of the Day

A picture taken on January 10, 2020, shows a view of the ancient Greek city of Cyrene founded in 630 BC as a colony of Thira (Santorini), on the outskirts of the Libyan town of Shehhat, east of the coastal city of Benghazi. Abdullah DOMA / AFP

View of the Temple of the Inscriptions at the archaeological site of Palenque, Chiapas State, Mexico, on January 14, 2020. The temple is the tallest and most important building in the ancient city of Lakam Ha, capital of the kingdom of B'aakal belonging to the Mayan Culture. RODRIGO ARANGUA / AFP

This picture taken on September 27, 2018 shows the ancient Achaemenid necropolis of Naqsh-e Rustam, a UNESCO world heritage site, about 12 kilometres northwest of Persepolis, in Marvdash. Sarah LAI / AFP

In this file photograph taken on May 26, 2017, a painting of seperatist General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu of Biafra leans against a wall on the floor of the Ojukwu Bunker in Umuahia, south-eastern Nigeria. A civil war opposing Biafra secessionnist tribes fighting for independance and the federal troops killed between one and two milllion people, most from hunger and disease, from 1967 to 1970 in the Biafra region in south-eastern Nigeria. STEFAN HEUNIS / AFP

A man holds an exhibit in a room of the House of the Wannsee Conference on January 16, 2020 in Berlin. A new permanent exhibition titled "The Wannsee Conference and the Genocide of the European Jews" will open here on January 19, 2020. The villa in Berlin's Wannsee district hosted on January 20, 1942 a meeting of senior government officials of Nazi Germany, who were seeking to find a "Final Solution to the Jewish question" (Endloesung der Judenfrage), and who decided on the deportation and extermination of most of the Jews of German-occupied Europe. Paul Zinken / dpa / AFP

Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway (L) welcomes children who carried over 6,000 books from Oslo´s old library to the new library building that will be opening in March, on January 16, 2020 in Oslo. Stian Lysberg Solum / NTB Scanpix / AFP

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (R) stands next to contemporary witness Frank Ebert as they look at an outdoor exhibition about the fall of the Berlin Wall and the takeover of the Stasi archives by the people outside the Agency for the Records of the State Security Service of the former German Democratic Republic on January 15, 2020 in Berlin. Steinmeier visited the Stasi Records Agency that administers the archives of the Ministry of State Security (Stasi) of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR), 30 years after citizens gained access to the Stasi headquarters, in order to prevent the destruction of files and records. John MACDOUGALL / AFP

Commissioner Mitchell J. Silver, FAICP attends as Disney+ and NYC Department of Parks install plaque that honors bronze statue of the husky named Togo in Seward Park at Seward Library Plaza on January 16, 2020 in New York City. Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images for Disney/AFP

The lettering "Free Hong Kong" is written on the base of the Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen after it has been exposed to vandalism early Monday, January 13, 2020. Thomas Sjoerup / Ritzau Scanpix / AFP

Former head of the Wallis wildlife service, Narcisse Seppey poses next to a painting showing ibexes in the mountain on January 7, 2019 in Vex. The Swiss canton of Wallis has for years quietly allowed trophy hunters to shoot ageing male ibexes already destined for elimination, but a recent documentary by Swiss public broadcaster RTS brought the trophy hunt to the attention of the broader public, sparking a heated debate about the practice and its potential impact on the viability of the species. Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP