Best Photos of the Day

Gulag children's personal belongings are on display at the Gulag Museum in Moscow on December 22, 2020. Natalia KOLESNIKOVA / AFP

People wearing face masks walk under a colonnade on Berlin's Museum Island on January 15, 2021, amid the novel coronavirus / COVID-19 pandemic. John MACDOUGALL / AFP

People gather on a pier next to the Mucem museum in Marseille, southern France, on January 11, 2021 amid the Covid-19 pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus. France extends its longer overnight curfew restrictions to eight more departments from January 10, including second city Marseille, after a family cluster of the mutation identified in the UK is found. NICOLAS TUCAT / AFP

A man carries a rubber carpet towards the Museum of the Great Patriotic War (also known as the Victory Museum ) - the largest museum of military history in Russia with the biggest collection of World War II military items - at Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow on January 15, 2021. Moscow museums are to re-open by the end of January following months-long closure due to the outbreak of the coronavirus disease. Alexander NEMENOV / AFP

Ancient funerary busts that were allegedly stolen during the Syrian conflict from Palmyra, an ancient Semitic city in Syria's Homs governorate, are displayed at the museum of the northwestern city of Idlib on January 14, 2021, after they were recovered. OMAR HAJ KADOUR / AFP

People wait to be inoculated with a Covid-19 vaccine at the Chaoyang Museum of Urban Planning in Beijing on January 15, 2021. Noel Celis / AFP

In this file photo taken on December 16, 2020 Federal Government’s Commissioner for Culture and the Media Monika Gruetters delivers a speech during the opening press conference of the new Berlin Castle (Humboldt Forum) in Berlin. Germany said on January 13, 2021 it had returned to their rightful owners all the works of art identified as looted by the Nazis from the spectacular collection hoarded by Cornelius Gurlitt. Culture Minister Monika Gruetters said a total of 14 pieces had been restituted in the years since the giant trove hidden by Gurlitt, the son of a Nazi-era art dealer, came to light. Tobias Schwarz / AFP

A monkey in a cage is seen at the National Museum of Niger (MNN) or Boubou Hama Museum, which is also a zoo, in Niamey, Niger, on December 29, 2020. Issouf SANOGO / AFP

People walk their dog outside the Prado Museum in Madrid on January 10, 2021. Snowstorms in Spain left three people dead and caused chaos across much of the country, trapping motorists and shutting down the capital's air and rail links. Gabriel BOUYS / AFP

A picture taken on January 16, 2021 shows a view of the Eiffel Tower after a snowfall in Paris. 32 departments, including Paris and the entire Ile-de-France, are placed on snow-ice alert by Meteo-France. Ludovic MARIN / AFP