Best Photos of the Day

SINGAPORE.- A display of crocodile-like reptile Fasolasuchus, with a mixture of crocodilian and dinosaurian characteristics, is exhibited at the Art Science Museum during a media preview in Singapore on January 23, 2014. The "Dinosaurs: from dawn to extinction" exhibition will open to visitors from January 25 to July 27. AFP PHOTO/ROSLAN RAHMAN

BEIRUT.- A bronzesmith works on a statue at his workshop in Beirut on January 23, 2013. AFP PHOTO/JOSEPH EID

TUNBRIDGE WELLS.- A WWI memorial statue is seen in Royal Tunbridge Wells, southern England, on January 23, 2014. In August 2014 the world will mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War. AFP PHOTO/BEN STANSALL.

NEW YORK.- Sotheby’s presents the first Old Masters selling exhibition, Painting Passion: The Baroque in Italy, to be held in New York from 24 January to 7 February 2014, to coincide with the auctions and special events of Old Masters Week. The selling exhibition will examine Italian paintings of the 17th century in its various themes and genres and includes important works by Bartolomeo Manfredi, Ludovico Carracci and Alessandro Magnasco. In this image: Bartolomeo Manfredi, The Capture of Christ, oil on canvas. Photo: Sotheby's.

ST. PETERSBURG.- Red flags of Russian Communists fly near a monument to the Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin during a rally to mark the 90th anniversary of his death in St.Petersburg, late on January 21, 2014. AFP PHOTO / OLGA MALTSEVA.

WASHINGTON.- People walk toward the Washington Monument January 21, 2014 in Washington, DC. The northeastern United States hunkered down Tuesday for a major snowstorm that forecasters warned could leave as much as one foot (30 centimeters) of snow in some places. Downtown Washington fell virtually silent after the federal government, seeing the swift-moving cold front approaching, closed its doors and told civil servants to stay home. Many offices and schools followed suit, as 20 mile (32 kilometer) per hour winds whipped the falling snow through the unusually quiet streets. Enough snow was expected to fall on the US capital to turn the evening rush hour into a Beltway traffic nightmare, as the storm churned its way into New York and the northeastern New England states. AFP PHOTO/Brendan SMIALOWSKI.

ISTANBUL.- The Blue Mosque (Sultan Ahmed Mosque-L), recognisable by its six minarets, and Hagia Sophia (R), now a museum but previously a basilica and later a mosque, are silhouetted during sundown on January 23, 2014, in Istanbul. AFP PHOTO/BULENT KILIC.

PARIS.- A model presents a creation for Ralph & Russo during the Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2014 collection show, on January 23, 2014 in Paris. TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO / MIGUEL MEDINA.

NEW YORK.- A tourist puts her dog next to the New York Public Library Lion for a photo in New York as the area gets hit with a strong winter storm on January 21, 2014. In New York, a storm alert was issue for noon (1700 GMT) Tuesday to 6:00 am (1100 GMT) Wednesday with as much as a foot (30 centimeters) forecast for the metropolitan region. AFP PHOTO / TIMOTHY CLARY.

ALUMA.- Israeli archaeologists excavate a 1500-year-old floor mosaic depicting the resurrection of Jesus Christ, in a newly-discovered church dating back to the Byzantine era, in the village of Aluma in southern Israel on January 22, 2014. Experts say the Christogram deliberately excluded human depiction of Jesus because of its position on the floor where worshippers would tread. AFP PHOTO/MENAHEM KAHANA