Best Photos of the Day

This file photo taken on September 23, 2019 in Paris shows a painting entitled 'La Dérision du Christ' or "The Derision of Christ" by the late 13th century Florentine master Cenni di Pepo also known as Cimabue, that was discovered in a French kitchen and which was sold on October 27, 2019, for 24 million euros ($26.6 million), about five times the initial estimate. French Minister of Culture Franck Riester on December 23, 2019, has decided to refuse the issuance of the export certificate for this major and original work by early Renaissance master Cimabue (c. 1240-1302), thus conferring on it the status of 'national treasure' for a period of thirty months. Philippe LOPEZ / AFP

Activists carry a metal sculpture of the so-called Negro Matapacos (slang for "Black Copskiller") dog in Santiago on December 20, 2019. The social movement that broke out in Chile in October had no leaders or political flags, but it does have an icon full of symbolism, the Negro Matapacos, a dog that poses in a thousand versions these days, even in heavenly murals turning it into an angel of the street. The mongrel -which died in 2017- had rose to fame in another wave of protests that shook power in 2011, when university students claimed quality and free education. Martin BERNETTI / AFP

In this file photo taken on October 04, 2007 visitors look over a poster of "Lolita" by Stanley Kubrick during an exhibition organised for the reopening of the "Palazzo delle Esposizioni" in Rome. Sue Lyon, who at 14 was cast in the title role of Stanley Kubrick’s “Lolita,” a film version of Vladimir Nabokov’s eyebrow-raising novel about a middle-aged man who becomes obsessed with a 12-year-old girl, died on December 26, 2019 in Los Angeles. She was 73. Vincenzo PINTO / AFP

A longtail boat owner, who gives tours of the water canals in the Thai capital, waits for customers outside the National Museum of Royal Barges in Bangkok on December 30, 2019. Mladen ANTONOV / AFP

This photo taken on November 8, 2019 shows an elephant being forced to paint for tourists at the commercial Maetaeng Elephant Park in the northern Thai province of Chiang Mai. Separated from their mothers, jabbed with metal hooks, and sometimes deprived of food -- Thai elephants are tamed by force before being sold to lucrative tourism sites increasingly advertised as 'sanctuaries' to cruelty-conscious travellers. Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP

An Iraqi protester puts the final touches on a mural painting amid ongoing anti-government demonstrations in the central city of Najaf on December 18, 2019. Haidar HAMDANI / AFP

A priest holds a statue of baby Jesus during the Christmas Mass at Saint Antuan Church in Istanbul, Turkey, on December 24, 2019. Yasin AKGUL / AFP

A picture taken on December 22, 2019 shows a detail of the bronze statue of iconic football player Zlatan Ibrahimovic after it was vandalised and had its nose chopped off in Malmo, Sweden. In Malmo, Zlatan Ibrahimovic's hometown, his supporters felt the iconic footballer could do no wrong, but his decision to invest in a rival club was an unforgivable sin to many. Since announcing a month ago that he was buying a stake in the football club Hammarby IF, based in Sweden's capital Stockholm, Ibrahimovic's bronze statue in Malmo has been regularly vandalised. Johan NILSSON / TT NEWS AGENCY / AFP

An aerial dancer hanging from a crane, performs during the rehearsal for the New Year's show at the Circus Maximus on December 30, 2018 in Rome. Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP

A photograph taken at sunset, on December 29, 2019 shows the Mont-Saint-Michel, northwestern France. Valery HACHE / AFP