Best Photos of the Day

A man looks around an empty cloister of the Convent of Santa Catalina, a religious complex symbol of colonial architecture dating from the 16th century and a major tourist site, in Arequipa, 1000 km south of Lima, on June 9, 2020 amid the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. Peru, considered as one of America's and the world's leading tourism destinations, closed down its borders on March 16, 2020 seeking to curve the spread of the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The halt of the tourism industry caused many to lose their jobs and has led to the slow deterioration of some of the well known tourist sites. Diego RAMOS / AFP

Norway's Minister of Climate and Environment Sveinung Rotevatn officially starts the excavation of Gjellestadskipet, a viking ship discovered in the ground near Halden, some 100 km south of Oslo, on June 26, 2020. Fredrik Hagen / NTB Scanpix / AFP

Egyptian archaeologist and former antiquities minister Zahi Hawass poses during a photo session in Cairo on June 22, 2020. Khaled DESOUKI / AFP

Metropolitan police press officer Melanie Pressley (R) gives a statement outside the Old Bailey on behalf of the family of the victim, in London on June 26, 2020, after a troubled British teenager who threw the six-year-old French boy off a viewing platform at London's Tate Modern art gallery last year was jailed for life. Judge Maura McGowan told Jonty Bravery, 18, he would spend at least 15 years in custody for attempting to murder the boy in front of horrified crowds on August 4 last year. Tolga AKMEN / AFP

A tourist wearing a face mask poses for a photograph as the sun shines through a window on a spot inside the Hagia Sophia Museum in Istanbul on June 26, 2020. The nation of some 83 million has removed most restrictions regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, reopened restaurants and resumed mass prayers but officials have warned against complacency. Ozan KOSE / AFP

A person looks at a painting by Victor Brauner entitled Matriarcat at the Hotel d'Assezat museum in Toulouse on June 25, 2020. The Hotel d'Assezat will host an exhibition of a collection of the Treilles foundation for the re-opening of the museum from june 26 to august 30, 2020. Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP

A young man jumps over the fire as people take part in a traditional mid-summer solstice night celebration (Rasos Festival) at the Open-Air Museum of Lithuania in Rumsiskes, east of Kaunas, Lithuania, on late June 23, 2020. PETRAS MALUKAS / AFP

A picture taken on June 23, 2020 shows detail of the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" also known as La Gioconda at the Louvre Museum in Paris. The Louvre museum will reopen its doors on July 6, 2020, after months of closure due to lockdown measures linked to the COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the novel coronavirus. The coronavirus crisis has already caused "more than 40 million euros in losses" at the Louvre, announced its president and director Jean-Luc Martinez, who advocates a revival through "cultural democratization" and is preparing a "transformation plan" for the upcoming Olympic Games in 2024. THOMAS SAMSON / AFP

The Victoria and Albert museum, currently closed to visitors due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, is pictured in west London on June 23, 2020. ˜Pubs, restaurants, hotels and hairdressers in England will reopen from July 4, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced Tuesday, as part of plans to further ease the coronavirus lockdown. "Today we can say that our long national hibernation is beginning to come to an end," Johnson told parliament but warned restrictions would be imposed if the virus returned. The two-metre social distancing rule will also be cut in England from July 4, after complaints from companies that keeping it made business impossible. JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP

A visitor wearing a protective facemask admires the view from the Eiffel Tower during its partial reopening on June 25, 2020, in Paris, as France eases lockdown measures taken to curb the spread of the COVID-19 caused by the novel coronavirus. Tourists and Parisians will again be able to admire the view of the French capital from the Eiffel Tower after a three-month closure due to the coronavirus -- but only if they take the stairs. Thomas SAMSON / AFP