Best Photos of the Day

An Indian tourist poses for photos taken by friend next to a faux demolished wall, recreating post-Partition violence debris, during the re-inauguration ceremony of the Partition Museum in Amritsar on August 17, 2017. This month marks 70 years since British India split into two nations -- Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan -- and millions were uprooted in one of the largest mass migrations in history. NARINDER NANU / AFP

A waiter walks past a painting depicting Russian Baltic Fleet sailors in a hotel restaurant in Yekaterinburg, on August 18, 2017 The city of Yekaterinburg will host several games of the FIFA World Cup 2018. Mladen ANTONOV / AFP

Underwater archaeologist Ibrahima Thiaw (L) and graduate students from Dakar's Chiekh Anta Diop university work on a boat during an expedition to find traces of slave shipwrecks on May 16, 2017 off the island of Goree, once a west African slaving post. Underwater archaeologist Ibrahima Thiaw has spent years scouring the sea bed off the island of Goree, never losing hope of locating the elusive vessels with a small group of students from Diop university. Goree was one of the largest slave-trading centres on the African coast between the 15th and 19th century, according to the United Nation's cultural agency UNESCO, and Thiaw believes his mission has a moral purpose: to heal the open wounds that slavery has left on the continent. SEYLLOU / AFP

Detail of one of the friezes found at the Garagay archaeological complex in Lima, taken on May 24, 2017. In a poor neighbourhood north of Lima, Peruvian archaeologists discovered high relief friezes in a 3,500-year-old pre-Hispanic sanctuary that has survived invasions, looting, illegal construction, and dynamite attacks by the Maoist Shining Path terrorist group. Cris BOURONCLE / AFP

A volunteer from the California Science Museum draws outlines of people's shadows in chalk to explain movement of the planets and the Sun during the Solar Eclipse Festival at the California Science Center in Los Angeles, California on August 19, 2017, two days before The Solar Eclipse on Monday August 21. FREDERIC J. BROWN / AFP

A Kuwaiti boy flashes the sign for victory at the Al-Qurain Martyr's Museum on August 2, 2017, on the 27th anniversary of the 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. The Al-Qurain Martyr's Museum is the home of a battle which lasted 10 hours between invading Iraqi troops and a group of Kuwaiti fighters during the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait. The battleground house has been converted to the Al-Qurain Martyr's Museum. Yasser Al-Zayyat / AFP

A man reads a lexicon as he sits inside a library van in central Athens on August 9, 2017. There are increasingly initiatives in Greece to offer reading and books to the tens of thousands of refugees stranded in the country. LEFTERIS PARTSALIS / AFP

Head of Pacific Collections at the Australian Museum, Michael Mel (L), shows Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare (R) around a Pacific exhibition in Sydney on August 15, 2017. Sogavare is on a six-day official visit to Australia. WILLIAM WEST / AFP

A plaque with soldiers killed in action and died in service is seen on the base of a Confederate monument in Four Freedoms Park in the midst of a national controversy over whether Confederate symbols should be removed from public display on August 19, 2017 in Madison, Florida. The issue is at the heart of a debate about race in America and a recent protest in Charlottesville, VA turned deadly as white-supremacists clashed with counter-demonstrators over a confederate statue. Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP

A picture taken on July 27, 2017 in the Bulgarian capital Sofia, shows a view of St. Alexander Nevski Orthodox Cathedral, with its golden dome. Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP