Best Photos of the Day

A visitor looks at artefacts at the National Museum in Bangkok on August 14, 2020. Mladen ANTONOV / AFP

Members of the Lebanese civil society carrying brooms used for clearing debris, walk past a wall painting depicting a hanged politician and reading (death sentence in Arabic) in the partially damaged Beirut neighbourhood of Mar Mikhael on August 7, 2020. PATRICK BAZ / AFP

Chilean Sofia Shaw Zapata, student of the ballet school of the Municipal Theater poses in Santiago on August 4, 2020, amid the new coronavirus pandemic. 2020 was going to be key for promising ballet dancer Sofia Shaw. Originally from Chillan in the south of Chile, Sofia moved to the capital thanks to her perseverance and the support offered by her mother, who works as an in-house maid to finance her daughter’s dream. JAVIER TORRES / AFP

Dutch Princess Beatrix (R) walks on stage at the Concertgebouw after a concert by the European Union Youth Orchestra in Amsterdam, on August 16, 2020. Robin UTRECHT / ANP / AFP

The Montreal Symphony Orchestra performs in a parking lot at Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport on August 5, 2020, during a socially-distanced "drive-in" concert amid the COVID-19 outbreak. Music lovers jammed into an airport parking lot, socially distancing in cars to listen to the Montreal Symphony Orchestra (MSO) play Beethoven, Ravel and Mozart in between flights taking off. The MSO, one of two major symphonies in Canada's second largest city, alongside the Orchestre Metropolitain, had not performed in public since March due to the pandemic lockdown. Eric THOMAS / AFP

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Principal Trumpet Andrew Balio (L) and fellow trumpeter David Miller perform Taps at the bast of the Soldiers National Monument in the National Cemetery across the road from the Gettysburg National Military Park on August 11, 2020 in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP

Anti-government protesters hold up three-finger salutes at a rally by the Democracy Monument in Bangkok on August 16, 2020. An anti-government protest in Thailand drew at least 10,000 people on August 16, police said, the largest political demonstration the kingdom has seen in years as a pro-democracy movement gathers steam. Mladen ANTONOV / AFP

99-year-old veteran Jos Wessels prepares in Zeewolde, the Netherlands, on August 15, 2020 for the national commemoration of the end of World War II in the former Dutch East Indies at the Indisch Monument, in The Hague. Piroschka VAN DE WOUW / ANP / AFP

A picture taken on August 12, 2020, shows UNESCO-listed buildings in the old city of the Yemeni capital Sanaa. Flash floods triggered by torrential rains have killed at least 172 people across Yemen over the past month, damaging homes and UNESCO-listed world heritage sites, officials said. Mohammed HUWAIS / AFP

This picture taken on April 30, 2018 shows a view of the full moon rising behind the "Liberty Monument" in the old city of Cyprus' capital Nicosia, erected in 1973 to honour the anti-British EOKA fighters during the 1955-1959 conflict for independence from the British Empire. Amir MAKAR / AFP