Best Photos of the Day

A soldier stands guard at the entrance of the Louvre museum as part of the "Operation Sentinelle" , on December 30, 2016, in Paris. ALAIN JOCARD / AFP

Mauro Camusso (R), owner of the wine cellar "l'Autin" and the worker Angelo Gasca pose outside the tunnel of a talc mine in Prali, near Turin, on December 14, 2016. Located in the foothills of the Italian Alps, some 50 kilometres (30 miles) southwest of Turin, the Val Germanasca mine produced talc, the material used to make talcum powder, up until the mid-1990s. And now it has found a new role thanks to Camusso deciding to pick up where his winemaker grandfather left off and get into the business. MARCO BERTORELLO / AFP

A replica of French sculptor Auguste Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty is pictured on the Ile aux Cygnes in Paris on December 28, 2016 from the Airparif balloon, the organisation in charge of monitoring the air quality in the Ile de France region. LIONEL BONAVENTURE / AFP

A picture taken as snow falls on December 29, 2016 shows a monument to Soviet Union-era political leader Sergei Kirov outside Krestovsky football stadium, also known as Zenit Arena and currently under construction for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, in Saint Petersburg. The 21st FIFA World Cup is scheduled to take place from June 14 to July 15, 2018 in Russia. For the World Cup, the stadium's name will be changed to Saint Petersburg Stadium. OLGA MALTSEVA / AFP

People visit the Mucem museum on December 28, 2016 in Marseille. ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT / AFP

This file photo taken on November 02, 2016 shows the moulin Rouge in Paris on November 2, 2016. This New Year's Eve promised to be under better circumstances than in 2015 when Paris was still in shock from the attacks. The transition to 2017 should be more festive: in addition to a big sound and light show on the Champs-Elysees, restaurants, hotels and other places have already promising bookings for the New Year's eve. For example at the Moulin Rouge, which offers a dinner show between 380 and 1,000 euros for the last night of the year and can accommodate nearly 750 people, they registered "more bookings than in 2015, because due to the attacks the bookings were low". PATRICK KOVARIK / AFP

A picture taken on December 22, 2016 shows the King's chapel at the Chateau de Versailles (Palace of Versailles) in Versailles near Paris. LIONEL BONAVENTURE / AFP

Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama offers prayers at the Mahabodhi Temple in Bodhgaya on December 29, 2016. STRINGER / AFP

The lettering "Happy New Year!" is displayed in front of the Cologne Cathedral near the station square on December 30, 2016 in Cologne, western Germany. The western German city prepares for end of year festivities, one year after sex assaults during the New Year's party at that square. Hundreds of women that night described running a gauntlet of theft, groping and lewd insults in a crush of mainly Arab and north African men. The assaults triggered a backlash against Chancellor Angela Merkel's open-door refugee policy and heightened concerns about how to integrate a record number of mostly Muslim newcomers into German society. Henning Kaiser / dpa / AFP

The silhouette of a sculpture is seen in the foreground as the sun sets behind the Eiffel Tower one day before New Year's eve festivities in Paris on December 30, 2016. MIGUEL MEDINA / AFP