A look at the best news photos from around the world.
May 3, 2021
![People visit the Vatican Museums at the Vatican on the day of its reopening after weeks of closure, as Italy eases COVID-19 restrictions.](https://gdb.voanews.com/f95b21e8-e5ee-4527-9a80-743918f2d25e_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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People visit the Vatican Museums at the Vatican on the day of its reopening after weeks of closure, as Italy eases COVID-19 restrictions.
![President Joe Biden stops outside at York High School to greet a child and his mother in Yorktown, Virginia.](https://gdb.voanews.com/4149f36e-ab07-4762-8b60-5e74fa113766_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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President Joe Biden stops outside at York High School to greet a child and his mother in Yorktown, Virginia.
![Family members mourn a COVID-19 victim as the country recorded the highest daily increase in death since the pandemic began, in Kathmandu, Nepal.](https://gdb.voanews.com/1aa815e4-6fa7-4297-85d6-3bcd0bc6ef8e_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Family members mourn a COVID-19 victim as the country recorded the highest daily increase in death since the pandemic began, in Kathmandu, Nepal.
![Workers prepare to lift the humpback whale stranded near the Segerstad Lighthouse, on the shores of the Baltic Sea, out of the water to be transported to an incineration facility, on Oland island, Sweden. (Suvad Mrkonjic/TT News Agency)](https://gdb.voanews.com/0fac0414-4a94-433e-bb2f-3faad3c9bbe5_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Workers prepare to lift the humpback whale stranded near the Segerstad Lighthouse, on the shores of the Baltic Sea, out of the water to be transported to an incineration facility, on Oland island, Sweden. (Suvad Mrkonjic/TT News Agency)