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News in Pictures – January 5th 2021

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Our picture editors bring you the best images of the day

Motorists wait in lines to take a coronavirus test in a parking lot at Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles. Photo by AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu
A pedestrian walks past a window of the largely closed KaDeWe department store, Berlin, Germany. Photo by Kay Nietfeld/dpa
A man wearing a face mask to protect against the spread of the coronavirus walks past a display of lanterns at a public park in Beijing, China. Photo by AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein
A woman walks past York Minster in Yorkshire, after Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered a new national lockdown for England which means people will only be able to leave their homes for limited reasons, with measures expected to stay in place until mid-February. Photo by Danny Lawson/PA
Chinese soldiers train in -20 degrees Celsius conditions in Kashgar in north-western China’s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. Photo by Chinatopix
Head green keeper, Richie Shields, clears flags from the course at Allerton Manor golf club, Liverpool, the morning after Prime Minister Boris Johnson set out further measures as part of a lockdown in England in a bid to halt the spread of coronavirus. Photo by Peter Byrne/PA
A person exercises their dog as they walk through snow in fields surrounded by stone walls in open countryside near Allendale in Northumberland. Photo by Owen Humphreys/PA
A Dream of the Past: Sir Isumbras at the Ford, by John Everett Millais, is prepared for hanging at the Lady Lever Art Gallery in Port Sunlight, on the Wirral, Merseyside. Three paintings – The Tree of Forgiveness and The Beguiling of Merlin, both by Edward Burne-Jones, and A Dream of the Past: Sir Isumbras at the Ford, by John Everett Millais – are returning to be re-hung at the Lady Lever Art Gallery after being loaned out to other galleries. Photo by Peter Byrne/PA
A staff member wearing a face mask cleans a multi-purpose bubble pod at a hotel in Manila, the Philippines. The hotel will open the multi-purpose bubble pods to guests in an effort to protect them from COVID-19 infection. Photo by Xinhua/Shutterstock</p> <p>
A man walks across a near deserted Waterloo Bridge, in central London. Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered a new national lockdown for England which means people will only be able to leave their homes for limited reasons, with measures expected to stay in place until mid-February. Photo by Dominic Lipinski/PA
Iranian army drones are displayed prior to a drill, in an undisclosed location in Iran. The Iranian military began a wide-ranging, two-day aerial rill in the country’s north, state media reported, featuring combat and surveillance unmanned aircraft, as well as naval drones dispatched from vessels in Iran’s southern waters. Photo by Iranian Army
Skiers ride with escape lights – lighting with a drag lift in the adventure arena in St. Corona am Wechsel in Lower Austria. The outbreak of the Corona virus (COVID-19) has resulted in a lockdown and the closure of the hotels and restaurants guided. Ski lifts can remain open. Photo by APA/Shutterstock </p> <p>