News in Pictures – February 1st 2021 By Gemma Bibby February 1 2021, 7:20pm February 1 2021, 7:20pm Share News in Pictures – February 1st 2021 Share via Facebook Twitter Linkedin Whatsapp Messenger Email Post link https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/uk-world/1938907/news-in-pictures-february-1st-2020/ Copy Link Our picture editors bring you the best images of the day Unauthorized rally in support of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Ufa, Russia. Photo by Kommersant Photo Agency/Shutterstock Daily life in Taiwan amid domestic outbreak of Covid, New Taipei. Photo by Daniel Ceng Shou-Yi/ZUMA Wire/Shutterstock Fleur Waterston who would normally be working as a volunteer at the world famous Snowdrops park, Welford Park looks as the plants that have come out in bloom, Newbury, UK. Photo by DAVID HARTLEY/Shutterstock A man is seen crossing a bridge over a frozen and snow covered loch at Millbuies country park near Elgin, Scotland. Forecasters are predicting a return of the ‘beast from the east’ across the UK this week with heavy snow and ice due to affect many regions. Photo by Pete Summers/Shutterstock A visitor walks down a staircase, designed by architect Giuseppe Momo in 1932, as she leaves the Vatican Museums, at the Vatican. The Vatican Museums reopened Monday to visitors after 88 days of shutdown following COVID-19 containment measures. Photo by AP Photo/Andrew Medichini Pedestrians stroll down a snow covered sidewalk in Chicago’s Grant Park, as light snow falls during day two of a winter storm that is expected to dump nearly one foot of snow in the greater Chicago area. Photo by AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast Christine Barry lifts her son, Oran, up to kiss a statue of St Brigid as they visit St Brigid’s holy well in Co Kildare to mark St Brigid’s Day which is seen by many in Ireland as the first day of Spring. Photo by Niall Carson/PA Stonemason Theo Cadet puts the finishing touches to a tracery piece for a stained glass window at Matthias Garn Master Mason and Partner’s stonemasonry workshop in York. Photo by Danny Lawson/PA The Federal Chancellery is reflected in a puddle prior to a meeting of German Chancellor Angela Merkel with with state governors and officials from EU and pharmaceutical companies about the vaccination situation against the COVID-16 disease in Berlin, Germany. Photo by Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP Pro-democracy protesters clash with riot police during Myanmar protest against Coup in Bangkok, Thailand. Photo by Geem Drake/SOPA Images/Shutterstock A greenskeeper at Wallasey Golf Club, Wirral mows the green during lockdown. Golf clubs around the UK remain under strict restrictions due to the Coronavirus Pandemic as Government social distancing laws prohibit games being played. Photo by Paul Greenwood Photography/Shutterstock Women enjoy a cup of tea while they harvest a potato crop in the Beni Suef Governorate of Egypt. Photo by Sayed Jaafar/IMAGESLIVE via ZUMA Wire/Shutterstock