Photos of the day - December 7, 2016

People carry flags and effigies during a protest prior to the season opening of the famous Milan ‘La Scala’ opera house with the original two-act version of the opera ‘Madame Butterfly’ by Giacomo Puccini, in Milan; an aerial view shows the autumn scenery by the Slender West Lake in Yangzhou, east China’s Jiangsu Province; and a view of a mural at a street in Beirut, Lebanon are some of the photos of the day. (AP/EPA/Getty/Reuters/Zuma) See more news-related photo galleries and follow us on Yahoo News Photo Tumblr.