January 31, 2025

People watch lion dancers as they perform at a temple fair on the third day of the Lunar New Year of the Snake in China's capital, Beijing.

A follower of Seydina Limamou Laye looks on during the 145th anniversary of the day he declared he was the Mahdi, at Seydina Limamou Lahi Al Mahdi Mausoleum in Senegal's capital, Dakar.

People sit around a table atop the wreckage of their house, destroyed during the recent war between Israel and Hezbollah, in the village of al Jibbain in southern Lebanon.

Second-place Thomas Soltwedel, left, winner Fabian Menzel and third-place Jerome Boehm, right, perform after the German Deer Calling Championship on the sidelines of the Jagd & Hund (Hunting and Dog) trade fair in Dortmund, Germany.

A Hindu holy man braids his hair after taking a holy dip in the sacred waters of the Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati rivers, during the Maha Kumbh Mela festival in the Indian city of Prayagraj.

An artist dressed as Goddess Narmada, the river deity named after the Narmada river, accompanied by her vahana (deity's carrier), the crocodile, poses for pictures ahead of Narmada Jayanti celebrations in the Indian city, Jabalpur.

Palestinians pray by the bodies of 15 members of the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, who were killed in Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, in Khan Younis.

A staff cleans the floor next to robots during Digital Almaty 2025 forum, in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Students sleep in their tents at a soccer stadium as they take part in a protest of the collapse of a concrete canopy that killed 15 people more than two months ago, in Indjija, Serbia.

Kashmiri Muslims pray at the Hazratbal shrine on the Friday following Mehraj-u-Alam, believed to mark the ascension of Prophet Muhammad to heaven, on the outskirts of Srinagar, in Indian-controlled Kashmir.