February 2, 2017

Groundhog Club handler John Griffiths holds Punxsutawney Phil, the weather prognosticating groundhog, during the 131st celebration of Groundhog Day on Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. Phil's handler said that the groundhog has forecast six more weeks of winter weather.

Waves hit a train during heavy seas and high winds in Dawlish, in southwest Britain.

Anti-government demonstrators clash with riot policemen during a protest against the Rio de Janeiro state government and a plan that will limit public spending, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Feb. 1, 2017.

An Indonesian woman known as Linda (C) is helped by two Sharia officials after being caned for spending time in close proximity with a man who is not her husband, which is against Sharia law, in Banda Aceh.

Venezuelan soldiers take part in a military parade in Caracas, Feb. 1, 2017.

The sky clears up over a war monument in Duesseldorf, Germany.

Seats held by Democrats are empty during a boycott of the Senate Finance Committee executive session over the nomination of Steven Mnuchin to be Treasury secretary, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Feb. 1, 2017.

Harry Weiss of Germany, front, competes with his dog-sled during Trans-Thuringia 2017, a dog-sled race with purebred dogs, near Masserberg, central Germany.

People ride in electric toy tanks in Taoranting Park on the last day of Chinese Lunar New Year holidays, in Beijing, China.

A woman feeds pigeons in front of an Orthodox cathedral on a sunny day in Almaty, Kazakhstan.