Pictures of the day: February 2, 2017

We look at 13 pictures from events around the world

Pakistani demonstrators hold an effigy of US President Donald Trump and India Prime Minister Narendra Modi as they shout slogans during a protest after the Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) organisation Hafiz Saeed was placed under house arrest in Muzaffarabad. PHOTO: AFP

Nearly 2,000 people float in a line setting a new Guinness world record for the most people floating while holding hands in Lake Epecuen, a salty lake, near Carhue, Argentina. PHOTO: REUTERS

Ramadan Edwan, a Palestinian barber, uses fire in a hair-straightening technique with a client at his salon in the Rafah refugee camp, in the southern Gaza Strip. PHOTO: REUTERS

An office building is photographed from a tourist platform early evening in Frankfurt, Germany. PHOTO: REUTERS

An aerial view shows lava flowing down the Piton de la Fournaise volcano on the French island of La Reunion in the Indian Ocean. PHOTO: AFP

The Edmund-Probst-Haus accomodation of the German Alpine Association is covered with frost and snow on the Nebelhorn Mountain near Oberstdorf, southern Germany. PHOTO: AFP

A Malaysian indigenous Mah Meri tribal shaman (C) goes in a state of trance during the "Puja Pantai" ritual, a thanksgiving ritual praying to the spirits of the seas, in Pulau Carey on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur. PHOTO: AFP

Participants dressed as Vikings burn their viking galley ship at the culmination of the annual Up Helly Aa festival in Lerwick, Shetland Islands. PHOTO: AFP

A paramilitary guard walks under red lanterns at a temple fair in Ditan Park during Lunar New Year celebrations in Beijing. PHOTO: AFP

Hardline Jewish settlers, supporters of the Amona outpost, northeast of Ramallah, barricade themselves inside a building as security forces prepare to evict them from a building at the wildcat settlement. PHOTO: AFP

People gather at El Zocalo Square during a protest against the increase in the price of gasoline and US President Donald Trump's plan of building a wall between Mexico and the US, in Mexico City. PHOTO: AFP

Sri Lankan police stand guard during a protest against the proposed sale of a stake in a loss-making port to a Chinese company in Colombo. PHOTO: AFP

Austria's Marcel Hirscher competes during the FIS Ski World Cup Parallel Slalom city event at Hammarbybacken in Stockholm. PHOTO: AFP