The week's best photojournalism
In some of the week's most memorable images, men race through a shower of sparks, wild horses try to escape a roundup, and more


Men perform a fire-dragon dance through a shower of sparks, as they celebrate the Lantern Festival, in Meizhou, China.
(REUTERS/Stringer)

Cats crowd into a harbor on Aoshima Island, in the Ehime prefecture in southern Japan. An army of cats outnumber the people on the remote island, curling up in abandoned houses or strutting about the streets.
(REUTERS/Thomas Peter)

Widows daubed in color take part in Holi celebrations at an ashram in Vrindavan, India.
(REUTERS/Ahmad Masood)

A visitor to the Korean War Veterans Memorial shields himself from the falling snow in Washington, D.C.
(REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)

Indonesian boys jump into the water from a docked tug boat in Cilacap.
(REUTERS/Darren Whiteside)

A wild horse tries to escape as a helicopter from the Bureau of Land Management herds the animals into a trap, along Highway 21, south of Garrison, Utah.
(REUTERS/Jim Urquhart)

A Jewish settler dressed as a clown juggles in front of the Tomb of the Patriarchs, during a parade marking the Jewish holiday of Purim, in the West Bank city of Hebron.
(REUTERS/Amir Cohen)

A farmer pulls an old fishing net over a rice field to protect it from birds in Cilacap, Indonesia.
(REUTERS/Darren Whiteside)

Brazilian children laugh and smear cream across their faces, after taking their share of a 450-meter-long cake made to celebrate the 450th anniversary of the city of Rio de Janeiro.
(REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes)

Arthur Ward stands eye-to-eye with his Pyrenean Mountain dog named Cody, on the first day of the Crufts Dog Show, in Birmingham, England.
(REUTERS/Darren Staples)

A Buddhist monk prays at the Wat Phra Dhammakaya temple, north of Bangkok, before a ceremony on Makha Bucha Day.
(REUTERS/Damir Sagolj)

A horse pulls a sled across Khuvsgul Lake in Mongolia.
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