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

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

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

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

Indonesian boys jump into the water from a docked tug boat in Cilacap.
(Image credit: (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.
(Image credit: (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.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Amir Cohen))

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

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

A horse pulls a sled across Khuvsgul Lake in Mongolia.
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Lauren Hansen
Lauren Hansen

Lauren Hansen produces The Week’s podcasts and videos and edits the photo blog, Captured. She also manages the production of the magazine's iPad app. A graduate of Kenyon College and Northwestern University, she previously worked at the BBC and Frontline. She knows a thing or two about pretty pictures and cute puppies, both of which she tweets about @mylaurenhansen.