The week's best photojournalism

In the week's most striking photographs, a horse leaps through fire, kids monkey around, and more

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A man rides a horse through a bonfire as part of a ritual in honor of Saint Anthony the Abbot, the patron saint of domestic animals, in San Bartolome de Pinares, Spain.
(Image credit: AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
A man falls into the icy waters of a lake as part of celebrations for Orthodox Epiphany in Minsk, Belarus.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko))

A man rides a horse through a bonfire to honor Saint Anthony the Abbot, the patron saint of domestic animals, in San Bartolome de Pinares, Spain.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Francisco Seco))

Children wearing monkey costumes play in Hancheng, China.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Stringer))

A maze of political signs in Charleston, South Carolina.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Randall Hill))

A woman carries a girl during a protest against Saudi-led air strikes, in Yemen's capital of Sanaa.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah))

The Victory Column monument at sunset in Berlin, Germany.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski))

Carlo Janka of Switzerland skis in Kitzbuehel, Austria.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger))

Women and children in traditional attire take part in a mass during the Jarramplas traditional festival in Piornal, Spain.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Susana Vera))

A tranquilized leopard lies in a cage after injuring a person in Kathmandu, Nepal.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar))

A man makes traditional candy in preparation for the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year in Yuqing County, China.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/China Daily))

A migrant walks through a frozen field after crossing the border from Macedonia, near the village of Miratovac, Serbia.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Marko Djurica))

A trained monkey wearing a traditional Korean costume performs in Goyang, South Korea.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji)**See last week's best photojournalism**)

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.