The week's best photojournalism

In some of the week's most striking images, the world celebrates Carnival, a shaggy dog fights the wind, and more

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Costumed revelers in protective helmets throw oranges during Carnival in the northern Italian Piedmont town of Ivrea, Italy.
(Image credit: The Associated Press)
Costumed revelers throw oranges during Carnival in Ivrea, Italy.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Luca Bruno))

Supporters of presidential candidate Faustin-Archange Touadera rally during a sand storm in the streets of Bangui, Central African Republic.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Jerome Delay))

Bruno, a bearded collie cross, walks against the wind in Cornwall, England.
(Image credit: (Matt Cardy/Getty Images))

Emergency rescuers continue to search for the missing in a collapsed building following an earthquake in Tainan, Taiwan.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Wally Santana))

Flowers are for sale in Vienna, Austria.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger))

Brazilian model Sabrina Sato parades for Gavioes da Fiel samba school during Carnival in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Paulo Whitaker))

A man feeds seagulls on a beach along the Arabian Sea in Mumbai, India.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui))

A man prays at the Cut Meutia Mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Garry Lotulung))

Rescue workers stand beside wreaths in front of two trains that collided head-on near Bad Aibling, Germany.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader))

A man walks under snow-covered trees in Tangmarg, India.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Danish Ismail))

Carnival revelers in Sao Luiz do Paraitinga, Brazil.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Roosevelt Cassio))

A man reads the Koran outside the Al-Masjid al-Nabawi, (the Mosque of the Prophet) in Medina, Saudi Arabia.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh)**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.