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The week's best photojournalism

In the week's most eye-catching images, circus elephants perform their last show, Canada's wildfire rages on, and more

Picture of Lauren Hansen
by Lauren Hansen
May 6, 2016

A wildfire rages along Highway 63 in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada.

(Terry Reith/CBC News/Handout via REUTERS)

One of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus' performing elephants enters the arena for its final show in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

(REUTERS/Andrew Kelly)

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Leicester City fans watch the Chelsea vs. Tottenham Hotspur game in a pub in Leicester City, England.

(Reuters / Eddie Keogh)

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American slackliner Heather Larsen crosses a high wire between two towers at the Tower of David Museum in Jerusalem's Old City.

(REUTERS/Nir Elias)

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Students pick up tea leaves at a plantation in Chongqing, China.

(China Daily/via REUTERS)

An ewe and its lambs rest on the Isle of Lewis and Harris in the Outer Hebrides, Britain

(REUTERS/Russell Cheyne)

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A participant shows off her flowery costume at the annual Jack in the Green parade to welcome summer in Hastings, England.

(REUTERS/Toby Melville)

A former circus lion enjoys his new home at the Emoya Big Cat Sanctuary in Vaalwater, South Africa.

(Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

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A person fishes on the Yalu River in Sinuiju, North Korea, across the Chinese border.

(REUTERS/Jacky Chen)

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Bikers race during the 2016 Tour de Yorkshire in Doncaster, England.

(Bryn Lennon/Getty Images)

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A Flamingo rests in the sun at a zoo in Cologne, Germany.

(FEDERICO GAMBARINI/AFP/Getty Images)

A man paddles on Lake Leman in Lausanne, Switzerland.

(REUTERS/Denis Balibouse)**See last week's best photojournalism**

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