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

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One of Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus' performing elephants enters the arena for it's final show.
A wildfire rages along Highway 63 in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada.
(Image credit: (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.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Andrew Kelly))

Leicester City fans watch the Chelsea vs. Tottenham Hotspur game in a pub in Leicester City, England.
(Image credit: (Reuters / Eddie Keogh))

American slackliner Heather Larsen crosses a high wire between two towers at the Tower of David Museum in Jerusalem's Old City.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Nir Elias))

Students pick up tea leaves at a plantation in Chongqing, China.
(Image credit: (China Daily/via REUTERS))

An ewe and its lambs rest on the Isle of Lewis and Harris in the Outer Hebrides, Britain
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Russell Cheyne))

A participant shows off her flowery costume at the annual Jack in the Green parade to welcome summer in Hastings, England.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Toby Melville))

A former circus lion enjoys his new home at the Emoya Big Cat Sanctuary in Vaalwater, South Africa.
(Image credit: (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images))

A person fishes on the Yalu River in Sinuiju, North Korea, across the Chinese border.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Jacky Chen))

Bikers race during the 2016 Tour de Yorkshire in Doncaster, England.
(Image credit: (Bryn Lennon/Getty Images))

A Flamingo rests in the sun at a zoo in Cologne, Germany.
(Image credit: (FEDERICO GAMBARINI/AFP/Getty Images))

A man paddles on Lake Leman in Lausanne, Switzerland.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Denis Balibouse)**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.