The week's best photojournalism

In this week's most striking images, a man uses his stomach as a cutting board, a cow gets made up for her wedding, and more

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A man slicing watermelons on his stomach.
In New York City, a man tries to set a world record for the most watermelons sliced in half on his own stomach in one minute.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Brendan McDermid))

A man hugs a lioness in a zoo in Damascus, Syria.
(Image credit: (EPA-EFE/YOUSSEF BADAWI))

An artist paints a model during a bodypainting festival in Klagenfurt, Austria.
(Image credit: (EPA-EFE/FLORIAN WIESER))

A cow is decorated for her marriage to a bull in Kalara, India.
(Image credit: (EPA-EFE/SANJEEV GUPTA))

A chimpanzee covers itself with a blanket in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Nacho Doce))

A man is enveloped by high tide in Mumbai.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade))

A man splashes in a puddle during a downpour in New York City.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Brendan McDermid))

A fireman in a burning barley field in Niergnies, France.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol))

Social robots in an assembly plant in Suzhou, China.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Aly Song))

Military helicopters perform a demonstration in Taoyuan City, Taiwan.
(Image credit: (EPA-EFE/RITCHIE B. TONGO))

A plane passes the setting sun near Yosemite National Park.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Noah Berger))

Jupiter's southern hemisphere.
(Image credit: (NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill/Handout via REUTERS)**See last week's best photojournalism**)

Jacob Lambert
Jacob Lambert

Jacob Lambert is the art director of TheWeek.com. He was previously an editor at MAD magazine, and has written and illustrated for The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Weekly, and The Millions.