The week's best photojournalism

In this week's most striking images, an elephant is decorated in Sri Lanka, children play on a tank in Afghanistan, and more

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A decorated elephant walks in a Buddhist temple in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte))

A pig named "Pigcasso" paints at an animal sanctuary outside Cape Town, South Africa.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Sumaya Hisham))

Women work on stuffed toys at a workshop in Lianyungang, China.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Stringer))

Costumed boys celebrate the eighth anniversary of the Libyan revolution, in Benghazi, Libya.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Esam Omran Al-Fetori))

A boy jumps from the remains of a Soviet-era tank near Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Parwiz))

Birds fly during a gunfight at a house in Pulwama, South Kashmir.
(Image credit: (EPA-EFE/FAROOQ KHAN))

A fire at a chemical warehouse in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain))

Belarusian servicemen take part in a "winter fun" event at their base in Minsk, Belarus.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko))

People are reflected in a vehicle window during the funeral of an Egyptian military officer in Cairo.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany))

Vehicles stuck amid praying Muslims in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain))

A woman prays between images of disgraced spiritual healer Joao Teixeira de Faria and Jesus Christ in Abadiania, Brazil.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres))

Japanese soldiers participate in a drill at Camp Pendleton, California.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Mike Blake)**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.