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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Japanese soldiers participate in a drill at Camp Pendleton, California.
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