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A woman walks in Seoul, South Korea.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon))

A rottweiler peers over a fence at a mink farm in Moldrup, Denmark.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Andrew Kelly))

A pygmy possum is held on Kangaroo Island, Australia.
(Image credit: (Kangaroo Island Land For Wildlife/Ashlee Benc via REUTERS))

A boy carries a fish at a market in Prayagraj, India.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh))

A venom-extraction company owner shows scorpions at his business in Cairo.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany))

A man descends into icy waters in Omsk, Russia.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Alexey Malgavko))

A man dressed as Santa Claus rappels from a cable car in Rio de Janeiro.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes))

An urban climber scales a tower in Barcelona.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti))

A one-horned rhinoceros grazes at India's Kaziranga National Park.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Anupam Nath))

Skyscrapers in London.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Toby Melville))

A humpback whale surfaces near the Statue of Liberty in New York City.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Bjoern Kils/New York Media Boat))

Rescuers move a stranded giraffe from an island on Lake Baringo, Kenya.
(Image credit: (Ami Vitale/Save Giraffes Now/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.