The week's best photojournalism
A two-headed tortoise, a helicopter rescue, and more
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Jacob Lambert
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Janus, a two-headed tortoise, celebrates its twenty-fifth birthday — a record for a two-headed tortoise — in Geneva.
(Image credit: FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)

Policemen stand with their dogs in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
(Image credit: ISHARA S. KODIKARA/AFP via Getty Images)

Construction workers walk past a mural in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
(Image credit: TANG CHHIN SOTHY/AFP via Getty Images)

A soccer player tries to stop a free kick during a game in Frankfurt.
(Image credit: AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Alejandro Davidovich Fokina competes in the U.S. Open in New York.
(Image credit: AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)

A child runs through an art installation at a mall in Beijing.
(Image credit: AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

A man rows his boat through lotus plants in Srinagar, Kashmir.
(Image credit: AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

A pregnant migrant is evacuated by an Italian coast guard helicopter off the coast of Italy.
(Image credit: AP Photo/Jeremias Gonzalez)

A man walks on a section of the parched Yangtze River bed in Wuhan, China.
(Image credit: STR/AFP via Getty Images)

An emaciated cow stands in a dry wash in Iresteno, Kenya.
(Image credit: YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty Images)

A wildfire burns a tree in Hemet, California.
(Image credit: AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

Waves crash off the coast of Busan, South Korea.
(Image credit: ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP via Getty Images)
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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.