The Fantastic Five: Best photos of the week

BOSTON — From GlobalPost’s editors, a selection of the best pictures of the week.

Russia’s Alexander Tretyakov hits the padding at the end of his second heat in the men’s skeleton event at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, Feb. 18, 2010. U.S. speedskater Apolo Anton Ohno has locked horns with the Koreans, and Saturday’s 1,000-meter race promises to have all the highs and lows of an epic blood rivalry. (Jim Young/Reuters)

"Ants," a work by Colombian artist Rafael Gomez Barros, covers the National Congress in Bogota, Feb. 16, 2010. Barros said the ants symbolize the people displaced by the continuing armed conflict in Colombia. Watch another Colombian artist who spent six years illustrating Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude.” (John Vizcain/Reuters)

A child takes part in carnival festivities in the northeastern Brazilian city of Olinda, Feb. 13, 2010. Read about Rio’s elaborate float-making competition, one of the world’s weirdest carnivals in Binche and Cologne’s carnival, an annual declaration of cultural independence from the rest of the nation. (Alex Almeida/Reuters)

A man performs martial arts on the top of wooden totem poles during a show celebrating the Spring Festival at a park in Xiangfan, Hubei province, on the first day of the Chinese New Year, Feb. 14, 2010. As China welcomes the Year of the Tiger, renewed protection efforts are underway that just may help the wild Siberian tiger. (Stringer/Reuters)

Bathers play chess while relaxing in Szechenyi Bath during a winter morning in Budapest, Feb. 12, 2010. (Laszlo Balogh/Reuters)

And this week’s cute animal bonus:

Old English Sheepdogs are groomed during the first day of the 2010 Westminster Dog Show in New York, Feb. 15, 2010. (Jeff Zelevansky/Reuters)