The Fantastic Five: Best photos of the week

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

A Mogadishu street scene taken from an African Union peacekeeping force vehicle. GlobalPost’s series "Inside Somalia: Life in Hell" includes accounts of being under fire in Mogadishu and on guard duty with African Union peacekeepers, an investigation into the Al Shabaab rebels, a look at Somalia’s revered poetry and an analysis of when Somalia will improve. (Tim Freccia/GlobalPost)

A masked reveler poses in Saint Mark Square during the Venetian Carnival in Venice, Feb. 6, 2010. In Rio, the competition is fierce among samba schools to have their floats included in the main parade. (Max Rossi/Reuters)

U.S. soldiers kneel during a memorial ceremony for Captain Daniel Whitten and Private First Class Zachary Lovejoy at the Remote Sweeney Forward Operating Base in Zabul province, southern Afghanistan, Feb. 8, 2010. The soldiers were killed by an IED, which the Taliban is employing with increasingly deadly effect. (Baz Ratner/Reuters)

The first Parkour group in Egypt execute stunts during a street performance in Cairo, Feb. 10, 2010. Parkour is a physical discipline in which practitioners learn to maneuver environmental objects using only their bodies. Skills such as climbing, running and jumping are often employed. (Tarek Mostafa/Reuters)

Ecuador’s Tungurahua volcano spews molten rocks and large clouds of gas and ash close to Banos, 110 miles south of Quito, Feb. 6, 2010. One man continues to hike twice a week to the ice mines of the Chimborazo volcano, where he collects ice considered superior to the man-made variety. (Carlos Campana/Reuters)

And we couldn’t decide on the cutest animal for this week’s cute animal bonus, so we’ve included two. Let us know in the comments which one strikes your fancy.

A giraffe foal tries to stand shortly after being born at Aalborg zoo in northern Jutland, Denmark, Feb. 11, 2010. In Swaziland, wildlife — including hippopotamuses, giraffes and leopards — has made a spetacular comeback. (Henning Bagger/Scanpix/Reuters)

A picture taken through a window shows eleven day-old male chimpanzee twins lying on the body of their 29-year-old mother Brigitte at an enclosure of the Walter private zoo in the northeastern Swiss town of Gossau, Feb. 6, 2010. (Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters)