Photos of the Week: 1/23-1/29 (35 photos)
The burning of a Viking longboat during Up Helly Aa in the Shetland Islands, protests in Moldova, oil drilling rigs laid up in Scotland due to falling prices, nude statues hidden from Iran’s visiting president in Italy, a moonrise behind Toronto, and much more.
A sloth holds on to the post of a traffic barrier on a highway, in this handout photo provided by Ecuador’s Transit Commission, in Quevedo, Ecuador on January 22, 2016. Transit police officers, who were patrolling the new highway found the sloth after it had apparently tried to cross the street and returned the animal to its natural habitat after a veterinarian found it to be in perfect condition, according to a press release.
(Reuters)
http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2016/01/photos-of-the-week-123-129/433923/
