The week’s best photojournalism

In some of the week's most striking images, boys paddle their boats through fog, a bear chomps on an icy snack, and more

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Boys tie up their boats as fog rolls over the banks of the Yamuna river, on a cold evening in Allahabad, India.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Jitendra Prakash))

French police officers carry the flag-draped coffin of their late colleague, Franck Brinsolaro, at the end of a national tribute for the three police officers killed in Paris during last week's terrorist attacks.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Francois Mori/Pool))

People carrying umbrellas cross a street during heavy rain in Tokyo.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Thomas Peter))

A common green mamba glances out from its enclosure at Munich's Hellabrunn Zoo, Germany.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Michael Dalder))

A displaced Afghan girl plays near her family's shelter at a refugee camp in Kabul.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Omar Sobhani))

Thousands of starlings fly over marshes as they return to roost at dusk near Glastonbury, England.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Toby Melville))

A "Sadhu," or Hindu holy man, whips his hair back while taking a dip at the confluence of the river Ganges and the Bay of Bengal, at Sagar Island, south of Kolkata.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri))

A worker stacks bricks on his head at a factory in Lalitpur, Nepal.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar))

The Amazon forest stretches out from an observatory in Sao Sebastiao do Uatuma, Brazil.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Bruno Kelly))

Schoolchildren dressed as Swiss Guards rest while they wait for the arrival of Pope Francis, outside the Manila Cathedral, in the Philippines.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Erik De Castro))

A grizzly bear eats frozen fruits on a hot summer day at Rio de Janeiro's zoo.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Sergio Moraes))

Hundreds of thousands of French citizens march through the streets of Paris, showing solidarity for the victims of last week's terrorist attacks.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Eric Gaillard)**See last week's best photojournalism**)

Lauren Hansen
Lauren Hansen

Lauren Hansen produces The Week’s podcasts and videos and edits the photo blog, Captured. She also manages the production of the magazine's iPad app. A graduate of Kenyon College and Northwestern University, she previously worked at the BBC and Frontline. She knows a thing or two about pretty pictures and cute puppies, both of which she tweets about @mylaurenhansen.