The week's best photojournalism

In some of the week's most striking images, the Northern Lights dance over Ontario, a man crosses an empty Tokyo street, and more

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(Image credit: (REUTERS))
The glow of the Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, is seen on the horizon in the Kawartha Lakes region of Ontario.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Fred Thornhill))

Men covered in colored powder celebrate "Lathmar Holi," in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Ahmad Masood))

Peter Prevc of Slovenia soars past judges' windows during the normal hill HS100 mixed team ski jumping event, at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun, Sweden.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach))

Afghan refugee schoolgirls attend a class at a makeshift school on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen))

A fisherman casts his line as birds fly overhead, on the Sao Conrado beach in Rio de Janeiro.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes))

Vasily Yakovenko, captain of a Ukrainian military medical unit, pauses for a moment with a dog, near the village of Luhanske.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka))

Runners fill the street at the start of the Tokyo Marathon, in Japan.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Thomas Peter))

A boy holds his fighting rooster, in the western Cuban province of Pinar del Rio.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Pilar Olivares))

A man holding an umbrella crosses a street in the business district of Tokyo, Japan.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Yuya Shino))

Boys play basketball at Belarus' Republican Clinic of Speleotherapy, which is located within a salt mine and provides medical treatment for respiratory illnesses in its subsurface chambers.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko))

A bald eagle soars away with a dead chicken it plucked from the snow of a farmer's field, near Sheffield Mills, Nova Scotia.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Halifax Chronicle-Herald, Tim Krochak))

NASA astronaut Terry Virts routes a cable on the International Space Station.
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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.