The week's best photojournalism

In some of the week's most striking images, astronauts parachute down to Earth, a Mexican bull rider gets caught, and more

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The Soyuz TMA-14M capsule, holding International Space Station crew members Barry Wilmore of the U.S. and Alexander Samokutyaev and Elena Serova of Russia, descends via parachute to a landing spot in central Kazakhstan.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Bill Ingalls/NASA/Handout via Reuters))

Girls wearing traditional attire take part in a celebration marking International Women's Day in Kathmandu.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar))

Cross-country skiers climb a hill during the Engadin Ski Marathon near the Swiss mountain resort of St. Moritz.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann))

A 1-month-old lion cub plays with a rope at the Africam Safari park in Puebla, Mexico.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Imelda Medina))

A Free Syrian Army fighter rests in a thicket beside a highway between Aleppo and Damascus.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi))

Attendants prepare tea for delegates ahead of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, at the Great Hall of the People, in Beijing.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon))

U.S. Marines perform maintenance checks on an AH-1Z Viper helicopter, aboard the USS Anchorage, off the coast of San Diego, California.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/U.S. Marine Corps/Sgt. Jamean Berry))

Children wearing padded hoods meant to protect against falling debris sit on a playground during an earthquake simulation exercise at an elementary school in Tokyo, Japan.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Issei Kato))

A South Korean military officer runs into an echelon, during a ceremony for 6,478 new officers from the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines, at the country's military headquarters in Gyeryong.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji))

A student protester peeks out from a prison vehicle as he waits to be transported with others to a court in Letpadan, Myanmar.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun))

Teammates struggle to lift a bull off the trapped leg of a charro during a bull riding event at a charreada in Mexico City.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell))

Mourners crouch next to thousands of lanterns, lit up to honor the victims of the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami in Natori, Japan.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Kyodo) **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.