The week's best photojournalism

In some of the week's most moving images, sparks shower a steel worker, a pup hides in some hay, and more

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A steel worker stands in front of a furnace at German steel company Salzgitter AG's plant in Salzgitter.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer))

A Christian woman mourns her relatives, who were killed in a suicide attack on a church, during their funeral in Lahore, Pakistan.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Mohsin Raza))

Kazakhs herd their sheep during a heavy snowfall in northern Xinjiang, an autonomous region of China.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/China Daily))

A woman wearing a scarf to protect herself from pollution walks in a park in Beijing, China.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon))

Rime ice covers rocks on the summit of Mount Washington, in New Hampshire.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty))

Orthodox nuns watch firefighters work to extinguish a fire at the Novodevichy monastery, a UNESCO World Heritage site, in Moscow.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva))

A dog peeks out of a pile of hay near the Russian city of Stavropol.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Eduard Korniyenko))

A boy runs past books laid out to dry in the sun, after the roof of the Central School library was blown away by Cyclone Pam in Port Vila, Vanuatu.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Edgar Su))

Kite boarders and skiers compete in an amateur snow kiting championship, on the frozen Yenisei River, outside Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin))

A soldier walks past graffiti depicting angel wings in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez))

A maintenance worker waters a rooftop garden in the central business district of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Mark Baker))

A make-up artist blows glitter onto a model's face as she works backstage in Lisbon, Portugal.
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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.