The week's best photojournalism
In some of the week's most striking images, a woman tends to a field of flags, Pope Francis is fawned over by nuns, and more


A volunteer with the Massachusetts Military Heroes Fund replaces damaged flags on the Boston Common, ahead of Memorial Day.
(AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

A mahout splashes water on his elephant in Ahmedabad, India.
(REUTERS/Amit Dave)

Nuns greet Pope Francis at the Vatican.
(REUTERS/Tony Gentile)

A lobster covered in oil lies on Refugio State Beach in Goleta, California.
(REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson)

Gordon Satterly, 61, from Michigan (left) kisses his husband Richard Brand, 53, from Texas, at the International Gay Rodeo Association's Rodeo in the Rock party, in Little Rock, Arkansas.
(REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson)

Children ride on a roller coaster during their visit to the Everland amusement park, in Yongin, South Korea.
(AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

A Nepalese soldier carries a young victim of an earthquake toward a makeshift medical center.
(REUTERS/U.S. Marine Corps/Gunnery Sgt. Ricardo Morales/handout via Reuters)

Arizona softball players celebrate after a teammate tied their game against Minnesota in the bottom of the seventh inning, in Tucson, Arizona.
(AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)

A Western Lowland Gorilla baby named Mjukuu rides on the back of her mother Mbeli, in their enclosure at Taronga Zoo, in Sydney, Australia.
(REUTERS/David Gray)

Boys walk arm-in-arm behind patrolling soldiers in Bujumbura, Burundi.
(REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic)

Synchronized swimmers perform at the M&G Retreat Garden, at the Royal Horticultural Society's Chelsea Flower Show, in London.
(REUTERS/Toby Melville)

A boy, who recently arrived in Indonesia by boat, holds a ball at a shelter in Kuala Langsa.
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