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

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

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

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

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

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

A Nepalese soldier carries a young victim of an earthquake toward a makeshift medical center.
(Image credit: (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.
(Image credit: (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.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/David Gray))

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

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

A boy, who recently arrived in Indonesia by boat, holds a ball at a shelter in Kuala Langsa.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Beawiharta) **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.