The week's best photojournalism

In some of the week's most striking images, American Pharoah makes history, Obama drinks a brew, and more

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American Pharoah (far right), leads the rest of the field down the back stretch of the Belmont Stakes, on his way to a Triple Crown victory, in Elmont, New York.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow))

A woman walks toward her home in Chipinge, Zimbabwe.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi))

President Barack Obama toasts with a beer as he sits between men dressed in traditional Bavarian clothes, during a visit to the village of Kruen, in Germany.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber))

Pelicans rest on a breaker near the Coquimbo port, in La Serena, Chile.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Marcos Brindicci))

A farm boy, his face covered with sand, pauses as he leaves work near Sanaa, in Yemen.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah))

The Soyuz TMA-15M capsule carrying International Space Station crew members Terry Virts of the U.S., Anton Shkaplerov of Russia, and Samantha Cristoforetti of Italy, lands near the town of Zhezkazgan, in Kazakhstan.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Ivan Sekretarev/Pool))

A dog closes his eyes as he is groomed at a pet shop in Taipei, Taiwan.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Pichi Chuang))

A young protester is detained by riot police during a demonstration to demand changes to the education system, in Santiago, Chile.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins))

A pigeon perches on a roof in the business district of central Tokyo.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Thomas Peter))

Mark Howard Griffin, of the Philippines, competes in the men's wakeboard semifinal at the SEA Games, in Singapore.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Joseph Nair))

Buffalos escape ahead of a fire spreading across a patch of land by the Yamuna River, in New Delhi, India.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Anindito Mukherjee))

A pair of U.S. Marines jump from a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter into the Gulf of Aden, near the USS Iwo Jima, during a training exercise.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/U.S. Dept of Defense/Handout)**See last week's best photojournalism**)

Sarah Eberspacher
Sarah Eberspacher

Sarah Eberspacher is an associate editor at TheWeek.com. She has previously worked as a sports reporter at The Livingston County Daily Press & Argus and The Arizona Republic. She graduated from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.