The week's best photojournalism

In some of the week's most striking images, a paraglider soars through the sky, children take a test in a forest, and more

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A paraglider soars along an Alaskan mountain range.
A paraglider soars in front of the Grandchild Peaks, near Juneau, Alaska.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer))

Students take their final exams in the woods outside a middle school in China. The school reportedly set up the outdoor area to create a calmer environment for the students.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Stringer))

Priests take pictures as Pope Francis arrives to lead a mass at Los Samanes park, in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi))

Revelers enjoy the atmosphere at the San Fermin Running of the Bulls, in Pamplona, Spain.
(Image credit: (David Ramos/Getty Images))

Britain's Prince George looks into the pram of his sister Princess Charlotte, after her christening in Sandringham, Britain.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Matt Dunham/Pool))

A polar bear dips underwater during a bath at the zoo in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Martin Meissner))

Colombian pilots in their Blackhawk-Arpia helicopters perform aerobatics during the F-Air Colombia 2015 air festival, in Rionegro.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Fredy Builes))

Children cool off on a giant Chinese chess board, at a water park in Chongqing municipality.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/China Daily))

A gull flips a herring through the air while flying away from a "robbed" delivery truck, in Rockland, Maine.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty))

NASCAR driver Austin Dillon (3) crashes into the catch fence during the finish of the Coke Zero 400, at Daytona International Speedway.
(Image credit: (Reinhold Matay-USA TODAY Sports))

Men on motorcycles keep pace with a man riding on his donkey cart, in Karachi, Pakistan.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro))

United States soccer player Carli Lloyd falls to the pitch after the U.S. beat Japan 5-2 in the FIFA Women's World Cup championship in Vancouver, British Columbia.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) **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.