The week's best photojournalism
In some of the week's most striking images, the sun sets behind a Ferris wheel, Canada celebrates a win, and more
By
Sarah Eberspacher
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People ride a Ferris wheel in the port-city of Sidon, in Lebanon.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Ali Hashisho))

Canadian players mob Peter Orr, 4, after he scored the game-winning run against the United States in the gold-medal baseball game, at the Pan Am Games, in Ajax, Ontario.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Julio Cortez))

Locals watch as a firefighting plane drops water near holiday homes in Costa village, southeastern Greece.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis))

People watch as a man plays chess at a park in central Kiev, Ukraine.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko))

A French farmer makes bales of straw in his tractor, after a wheat harvest in his field in Coquelles, France.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol))

A girl launches a self-made paper plane outside Ukraine's Dutch embassy in Kiev, where people gathered to commemorate the victims of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 plane crash.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko))

Workers re-paint a red wall of the Forbidden City, in Beijing.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Jason Lee))

Cyclists hang on to the back of a truck driving away from Bujumbura, in Burundi.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Mike Hutchings))

A participant in the World Congress of Santa Clauses 2015 takes part in the annual swim, at Bellevue beach, in Denmark.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Scanpix Denmark/Erik Refner))

Pakistani youngsters react while taking a ride at a park in Rawalpindi.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed))

International Space Station crew member Oleg Kononenko of Russia smiles at his children as he stands behind a glass wall, before a news conference at the Baikonur cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov))

Mexico's Carlos Lamadrid crashes during the waterski slalom preliminary round, at the 2015 Pan Am Games.
(Image credit: (Eric Bolte-USA TODAY Sports/REUTERS) **See last week's best photojournalism**)
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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.