The week's best photojournalism
In some of the week's most striking images, a synchronized swimming team performs, clouds float over a Buddhist academy in China, and more
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Sarah Eberspacher
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Members of Team Italy perform in the synchronized swimming free routine preliminary, at the Aquatics World Championships in Kazan, Russia.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Michael Dalder))

Clouds drift over the settlements of Larung Gar Buddhist Academy, in Sertar County of Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, in China.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Stringer))

A boy runs through shallow water on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Ahmad Masood))

Kansas City Royals first baseman Eric Hosmer (35) battles with Toronto Blue Jays fans for a pop foul, in the first inning of a game in Ontario.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Dan Hamilton-USA TODAY Sports))

A bride adjusts her dress during a wedding photo shoot at Rome's Campidoglio Capitol Hill.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino))

A hot air balloon settles amid trees on the first day of the 2015 New Jersey Festival of Ballooning, in Readington.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Mike Segar))

Dairy cows nuzzle a barn cat as they wait to be milked at a farm in Granby, Quebec.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Christinne Muschi))

A surfer swims at Barra da Tijuca beach, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes))

A Palestinian woman collects cactus fruit in a field near the West Bank village of Nilin.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman))

A tourist swims inside the Blue Cave of Kastellorizo, Greece's easternmost island.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis))

A local worker rides in a digger past a snow-free ski slope, at Wanlong Ski Resort, in China.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Jason Lee))

The Rocky Fire burns through a fence line in Lake County, California.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Max Whittaker) **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.