The week's best photojournalism
In some of the week's most striking images, a woman prepares for a parade, burnt cars smoke in China, and more
By
Sarah Eberspacher
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Revelers prepare to perform at a carnival parade in Havana, Cuba.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini))

Burnt cars sit near the site of two explosions that tore through an industrial area in the northeast Chinese port city of Tianjin.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Damir Sagolj))

Fairgoers ride on the Wave Swinger, at the Wisconsin State Fair in West Allis.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Carrie Antlfinger))

Four-week-old elephant Anjuli cuddles with his brother Assam, in Hagenbeck Zoo, in Hamburg, Germany.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer))

Baltimore Ravens wide receivers Aldrick Robinson, Darren Waller, and DeAndre Carter walk off the field after NFL football training camp in Owings Mills, Maryland.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky))

A woman prepares dough for a strudel at a cafe in central Kiev, Ukraine.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko))

Flamingos wade in Cape Town's Black River.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Mike Hutchings))

Amarion Allen, 11, stands in front of a police line in Ferguson, Missouri.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Rick Wilking))

A man rests while climbing the Cerro de Saraja, a mountain of sand, in Ica, Peru.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd))

A girl studies while sitting on top of a taxi outside her shanty home, along a road in Mumbai, India.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Shailesh Andrade))

Revelers throw colored powders in the air during the Monsoon Holi Festival, in Madrid, Spain.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Francisco Seco))

The annual Perseid meteor shower takes place above Stonehenge, in Salisbury Plain, southern England.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Kieran Doherty) **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.