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


Revelers prepare to perform at a carnival parade in Havana, Cuba.
(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.
(REUTERS/Damir Sagolj)

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

Four-week-old elephant Anjuli cuddles with his brother Assam, in Hagenbeck Zoo, in Hamburg, Germany.
(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.
(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

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

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

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

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

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

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

The annual Perseid meteor shower takes place above Stonehenge, in Salisbury Plain, southern England.
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