The week's best photojournalism

In some of the week's most eye-catching images, police get pegged with eggs, Serena and Venus Williams hug it out, and more

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Anti-terrorism drill.
Soldiers descend from a helicopter during a counter-terrorism drill at the University of Hasanuddin in Indonesia.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Antara Foto/Abriawan Abhe))

Policemen get pegged with eggs by European farmers during a protest in Brussels, Belgium.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Eric Vidal))

Serena Williams hugs her sister Venus after winning their quarterfinal match at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Julio Cortez))

Larry the Downing Street cat waits to enter number 10 in London.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Peter Nicholls))

Yachiyo Kuge, the mother of Toshiya Kuge, who was a passenger on Flight 93, carries a lantern to place at her daughter's name at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar))

A mother reaches for her daughter's hand as they walk home after a church service in the village of Rwinkwavu, Rwanda.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Ben Curtis))

Birds eat peanuts on a cafe table in the French seaside resort of Deauville.
(Image credit: (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP/Getty Images))

English surfer Reubyn Ash during the World Surf League's Quiksilver Pro surfing competition in Morocco. (REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal)

A helicopter carries water to be dumped on a burning forest at Ogan Komering Ulu area in Indonesia's south Sumatra province, which is suffering an outbreak of forest fires.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Beawiharta))

A Syrian refugee kisses his daughter as he walks through a rainstorm towards Greece's border with Macedonia.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis))

A Palestinian boy washes a horse in the Mediterranean Sea during a sandstorm in the northern Gaza Strip.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Mohammed Salem))

Lauren Hansen
Lauren Hansen

Lauren Hansen produces The Week’s podcasts and videos and edits the photo blog, Captured. She also manages the production of the magazine's iPad app. A graduate of Kenyon College and Northwestern University, she previously worked at the BBC and Frontline. She knows a thing or two about pretty pictures and cute puppies, both of which she tweets about @mylaurenhansen.