The week's best photojournalism

In some of the week's most eye-catching images, a frisbee-catching dog leaps, an amateur rope-jumper plunges, and more

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Children wearing traditional costumes attend a ceremony to mark the start of school in Nantong, Jiangsu province, China.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/China Daily))

A dog catches a frisbee during a competition in Moscow.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin))

Members of Saudi security forces take part in a military exercise before the annual Haj pilgrimage in the holy city of Mecca.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Ahmad Masood))

Novak Djokovic of Serbia jumps into his player's box, where he is embraced by family and friends after defeating Roger Federer of Switzerland in the men's singles final match at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz))

Sandstone sculpted by water and wind erosion in a slot canyon near Page, Arizona.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Rick Wilking))

An amateur rope-jumper plunges from a 144-foot waterpipe bridge in the Siberian Taiga area outside Krasnoyarsk, Russia.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin))

Muslim students pray for rain in Palembang, South Sumatra, Indonesia. More than 20 firms are under investigation by Indonesian authorities in connection with forest fires that have caused a dangerous haze to engulf large parts of South
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Feny Selly/Antara Foto))

A fisherman casts a net in the waters of a fish farm during a sudden downpour on the outskirts of Kochi, India.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Sivaram V))

A kitten with whiskers damaged by heat is inspected by a veterinarian at a property evacuated and partially burnt by the Valley Fire in Hidden Valley Lake, California.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/David Ryder))

Residents after a deadly flash flood in Hildale, Utah.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/David Becker))

Nick Johnson harvests cranberries in a bog at Gilmore Cranberry Company in Carver, Massachusetts.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Brian Snyder))

Chariya Leeds, 44, and her daughter Samantha Leeds, 5, take part in the Nashuva Spiritual Community Jewish New Year celebration on Venice Beach in Los Angeles.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson)**See last week's best photojournalism**)

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.