The week's best photojournalism

In some of the week's most striking images, a daredevil attempts a record-setting walk, bodybuilders flex their muscles, and more

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Motorcyclists wait at a major intersection in heavy rain in central Bangkok.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Mark Baker))

Guillaume Rolland of France during the Highline Extreme event in Moleson, Switzerland.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Denis Balibouse))

Hao Hao, a 6-year-old giant panda born in China, eats bamboo at the Pairi Daiza wildlife park in Brugelette, Belgium.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Francois Lenoir))

Competitors flex their muscles during the Arnold Classic Europe bodybuilding event in Madrid, Spain.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Susana Vera))

A devotee carries a statue of the Hindu god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, into the polluted waters of the river Yamuna on the last day of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival, in New Delhi, India.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Adnan Abidi))

Sparrows fly around a bird feeder in Putgarten, Germany.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke))

A Colombian Nukak Maku Indian child rests in a refugee camp at Agua Bonita, a humid outpost in the Amazon 250 miles southeast of the capital Bogota.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/John Vizcaino))

A man takes part in an extreme run competition in Zhodino, Belarus.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko))

A migrant child leans out of a train window to collect food at the railway station in Tovarnik, Croatia.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Antonio Bronic))

A surfer catches a wave as a super moon rises in the sky off Manly Beach in Sydney, Australia.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/David Gray))

Students walk along a street as they are released from school early due to the haze in Jambi, Indonesia.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Antara Foto/Wahdi Setiawan)**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.