The week's best photojournalism
In the week's most captivating images, lightning flashes across the Missouri sky, a "living goddess" helps usher in the harvest season, and more

"Living Goddess" Kumari Unikia Bajracharya is adorned by her mother before taking part in the Chariot Festival in Lalitpur, Nepal, where they pray for rain during the rice harvest season.
(REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar)

Cars drive past rapeseed fields near Bad Muender am Deister, Germany.
(JULIAN STRATENSCHULTE/AFP/Getty Images)

A laborer loads metal scrap onto a truck in Mumbai, India.
(REUTERS/Shailesh Andrade)

The Swiss hockey team stands on ice before a game in Moscow, Russia.
(REUTERS/Grigory Dukor)

Lightning flashes behind the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri.
(AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Russian servicemen march during the Victory Day parade, marking the 71st anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, in Moscow, Russia.
(REUTERS/Grigory Dukor)

A pilgrim on his way to the shrine of El Rocio struggles against strong wind in Donana National Park, Spain.
(REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo)

Brazilian badminton players Lohaynny Vicente and her sister Luana Vicente in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
(REUTERS/Nacho Doce)

Students carrying party flags stand under statues of former North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il at a mass rally and parade in Pyongyang, North Korea.
(REUTERS/Damir Sagolj)

Paratroopers jump out of a plane during the opening ceremony of a U.S.-led joint military exercise in Vaziani, Georgia.
(REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili)

A grizzly bear and her two cubs sit in a field at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.
(REUTERS/Jim Urquhart/File Photo)

Women sell fruit in Hoi An, Vietnam.
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