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

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Living Goddess Kumari Unikia Bajracharya is adorned by her mother.
"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.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar))

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

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

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

Lightning flashes behind the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri.
(Image credit: (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.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Grigory Dukor))

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

Brazilian badminton players Lohaynny Vicente and her sister Luana Vicente in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
(Image credit: (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.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Damir Sagolj))

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

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

Women sell fruit in Hoi An, Vietnam.
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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.