The week's best photojournalism

In the week's most eye-catching images, Chinese brides attempt a world record, Ironman athletes prepare to compete, and more

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Spanish Princess Sofia holds an umbrella at the start of a military parade marking Spain's National Day in Madrid, Spain.
The annual autumn sale of pedigree highland cattle in Oban, Scotland.
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A green sea turtle swims below the 2,300 athletes who await the start of a 140.6-mile race at the 2016 Ironman World Championship triathlon in Kailua Kona, Hawaii.
(Image credit: (Donald Miralle/IRONMAN via Getty Images))

Spanish Princess Sofia watches a military parade marking Spain's National Day in Madrid.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Juan Medina))

Women attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of people dressed as brides, in Jiangsu Province, China.
(Image credit: (China Daily/via REUTERS))

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Josh Donaldson of the Toronto Blue Jays slides safely into home plate past Jonathan Lucroy of the Texas Rangers during the American League Division Series playoffs in Toronto. (Tom Szczerbowski/Getty Images)

Spanish soldiers march in the rain in Madrid.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Francisco Seco))

A Kentucky Fried Chicken sign damaged during Hurricane Matthew in Nassau, Bahamas.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Carlo Allegri)

A mourner holds a portrait of Thailand's late King Bhumibol Adulyadej in Bangkok.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha))

A deer barks at dawn during the annual deer rutting season at Richmond Park in London.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Toby Melville))

School girls walk past riot police standing guard outside court during an appearance of students who were arrested during a protest demanding free education at Johannesburg's University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko))

Paprika chilis are hung to dry in the village of Donja Lakosnica, Serbia.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Marko Djurica)**See last week's best photojournalism.**)

Jackie Friedman
Jackie Friedman

Jackie Friedman is the assistant photo editor at TheWeek.com. She is a graduate of the photojournalism program at Kent State University and now lives in New York.