The week's best photojournalism

In some of the week's most striking images, Vladimir Putin pays his respects, big-wave surfers compete, and more

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Russian President Vladimir Putin pays his respects to slain Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov, during the funeral ceremony at the Russian Foreign Ministry in Moscow.
(Image credit: (ALEXEI NIKOLSKY/AFP/Getty Images))

Kashmiri fishermen cover their heads and part of their boats with blankets and straw as they wait to catch fish in Anchar Lake, Srinagar, India.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Danish Ismail))

British big-wave surfer Tom Butler drops in on a wave during the Nazare Challenge championship at Praia do Norte in Nazare, Portugal.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Rafael Marchante))

A woman and her dog mark the winter solstice at the 5,000 year-old stone age tomb of Newgrange in the Boyne Valley at sunrise in Newgrange, Ireland.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne))

Former astronaut and United States Senator John Glenn lies in state, under a U.S. Marine honor guard, in the Rotunda of the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus.
(Image credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls/Handout via REUTERS))

A cheetah mother licks one of her six cubs at Burgers' Zoo in Arnhem, the Netherlands.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Peter Dejong))

A memorial for the victims of the Christmas market attack in Berlin, Germany.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke))

Costumed participants take a break during a traditional Perchtenlauf (Perchten parade) in Osterseeon near Munich, Germany.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Michaela Rehle))

The Ft. Logan National Cemetery in Denver.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Rick Wilking))

A pile of seized narcotics and alcoholic drinks burns on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Omar Sobhani))

President-elect Donald Trump greets a group of Azalea Trail Maids during a stop on his USA Thank You Tour in Mobile, Alabama.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Lucas Jackson))

Men rest while waiting for a Mass in honor of the Catholic Saint Lazarus in El Rincon, Cuba.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)**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.