The week's best photojournalism

In some of the week's most striking images, dairy cows compete in a beauty pageant, carnival revelers get into the spirit, and more

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Brazillian smoked prawns.
A bus heads to a refugee camp south of Mosul, Iraq.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra))

A man smokes prawns on a wood-fired oven on the coast of Bahia state, Brazil.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Nacho Doce))

The 44th annual dairy cow beauty pageant in northwestern Germany.
(Image credit: (CARMEN JASPERSEN/AFP/Getty Images))

Susanna Travis (left) embraces Timothy Powers before evacuating the main protest camp against the Dakota Access oil pipeline near Cannon Ball, North Dakota.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Terray Sylvester))

African refugees and migrants wait to be assisted by an NGO off the Libyan coast.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Santi Palacios))

Members of the opening committee perform during the opening ceremony of the traditional Opera Ball in Vienna, Austria.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger))

Four men dressed as kings arrive in Cologne, Germany, for the start of a street carnival.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Martin Meissner))

A firefighter battles a blaze in Sydney, Australia.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Jason Reed))

A losing soccer match in England.
(Image credit: (Action Images/Tony O'Brien))

Women sit on chairs in the Dead Sea in Ein Bokeq, Israel.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/ Ammar Awad))

Four rare white lion cubs sit with their mother at the zoo in Magdeburg, Germany.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Jens Meyer))

A Palestinian man rides his horse on a beach in Gaza City.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Mohammed Salem)**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.