The week's best photojournalism

In some of the week's most eye-catching images, a volcano spews lava, Carnival revelers get messy, and more

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Revelers celebrate the start of Lent in the port town of Galaxidi, Greece.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis))

An armed man stands guard at the Yuzovsky metallurgical plant in Donetsk, Ukraine.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko))

A goose flies over the river Main in Frankfurt, Germany.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Michael Probst))

Judges watch Hannu Manninen of Finland at the FIS Nording Ski World Championships in Lahti, Finland.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach))

A mourning ceremony commemorating the death of Fatima, the daughter of Islam's Prophet Muhammad, in Tehran, Iran.
(Image credit: (EPA/ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH))

Sunaina Dumala grieves near the body of her husband, Srinivas Kuchibhotla — who was killed in an allegedly racially motivated shooting in a Kansas bar — during services in Hyderabad, India.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.))

Mount Etna, Europe's most active volcano, spews lava.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Salvatore Allegra))

Carryn Owens, wife of William 'Ryan' Owens, the Navy SEAL who died in a counterterrorism operation in January, attends President Trump's address to Congress.
(Image credit: (EPA/PETE MAROVICH))

A woman waits to be registered for the United Nations World Food Programme in Thonyor, South Sudan.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Siegfried Modola))

Performers during Carnival celebrations at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Mauro Pimentel))

Polar bear cub Nanuq, with her mother Sesim, is debuted to the public in a zoo in Mulhouse, France.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Vincent Kessler))

Debbie Loughridge looks out the window of her living room after a tornado destroyed her home in Naplate, Illinois.
(Image credit: (EPA/TANNEN MAURY)**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.