The week's best photojournalism
In some of the week's most striking images, a whale washes up on a New York beach, a kite festival gets underway in France, and more

People gather around a dead humpback whale that washed up on a beach in New York.
(REUTERS/Lucas Jackson)

A mass marriage ceremony in Bhopal, India.
(EPA/SANJEEV GUPTA)

The 31st International Kite Festival in Berck, northern France.
(AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

A camel stands in a flooded paddock after Cyclone Debbie near Rockhampton, Australia.
(AAP/Dan Peled/via REUTERS)

Construction workers eat lunch in front of a billboard in Beijing.
(AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

A woman walks in a neighborhood recently retaken by Iraqi security in west Mosul, Iraq.
(AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Flooding in Milagro, Ecuador.
(REUTERS/Henry Romero)

A family displaced by fighting in South Sudan rests in Lamwo in northern Uganda.
(REUTERS/James Akena)

A boy herds his goats in al-Baragel, Egypt.
(EPA/MOHAMED HOSSAM)

A 650-foot-long arcade of lavender in Shenyang, Liaoning province, northeast China.
(EPA)

Russian Orthodox members release birds at Annunciation Cathedral in Moscow's Kremlin.
(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Rickshaws in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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