The week's best photojournalism

In the week's most striking images, a soldier commemorates the fallen, Ringling Bros. performs for the last time, and more

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A U.S. soldier places American flags at the headstones at Arlington National Cemetery.
A participant runs through a fog of colored powder during the Get Rainbowed run in Prague.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/David W Cerny))

A soldier from the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment takes part in "Flags-in," where a flag is placed at each of the 284,000 headstones at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque))

A fisherman stitches nets as his child sleeps beside him on the outskirts of Kochi, India.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Sivaram))

Members of the Russian Young Pioneers attend a ceremony, organized by the Russian Communist Party, for new members in Moscow.
(Image credit: (EPA/SERGEI ILNITSKY))

Dancers from East Arnhem Land perform at the opening ceremony for the National Indigenous Constitutional Convention in Mutitjulu, Northern Territory, Australia.
(Image credit: (EPA/LUCY HUGHES JONES))

President Donald Trump touches the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun))

Supporters hug during a rally after Taiwan's constitutional court ruled that same-sex couples have the right to legally marry — the first such ruling in Asia — in Taipei, Taiwan.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Tyrone Siu))

Children gather around a man making Kunafa, a Middle Eastern dessert usually eaten during Ramadan, in Cairo, Egypt.
(Image credit: (EPA/MOHAMED HOSSAM))

Jets of the Italian Air Force's 'Frecce Tricolori' perform a formation flight above Taormina, Sicily for the G7 summit.
(Image credit: (EPA/ANGELO CARCONI))

A member of the Dietrich farmer family participates in the 'Alpfahrt,' the ceremonial driving of cattle to the alps, in Urnaesch, Switzerland.
(Image credit: (EPA/GIAN EHRENZELLER))

Marcel 'Le Corgi' perches his paws on a display at the Royal Horticultural Society's Chelsea Flower show in London.
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Kelly Gonsalves
Kelly Gonsalves

Kelly Gonsalves is a sex and culture writer exploring love, lust, identity, and feminism. Her work has appeared at Bustle, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, and more, and she previously worked as an associate editor for The Week. She's obsessed with badass ladies doing badass things, wellness movements, and very bad rom-coms.