The week's best photojournalism
In the week's most striking images, sunflowers wilt, sea mammals kiss, and more
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Kelly Gonsalves
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Sunflowers wilt during a heatwave near the village of Kamen Brag, Bulgaria.
(Image credit: (EPA-EFE/VASSIL DONEV))

A Rohingya Muslim girl holds her few-hours-old brother as doctors check her mother in Kutupalong refugee camp, Bangladesh.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Dar Yasin))

People take pictures from the campus of Pepperdine University as the sun sets over the Pacific Ocean in Malibu, California.
(Image credit: (EPA-EFE/MIKE NELSON))

Passengers ride a tram in Kiev, Ukraine.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko))

Athletes dive in at the start of the Spanish Triathlon Championship in Valencia, Spain.
(Image credit: (EPA-EFE/Juan Carlos Cardenas))

A lightning bolt strikes over the village of Bardovci, Macedonia.
(Image credit: (EPA-EFE/SASO LICOVSKI))

A Syrian man living in Cyprus kisses his children, who recently arrived at a refugee camp, outside Nicosia, Cyprus.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Yiannis Kourtoglou))

A tightrope walker performs in front of the Major Cathedral in Marseille, France.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Jean-Paul Pelissier))

The 6th annual Day of Colors in Thermi, Greece.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Alexandros Avramidis))

A California sea lion and walrus kiss during a show at an amusement park in Yokohama, Japan.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye))

A boat sails on the Nile River near Cairo.
(Image credit: (EPA-EFE/MOHAMED HOSSAM)**See last week's best photojournalism**)
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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.