The week's best photojournalism
In the week's most striking images, floodgates burst in Vietnam, autumn arrives in Moscow, and more
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Kelly Gonsalves
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The charred remains of a neighborhood devastated by wildfire in Santa Rosa, California.
(Image credit: (ELIJAH NOUVELAGE/AFP/Getty Images))

A makeshift memorial in Berlin for the victims of last year's terror attack on a Christmas market.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber))

People watch as the Hoa Binh hydroelectric power plant opens its floodgates after a heavy rainfall caused by a tropical depression outside Hanoi, Vietnam.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Kham))

A young boy, draped in the Spanish flag, prepares for a parade in Madrid.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Francisco Seco))

Migrants look out of a barred door at a detention center in Gharyan, Libya.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Hani Amara))

Thousands of birds fly onto the dry sandbanks during the month's highest tide at The Wash estuary in Norfolk, Britain.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Toby Melville))

Men worship during a weekly Friday prayer ceremony in Tehran, Iran.
(Image credit: (EPA-EFE/ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH))

A woman looks up at the roof inside the ruins of her house after an earthquake in San Jose Platanar, Mexico.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Edgard Garrido))

A visitor enjoys a light installation during the Signal Festival in Prague, Czech Republic.
(Image credit: (EPA-EFE/MARTIN DIVISEK))

Boston Red Sox DH Hanley Ramirez breaks his bat during Game 4 of the American League Division Series against the Houston Astros.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer))

People walk along a path surrounded by autumn trees in a park in Moscow.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko))

Pope Francis spreads incense at the altar during the 100th anniversary of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches in Rome.
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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.