The week's best photojournalism

In some of the week's most striking images, storm Ophelia descends on Ireland, the queen inspects the troops, and more

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Storm Ophelia descends on Ireland.
A woman takes a picture during storm Ophelia in Lahinch, Ireland.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne))

Rohingya refugees, who recently crossed the border from Myanmar, walk to refugee camps, in Palang Khali, Bangladesh.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Jorge Silva))

A firefighter battles a forest fire in Cabanoes, Portugal.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Pedro Nunes))

Mykh, a great gray owl, flies through a window during a training session at the Royev Ruchey Zoo in Krasnoyarsk, Russia.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin))

A Free Syrian Army fighter in the rebel-held town of Dael.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Alaa Al-Faqir))

An Afghan national army soldier attends a military maneuver near Kabul.
(Image credit: (EPA-EFE/JAWAD JALALI))

Migrants rest after arriving on a rescue boat at the Port of Malaga, Spain.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Jon Nazca))

A boy walks at a shopping mall in Tokyo.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Toru Hanai))

A cyclist rides through a meadow in Renan, Switzerland.
(Image credit: (EPA-EFE/JEAN-CHRISTOPHE BOTT))

Queen Elizabeth inspects the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery outside Hyde Park Barracks in London.
(Image credit: (EPA-EFE/ANDY RAIN))

The Ironman World Championship Triathlon gets underway in Kailua-Kona, Hawai.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Marco Garcia))

Anfisa, a 12-year-old female chimpanzee, picks her nose at the Royev Ruchey Zoo in Krasnoyarsk, Russia.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin))

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.