The week's best photojournalism
An orphaned bear cub, a fashionable cat, and more
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Taylor Watson
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An orphaned bear cub crosses a road impacted by the Dixie Fire in Plumas County, California.
(Image credit: AP Photo/Eugene Garcia)

A helicopter fights a wildfire in northwestern Athens.
(Image credit: ANGELOS TZORTZINIS/AFP via Getty Images)

A passenger gives a thumbs up as a flight from Afghanistan lands in Britain.
(Image credit: Christopher Furlong/Pool via REUTERS)

A cat sits on a protester's shoulders in Thailand.

Iraqi Shi'ite Muslims perform a ritual ahead of Ashura, the holiest day on the Shi'ite Muslim calendar.
(Image credit: Alaa Al-Marjani/Reuters)

A French eel fisherman steers his boat in the Canet-en-Roussillon lagoon.
(Image credit: RAYMOND ROIG/AFP via Getty Images)

Children participate in a sack race competition during Independence Day celebrations in Jakarta, Indonesia.
(Image credit: AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

A doll lays in rubble after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti.
(Image credit: AP Photo/Joseph Odelyn)

Iceland's Flaajokull glacier retreats.
(Image credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Water falls from a plane onto a wildfire in southern France.
(Image credit: AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

Women take part in an art project to promote peace in Bosnia.
(Image credit: AP Photo)

An orphaned bear cub crosses a road impacted by the Dixie Fire in Plumas County, California.
(Image credit: AP Photo/Eugene Garcia)

People wear hornet extraction suits during an Asian giant hornet field training day in Washington.
(Image credit: Lindsey Wasson/Reuters)
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Taylor Watson is audience engagement editor for TheWeek.com and a former editorial assistant. She graduated from Syracuse University, with a major in magazine journalism and minors in food studies and nutrition. Taylor has previously written for Runner's World, Vice, and more.