• Tourist guides with a camel wait for tourists to offer a ride at the historical site of the Giza Pyramids in Giza, near Cairo. Hassan Ammar / AP Photo
    Tourist guides with a camel wait for tourists to offer a ride at the historical site of the Giza Pyramids in Giza, near Cairo. Hassan Ammar / AP Photo
  • A worker climbs on a cellular communication tower in Oakland, California. The US Labor Department is asking mobile phone providers to increase safety training for crews who perform work on cell tower sites in the United States. Justin Sullivan / Getty Images / AFP
    A worker climbs on a cellular communication tower in Oakland, California. The US Labor Department is asking mobile phone providers to increase safety training for crews who perform work on cell tower sites in the United States. Justin Sullivan / Getty Images / AFP
  • Security cameras are installed on a lamp post in front of Tiananmen Gate in Beijing, China. Alexander Yuan / AP Photo
    Security cameras are installed on a lamp post in front of Tiananmen Gate in Beijing, China. Alexander Yuan / AP Photo
  • Steam from the Jeffrey Energy Center coal-fired power plant is silhouetted against the setting sun as the facility generates power in Kansas. Charlie Riedel / AP Photo
    Steam from the Jeffrey Energy Center coal-fired power plant is silhouetted against the setting sun as the facility generates power in Kansas. Charlie Riedel / AP Photo
  • A farmer shouts while running alongside his oxen as they race through a paddy field during a festival at Kakkoor village in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Sivaram V / Reuters
    A farmer shouts while running alongside his oxen as they race through a paddy field during a festival at Kakkoor village in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Sivaram V / Reuters
  • China’s central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan, centre, laughs as he is surrounded by journalists in Beijing. Recent fluctuations in the China’s yuan exchange rate are normal, the central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan said. Reuters
    China’s central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan, centre, laughs as he is surrounded by journalists in Beijing. Recent fluctuations in the China’s yuan exchange rate are normal, the central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan said. Reuters
  • Power lines near a residential area in Mumbai. Approximately 400 million people in India have no access to electricity in any form - urban residents have 93 per cent access and rural residents have 50 per cent access on average. Divyakant Solanki / EPA
    Power lines near a residential area in Mumbai. Approximately 400 million people in India have no access to electricity in any form - urban residents have 93 per cent access and rural residents have 50 per cent access on average. Divyakant Solanki / EPA
  • An lineman repairs overhead power cable damaged by a fire in Malabon, Philippines. According to local police, six people were killed while 100 houses were razed, affecting an estimated 200 families, after a fire hit a residential area. Erik De Castro / Reuters
    An lineman repairs overhead power cable damaged by a fire in Malabon, Philippines. According to local police, six people were killed while 100 houses were razed, affecting an estimated 200 families, after a fire hit a residential area. Erik De Castro / Reuters
  • A burqa-clad Afghan refugee woman makes a carpet at the Khorasan refugee camp near Peshawar. Some five millions Afghans driven by war, oppression and poverty have crossed the border into Pakistan and Iran in the past three decades, seeking better lives and jobs. A Majeed / AFP
    A burqa-clad Afghan refugee woman makes a carpet at the Khorasan refugee camp near Peshawar. Some five millions Afghans driven by war, oppression and poverty have crossed the border into Pakistan and Iran in the past three decades, seeking better lives and jobs. A Majeed / AFP
  • Containers are ready to be transported in Qingdao port in Qingdao, east China. China recorded an unexpected trade deficit of $22.98 billion in February, official figures showed, with authorities blaming the country’s holiday season for the weak performance. AFP
    Containers are ready to be transported in Qingdao port in Qingdao, east China. China recorded an unexpected trade deficit of $22.98 billion in February, official figures showed, with authorities blaming the country’s holiday season for the weak performance. AFP
  • Afghan labourers prepare popcorn using an improvised cooker at a factory on the outskirts of Jalalabad in Nangarhar province. Afghanistan’s economy has improved significantly since the fall of the Taliban in 2001. Noorullah Shirzada / AFP
    Afghan labourers prepare popcorn using an improvised cooker at a factory on the outskirts of Jalalabad in Nangarhar province. Afghanistan’s economy has improved significantly since the fall of the Taliban in 2001. Noorullah Shirzada / AFP
  • The coal power plant ‘Scholven’ of German utility giant E.ON in Gelsenkirchen. Ina Fassbender / Reuters
    The coal power plant ‘Scholven’ of German utility giant E.ON in Gelsenkirchen. Ina Fassbender / Reuters
  • Men sit on top of a a pile of potato sacks at wholesale market on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. Mian Khursheed / Reuters
    Men sit on top of a a pile of potato sacks at wholesale market on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. Mian Khursheed / Reuters
  • IBM workers shout slogans and hold banners as they protest at an IBM factory in Shenzhen, Guangdong province. The wildcat strike illustrates how tectonic shifts under way in the country’s labour market are emboldening workers to take matters into their own hands, raising risks for multinationals. Alex Lee / Reuters
    IBM workers shout slogans and hold banners as they protest at an IBM factory in Shenzhen, Guangdong province. The wildcat strike illustrates how tectonic shifts under way in the country’s labour market are emboldening workers to take matters into their own hands, raising risks for multinationals. Alex Lee / Reuters

Business

In pictures: Best business images of the week

Liz Claus

March 13, 2014

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In pictures: This week’s list of business images includes refugee carpet makers in Peshawar, coal energy in Germany and protests at IBM’s factory in China.

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