• An A380 Airbus prepares to land during the International Air and Space Fair at the international airport of Santiago in Chile. Ivan Alvarado / Reuters
    An A380 Airbus prepares to land during the International Air and Space Fair at the international airport of Santiago in Chile. Ivan Alvarado / Reuters
  • Workers pour melted copper in a mould to make utensils and accessories inside a workshop in Srinagar in India's Kashmir region. Danish Ismail / Reuters
    Workers pour melted copper in a mould to make utensils and accessories inside a workshop in Srinagar in India's Kashmir region. Danish Ismail / Reuters
  • Indian farmers wait at a watermelon auction at the Gaddiannaram wholesale fruit market on the outskirts of Hyderabad. Noah Seelam / AFP
    Indian farmers wait at a watermelon auction at the Gaddiannaram wholesale fruit market on the outskirts of Hyderabad. Noah Seelam / AFP
  • A farmhand loads seed barley during spring sowing on a collective farm near the village of Trunovskoye, near Russia's southern city of Stavropol. Eduard Korniyenko / Reuters
    A farmhand loads seed barley during spring sowing on a collective farm near the village of Trunovskoye, near Russia's southern city of Stavropol. Eduard Korniyenko / Reuters
  • People fish on a pier at the port of Mariupol, located on the north of the Sea of Azov in eastern Ukraine. Yannis Behrakis / Reuters
    People fish on a pier at the port of Mariupol, located on the north of the Sea of Azov in eastern Ukraine. Yannis Behrakis / Reuters
  • Train tracks at a railway junction in Frankfurt, Germany. Deutsche Bahn, Europe's biggest rail carrier, was scheduled to announce financial results for 2013 on March 27. Thomas Lohnes / Getty Images
    Train tracks at a railway junction in Frankfurt, Germany. Deutsche Bahn, Europe's biggest rail carrier, was scheduled to announce financial results for 2013 on March 27. Thomas Lohnes / Getty Images
  • A pedestrian walks past an advertisement for plastic surgery clinic at a subway station in Seoul. The South Korean capital is to restrict the use of plastic surgery adverts on public transport, officials said, after complaints that they were fuelling an unhealthy obsession with body image. Jung Yeon-Je / AFP
    A pedestrian walks past an advertisement for plastic surgery clinic at a subway station in Seoul. The South Korean capital is to restrict the use of plastic surgery adverts on public transport, officials said, after complaints that they were fuelling an unhealthy obsession with body image. Jung Yeon-Je / AFP
  • People are reflected in a mirror next to sun glasses at the central market in Chisinau, Moldova. Daniel Mihailescu / AFP
    People are reflected in a mirror next to sun glasses at the central market in Chisinau, Moldova. Daniel Mihailescu / AFP
  • An employee works at a Chinese automobile factory in Hefei, Anhui province. The odds of Beijing intervening to support the sluggish Chinese economy are narrowing following a slew of data that points to the weakest growth for China since the global financial crisis. Reuters
    An employee works at a Chinese automobile factory in Hefei, Anhui province. The odds of Beijing intervening to support the sluggish Chinese economy are narrowing following a slew of data that points to the weakest growth for China since the global financial crisis. Reuters
  • A French farmer walks behind a tractor which sows a field near Arras, northern France. Pascal Rossignol / Reuters
    A French farmer walks behind a tractor which sows a field near Arras, northern France. Pascal Rossignol / Reuters
  • A Queensland fruit fly with a 1.5-millimetre sensor attached to its back. Scientists have hit on a new way to combat one of Australia's worst pests - create a male-only line. Australian scientists at the government-run Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation are now exploring how feeding certain genes to larvae can alter the DNA so the flies grow into sterilised males whether they start out as male or female. CSIRO
    A Queensland fruit fly with a 1.5-millimetre sensor attached to its back. Scientists have hit on a new way to combat one of Australia's worst pests - create a male-only line. Australian scientists at the government-run Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation are now exploring how feeding certain genes to larvae can alter the DNA so the flies grow into sterilised males whether they start out as male or female. CSIRO

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In pictures: Business images for the week to March 26, 2014

Liz Claus

March 27, 2014

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From male-only fruit flies in Australia to spring sowing in Russia, here are some of the best business images for the week to March 26, 2014.

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