In pictures: Best business images for the week to April 24, 2014

A farmer ploughs the land with his donkeys on the outskirts of the Yemeni capital, Sanaa. A diesel shortage has inflicted heavy losses on farmers needing fuel to generate irrigation pumps on their lands, according to local media. (Mohamed al-Sayaghi / Reuters / April 18, 2014)

On a farm in Bozhou, central China, a man controls a drone to spray pesticides. China's economy expanded 7.4 per cent year-on-year in the first three months of the year, marking a further slowing in the world's second-largest economy. (AFP / April 15, 2014)

An Afghan day labourer pushes his wheelbarrow at a traditional factory on the outskirts of Jalalabad in Nangarhar province (Noorullah Shirzada/ AFP / April 17, 2014)

A cleaner mops the floor at the new luxury penthouse development One Hyde Park in the Knightsbridge area of London. The capital continues to see growth and house price inflation is rising at a much faster rate that the rest of the United Kingdom. (Peter Macdiarmid / Getty Images / April 16, 2014)

Depth in Venice: the cruise ship MSC Preziosa navigates in the Canale della Giudecca, in Venice, Italy. Media reports say that cruise ships with more than 96,000 tonnes will be banned from entering parts of the Venice lagoon from November 30, 2014. (Andrea Merola / EPA / April 19, 2014)

Tough job: labourers toil at a steel plant at Herat Industrial Park in the Gozara district of Herat province, Afghanistan. Afghanistan depends on most neighboring countries like Russia, Iran and Pakistan to import steel for its infrastructure but the recently opened factory provides an opportunity for local production. (Jalil Rezayee / EPA / April 21, 2014)

Letting off steam: workers at Pertamina Geothermal Energi rotate a valve during a production test at Karaha geothermal well in Tasikmalaya, in Indonesia's West Java province. The Karaha Geothermal Power Plant is scheduled to supply power at the end of 2016. (Beawiharta / Reuters / April 19, 2014)

Afghanistan is this week's clear front-runner for best business pictures: here, labourers work at a construction site during sunset in Mazar-i-Sharif. (Farshad Usyan / AFP / April 22, 2014)

Open road: the Ford Motor executive chairman, Bill Ford, sits with the Empire State Realty Trust chairman, Anthony Malkin, in a 2015 Mustang on the observation deck at the Empire State Building in honour of 50 years of Mustang on April 16, 2014. The car was on display for two days for the kick-off of the New York International Auto Show. Spencer Platt / Getty Images / AFP

A man looks at posters on a giant advertising board showing information on second-hand apartments at a real estate exhibition in Shenyang, Liaoning province. China's real estate investment rose 16.8 per cent in the first three months of 2014 from a year earlier, and revenues from property sales dropped an annual 5.2 percent, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Wednesday. (Reuters / April 17, 2014)

Like a mouse in a maze, a woman walks on an overpass inside a building in Tokyo's business district. Confidence at Japanese manufacturers grew in April for the first time in three months, and a more moderate dip is seen over the next three months, a Reuters poll showed. (Yuya Shino / Reuters / April 17, 2014)

Here are some of the best business images for the week to April 24, 2014.