The Best Pictures Of The Week

In San Carlos, Nicaragua, photographer Daniel Pavon carries his prop to a local market, hoping to take pictures of people posing with the horse. (AP)

A street vendor prepares items to be sold in San Carlos, Nicaragua. (AP)

A camel herder poses for a photograph at the annual cattle fair in Pushkar, India. The town is a popular Hindu pilgrimage spot that is also frequented by foreign tourists, who come for its annual cattle fair and camel races. The eight-day-long fair begins Sunday. (AP)

Jesse Loghry, a freshman at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Ky., brushes up on his skateboarding skills at the university's “Time and Place - Compass and Clock” installation.  (AP)

A Vatican security guard, left, salutes a passing bishop who is holding his skull cap to prevent it from flying away in the wind, during the Pope's weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. (AP)

Muslims pray at the Jama Masjid mosque, one of India's largest, during morning prayers on Eid al-Adha in New Delhi, India. Muslims around the world celebrate Eid al-Adha, or feast of sacrifice, by slaughtering sheep and cattle in remembrance of Abraham's near-sacrifice of his son. (AP)

Muslim pilgrims cast stones at a pillar in a ritual called "Jamarat," which symbolizes the stoning of Satan, in Mina near the Saudi holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. The last stage of the annual hajj pilgrimage began on Friday. The first day of stoning also marks the start of the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha, or the Feast of the Sacrifice.  (AP)

The illuminated Tokyo Tower stands under a rain cloud in Tokyo. (AP)

A man with a rope attached to his foot lies dead in the street near a temporary hospital where cholera patients are being treated in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The man appeared to have been dragged through the street by the rope but the cause of death was unknown. A month-old cholera epidemic has killed at least 1,000 people and hospitalized thousands.  (AP)

A relative of Monitha Silney, 12, who died of cholera, mourns during her burial at the cemetery in the slum of Cite Soleil in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Thousands of people across Haiti have been hospitalized with symptoms including serious diarrhea, vomiting and fever. Hundreds have died.  (AP)

Refugees react to the effects of tear gas fired by police and UN soldiers during a protest in an area where displaced earthquake survivors live in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Following days of rioting in northern Haiti over suspicions that U.N. soldiers introduced a cholera epidemic that has killed more than 1,000 people, protesters in Haiti's capital clashed with police Thursday.  (AP)

A demonstrator runs to avoid tear gas fired by police and UN soldiers during a protest in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Following days of rioting in northern Haiti, protesters in Haiti's capital clashed with police Thursday over suspicions that U.N. soldiers introduced a cholera epidemic, lashing out at U.N. peacekeepers and the government, blocking roads and attacking foreigners' vehicles.  (AP)

Men walk by near the advertisement in Seoul, South Korea. (AP)