Pictures of the Day: Friday, Aug. 31, 2012

Posted Aug. 31, 2012, at 11:08 p.m.

Zeth Lundy (second from left), co-owner of Central Street Farmhouse in Bangor, was the winner of the iPad from the Bangor Daily News. Over 600 people entered during the American Folk Festival to win the device. Pictured with Lundy representing the Bangor Daily News are Aimee Thibodeau (left), Shelley Sund (right) and Towle Tompkins. Buy Photo

Mohammad Sajjad | AP

Hospital staff treat a boy injured in a bomb blast, at a local hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan on Friday, Aug. 31, 2012. A powerful car bomb ripped through a market in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing many people, police said.

Tony Gutierrez | AP

President Barack Obama speaks to troops, service-members and military families at the 1st Aviation Support Battalion Hangar at Fort Bliss Friday, Aug. 31, 2012, in El Paso, Texas.

Nariman El-Mofty | AP

An Egyptian boy carries a child in Wadi El-Rayan, southwest of Fayoum, 60 miles south of Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Aug. 31, 2012. Wadi El-Rayan, is a protected area famous for its waterfalls and is home to many historically significant sites including, Roman and Pharonic ruins and a valley with fossilized whale bones.

Ariana Cubillos | AP

Contestants perform during the Miss Venezuela 2012 beauty contest in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012.

Vahid Salemi | AP

Syria's prime minister, Wael Nader al-Halqi (left) talks with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (right) during their meeting on the sideline of the Nonaligned Movement summit in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Aug. 31, 2012. An unidentified interpreter sits at center.

Eraldo Peres | AP

Catarina, a jaguar, drinks water at the NEX sanctuary for endangered Brazilian felines in Corumba, some 80 km north of Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012. NEX no extinction, a nongovernmental organization, defends and preserves the wild cats at their conservation refuge that currently houses some 26 big cats, including pumas, ocelots and jaguarundi.