[www.keralites.net] A look at the most striking images from across the globe over the last week.

 

A look at the most striking images from across the globe over the last week.

 

An instructor from the Tianjiao Special Guard/Security Consultant Ltd. Co, smashes a bottle over a female recruit's head during a training session for 

China's first female bodyguards in Beijing 13 January 2012. According to the company, the training session consists of 20 women,

 mostly college graduates, who will undergo 8-10 months of training to develop sufficient skills to become security guards. 

The company will then offer the best trainee a chance to attend the International Security Academy in Israel. 

An investor in Bangladesh protests against government failure in controlling the capital market, 

demanding a suspension of trading until the capital market stabilises.

 

Lightning hits a building and lights up the sky over Jakarta, Indonesia.

 

Firefighters rescue a family from a car dangling over a bridge after a fiery crash on Highway 101, California, US. 

 

A staff member of the Penglai Ocean and Polar Region World, Shandong Province, China, takes care of a polar bear cub. 

 

Students make their way across a damaged suspension bridge to go to their school on the other side of Ciberang river in Lebak,

 Banten province, Indonesia, 19 Jan 2012. The bridge was badly damaged after it was hit by a flood last week. 

 

A cock fight takes place during the annual Jonbeel festival in Jagiroad about 75 kilometers (46 miles) east of Gauhati, India, 20 January 2012. 

 

Costa Concordia cruiser runs aground off the coast of Isola del Giglio, Italy. 

 

A satellite image of the Costa Concordia wreck. 

A man cleans foam from his body after taking a bath in the polluted waters of river Yamuna on a cold winter morning in New Delhi

 January 19, 2012. Temperature in New Delhi dipped to 6 degrees Celsius (42.8 degrees Fahrenheit),

 local media reported. REUTERS/Parivartan Sharma (INDIA - Tags: ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY) 

 

People view lanterns during the 44th Chengdu panda lantern fair in Chengdu in southwest China's Sichuan province 

on January 19, 2012. January 23 marks the traditional Chinese new year. 

 

The world's largest videogame controller, created by British engineering student Ben Allen. The fully functional joypad is 30 times 

the size of a standard NES controller, measuring 12ft x 5ft 3in x 1ft 8in. The controller celebrates the launch of the 

new Guinness World Records 2012 Gamer's Edition book. 

 

Icicles hanging from tree branches in Modesto California, 17 January 2012

 

Cadbury Dairy Milk celebrate one million Facebook fans by creating a giant 'Like' thumb out of choclate 

 

Occupy London protesters, with John Cooper QC, blue tie, and barrister Michael Paget, pink tie, at the High Court following news

 that the City of London Corporation has won its High Court bid to evict anti-capitalist protesters from outside St Paul's Cathedral. 

 

Elite British security teams take to the River Thames as part of a massive security rehearsal to foil terror disaster at the Olympics. 

 

Wikipedia blacked out its Web pages on 18 January as part of a global protest against anti-piracy legislation making its way through Congress. 

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