Vietnam
A client whose face is covered with gold leaves is seen at the Viet My beauty salon in Hanoi.
Kham/Reuters
Source: TIME
Macedonia
Revelers participate at a Trimery celebration in the city of Strumica.
Ognen Teofilovski/Reuters
Source: TIME
India
Rajni, a severely malnourished 2-year-old girl, is weighed by health workers at the Nutritional Rehabilitation Center of Shivpuri district in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, Feb. 1. India has failed to reduce its high prevalence of child malnutrition despite its economy doubling between 1990 and 2005 to become Asia’s third largest. A recent government-supported survey said 42 percent of children under age 5 are underweight - almost double that of sub-Saharan Africa - compared to 43 percent five years ago. The statistic - which means 3,000 children are dying daily due to illnesses related to poor diets - prompted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to admit that malnutrition was “a national shame” and was putting the health of the nation in jeopardy.
HELP
Adnan Abidi/Reuters
Source: MSNBC
An instructor from a company that trains security guards smashes a bottle over a recruit’s head during a training session for China’s first female bodyguards in Beijing.
Source: LIFE
Liberia, Africa
Esther Ba looks through a window of the abandoned building where she lives with her daughter and more than a dozen other people in Monrovia, Liberia, on Nov. 9. A disputed election underscores recent political tension. Critics of incumbent and recent Nobel Peace Prize winner Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Africa’s first freely elected female head of state, say progress in her first term was too slow and that much of the population lives in poverty.
Finbarr O’Reilly / Reuters
Source: MSNBC
China
Children stretch during a ballet lesson at a dancing school in Hefei, Anhui province, China.
Jianan Yu—Reuters
Source: TIME
