A man passes the defaced facade of the Bank of Greece after a night of violence which followed the Greek parliament approval of a deeply unpopular austerity bill in Athens. Police said 150 shops were looted in the capital and 48 buildings set ablaze. – Reuters Photo

Blacksmith Dora Kolchina works in her shop in the Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. Dora, 29, is the only female blacksmith in the region. – Reuters Photo

Police stand amongst tomatoes which were thrown by protesters from Spain's farmers union COAG at the Madrid delegation of the European Parliament during a protest. Protesters were calling on the EU to stop the ratification of a commercial agricultural agreement with Morocco, according to COAG. According to COAG, the agreement is harmful to farmers and consumers in Europe, as well as to the environment in Morocco. – Reuters Photo

Thousands of Love Hearts sweets wait to be sorted and packaged on the production line at the Swizzels-Matlow factory in New Mills, northern England. The sweets were first produced in 1954 as novelty gifts in Christmas crackers and now feature over 200 different messages. – Reuters Photo

A worker touches the hand of an inflatable sex doll during a test process at Ningbo Yamei plastic toy factory, on the outskirts of Fenghua, Zhejiang province. The company started producing sex dolls three years ago, and now owns a total of 13 types of dolls at the average price of 100 RMB (16 USD). More than 50,000 sex dolls were sold last year, about fifteen percent of which were exported to Japan, Korea and Turkey, according to the company. – Reuters Photo

A visitor tries on an Aviation Night Vision Imaging System/Heads Up Display (ANVIS/HUD) at the Elbit Systems booth at the Singapore Airshow in Singapore. – Reuters Photo

Toy demonstrators Trevor Zhou and Aubree Marchione (R) use an iPad to play "The Game of Life zAPPed" at Hasbro's American International Toy Fair showroom in New York. Having found this holiday season that they cannot beat iPad, iPhone and iPod, toymakers have decided to join them, lining up a host of playthings that come to life when hooked up to the devices. – Reuters Photo

Farmer U Thant Lwin stands on the site of his old paddy field, which has been ripped apart to make way for a gas pipeline to China, near the northeastern town of Pyin Oo Lwin, Myammar. – Reuters Photo

Alda Silva does the bookkeeping of her food store in Lisbon. Small firms with fewer than fifty workers make up more than 99 percent of Portugal's businesses and they're collapsing at an alarming rate. The debt-crippled eurozone country is choking amid grinding austerity measures enacted in return for a 78 billion euro ($103 billion) bailout, a steep recession, an acute shortage of cash, and record unemployment. – AP Photo