Images Dated 19th October 2012

Brazil, Amazon, Acre state, Xapuri, Reserva Extrativista Chico Mendes, Rubber tapper

Brazil, Amazon, Acre state, Xapuri, Reserva Extrativista Chico Mendes, Rubber tapper standing in the door to the kitchen at the ecotourism resort and jungle lodge of Seringal Cachoeira in the Amazon tropical forest

© Alex Robinson/ AWL Images Ltd

A Sultry Beauty, 1883 (oil on canvas)

827119 A Sultry Beauty, 1883 (oil on canvas) by Courtois, Gustave Claude Etienne (1853-1924); 39.4x33 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: A Sultry Beauty. Gustave Claude Etienne Courtois (1853-1924). Oil on canvas. Painted in 1883. 39.4 x 33cm.); Photo A© Christie's Images; French, out of copyright

© © Christie's Images / Bridgeman Images

HMS Bulwark

HMS Bulwark is the Flagship of the Royal Navy and the nation. She led the Navy's key deployment, Cougar 2012, to the Mediterranean and returned to British shores at the end of November 2012. Summer 2012 saw her as one of the guardians of the Games, stationed off Weymouth ensuring the Olympic sailing events are safe for all.
HMS Bulwark was taking part in Cougar, a three month deployment to the Mediterranean as part of the United Kingdom's Response Force Task Group, exercising with key allies. Exercises included Corsican Lion, which tested the maritime element of the UK-French Combined Joined Expeditionary Force (CJEF), and exercise Albanian Lion which provided superb faculties for the Lead Commando Group to train with Albanian forces, consolidating our relationship