Fortnight in pictures: (December 1 – December22)

A TV technician talks with his newsroom about the signal strength a device is transmitting from the news conference room on the 39th floor of the Toshiba head office in Tokyo, Japan on December 21. Japan’s Toshiba Corporation said it will cut nearly 7,000 consumer electronics jobs after a $1.3-billion accounting scandal, in an overhaul that will streamline the sprawling conglomerate into a company focussed on chips and nuclear energy