One of our clients asked us to remove that blue globe icon which displays languages from the top menu as they had language icons in the template. This was the modification we had to do to remove the globe icon from top menu:
Open:
templates/base/scripts/BxBaseMenu.php file
change:
$aFunctions = array('genMoreLanguagesElement', 'genMoreTemplatesElement', 'genSearchElement');
To
//$aFunctions = array('genMoreTemplatesElement', 'genSearchElement');
Hope it helps someone someday :)