Actors are suspended on a 21m vertical stage, the tallest temporary structure ever built in London’s Trafalgar Square, in a show sponsored by the Vienna Tourist Board. (Reuters)

An Afghan man working in tandoor shop takes a break in Kabul. In most Afghan villages women cook Nan-I-tandoori, oval or circle bread, the Afghani national bread in tandoors, a cylindrical clay oven. (AP)

A man dresses up as monkey god Hanuman to participate in a procession as part of the Hindu festival of the Hanuman Jayanti in Allahabad, India. (AP)

An internally displaced boy, whose family fled military operations in Bara, pushes his sibling in a wheelbarrow at Jalozai camp in Pakistan's northwest Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province. (Reuters)

Kyrgyz Interior Ministry special force soldiers march in Bishkek’s central Ala-Too Square during the Trooping the Color ceremony as a part of preparation for the upcoming presidential elections to be held October 30. (AFP)

Policemen garland and apply vermillion on the foreheads of their dogs during the Tihar festival, also known as Diwali, in Katmandu, Nepal. Dogs are worshipped to acknowledge their role in providing security as part of festival rituals. (AP)

Buddhist monks pray behind bags of food donated by the government at a flooded area in Bangkok. Thailand announced a five-day holiday on Tuesday to give people the chance to escape floods closing in on the city. (Reuters)

Prospective customers shop for gifts and decorative items ahead of the Hindu festival of Diwali - The Festival of Lights - at a busy market place in New Delhi, India. (AFP)