People walk under strong winds and rains from Typhoon Violet in downtown Tokyo, Japan. (AP)

Indian villagers evacuated by helicopter from Chungthang in Mangan, India. Soldiers in northeastern India cleared a path Wednesday to a hydroelectric project where many were confirmed killed by landslides in a powerful Himalayan earthquake. (AP)

Traffic heading into the Bahraini capital of Manama along a highway running through ancient burial mounds near Aali. Traffic has been slowed to a crawl on many Bahrain highways after calls by pro-reform groups to flood the roads with slow-moving cars in a show of strength before parliamentary elections later this week. (AP)

A journalist tends to a Palestinian youth who was hit in the face with a tear gas canister fired by Israeli security forces during clashes that erupted between Israeli troops and Palestinian stone-throwers at Qalandiya checkpoint, West Bank. (Reuters)

A steward sits on a seat at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany, during preparations for the Pope Benedict XVI’s visit. (AP)

Armenian Orthodox clergy walk during a military parade marking the 20th anniversary of Armenia’s Independence Day in Yerevan. (AP)

Wind turbines on the Tararua mountain range on the outskirts of the town of Palmerston North, New Zealand. (Reuters)

A man transports used empty plastic containers on a horse cart to a junkyard in Panchkula in the northern Indian state of Haryana. (Reuters)

A plastinated human body with an electric guitar is seen during the exhibition ‘Body Worlds’ by Gunther von Hagen in Rome, Italy. Von Hagen is a German anatomist who invented plastination, the method of preserving biological tissue specimens. (Reuters)

Artists from the Chinese acrobatics team from Yunnan province perform during a cultural show organized by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations in New Delhi, India, September 20, 2011. (Reuters)