Young gymnasts take part in a training session for 4-to7-year-olds at the gymnastics hall of a sports school in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, China, on Tuesday. Chinese officials insist tough new eligibility rules will put a stop to the type of age-cheating scandals that saw a gymnast stripped of her Olympic medal. Reuters
Kurdish Peshmerga cadets exercise during a 28-day course at an Iraqi military base in Kirkuk on Tuesday. The Iraqi Army is training more than 100 cadets of Peshmerga, the armed forces of Iraqi Kurdistan. Thaier al-Sudani/Reuters
Three adolescent Magellanic penguins at the San Francisco Zoo in California pause before diving to their new home on Penguin Island on Tuesday Born earlier this year, the young chicks have been attending fish school, where they have learned to accept fish from humans. They are now ready to join the largest and most successful colony of Magellanic penguins in a zoo or aquarium environment. These three youngsters bring the Zoo's total Magellanic penguin colony to 44 birds. Ben Margot/AP
Muslims attend evening prayers called "Tarawih" to mark the start of the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan at a mosque in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia, on Tuesday. Sigit Pamungkas/Reuters
Former President George W. Bush visits R. Perry Import-Export, an exporter of Haitian mangoes, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, during a check up on quake relief efforts on Tuesday. Republican Bush and his Democratic predecessor, Bill Clinton, have teamed up to help raise money for victims of the Jan. 12 earthquake. Allison Shelley/Reuters
On Tuesday, US actress and producer Whoopi Goldberg (r.) performs during a dress rehearsal, as she joins the cast of Sister Act. Goldberg will appear in the show for a limited three-week run starting Aug. 10. She'll be playing the role of Mother Superior, following in the footsteps of Maggie Smith and Sheila Hancock, at the London Palladium Theatre. Joel Ryan/AP
A masked Kashmiri Muslim protester shouts pro-freedom slogans during a protest rally at Khanmoh, India, on Tuesday. Thousands of Kashmiri Muslims protested against Indian rule in the Himalayan region of Kashmir and offered special prayers for nearly 50 people who died in last two months of civil unrest. Dar Yasin/AP
A snow leopard cub investigates a camera lens at the Oklahoma City Zoo in Oklahoma City. Sue Ogrocki/AP
Boston Celtics newly signed basketball player Shaquille O'Neal talks with the media at a news conference on Tuesday in Waltham, Mass. Greg M. Cooper/AP
A spider perches on a dewy web in the village of Slobodka, Belarus, early Tuesday. Sergei Grits/AP
Inspectors look over the 27 tanker and hopper cars of the freight train that derailed in eastern New Orleans, La., on Monday. No one was injured and the cause of the accident is being investigated. Ted Jackson/The Times-Picayune/AP
A helicopter carries water before releasing it over a forest fire near the settlement of Kustarevka in the Ryazan region of Russia, on Tuesday. Russia's deadly summer heat wave will weaken a recovery from last year's slump, economists predicted on Tuesday as wildfires raged on in several provinces and forecasters said sweltering weather won't abate this week. Denis Sinyakov/Reuters
A fisherman looks out from his house as water splashes by during a high tide in Mumbai, India, on Tuesday. Rafiq Maqbool/AP
North Koreans are seen on the banks of the swelling Yalu River on a hazy day near the North Korean town of Sinuiju, on Tuesday. Jacky Chen/Reuters
A man walks with his dogs on an oil-stained lane near the Arabian Sea shore in Mumbai, India, on Tuesday. The oil spill from a damaged container ship that collided with another vessel in the Arabian sea had stopped after coast guard officials managed to plug the leak in its fuel tank, a top government official said. Rafiq Maqbool/AP
Russian Alexander Sukhorukov (r.) and Ross Davenport of Britain swim a men's 200m freestyle heat at the European swimming championships in Budapest, Hungary, on Tuesday. Domenico Stinellis/AP
Riot police advanced on protesters in Istanbul's Taksim Square shortly after Prime Minister Erdogan warned the peaceful demonstrators to clear out or be forcibly removed.
Riot police fired water cannons and tear gas on protesters in Istanbul's Taksim Square and neighboring Gezi Park on Saturday, an intervention that came shortly after the prime minister warned that security forces "know how to clear" the area.
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