New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez connects for his 600th career home run during the first inning of a baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays at Yankee Stadium on Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010, in New York.
An Israeli soldier, covered with a prayer shawl, prays near the site of an exchange of fire between Israeli and Lebanese troops along the border between Israel and Lebanon, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010. Lebanese and Israeli troops exchanged fire Tuesday in a fierce border battle that killed a senior Israeli officer, two Lebanese soldiers and a journalist underlining how easily tensions can re-ignite along the frontier where Israel and Hezbollah fought a war four years ago.
Images of dancers are reflected in a mirror during a rehearsal of the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre's "Whisper of Flowers," led by Taiwanese choreographer Lin Hwai-min, in Hong Kong Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010. Inspired by Anton Chekhov's "Cherry Orchard," "Whisper of Flowers" abandons the characters and plot of the original play, and instead explores the enduring theme of exuberance giving way to precarious darkness.
A masked man walks in the thick smoke as he walks past homes destroyed in a fire, in Peredeltsy, southeast of Moscow, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010. Russia is suffering through its worst heat wave on record, a condition that has sparked forest and peat fires across its central and western regions that have killed at least 48 people in the past week.
Houston Texans rookie wide receiver Trindon Holliday (16) is pushed on a tricycle by veteran wide receiver Jacoby Jones, top, after a NFL football training camp practice Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010 in Houston.
Pope Benedict XVI, center, flanked by bishop Martin Gachter waves during his weekly general audience, in St Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010. About 50,000 altar boys and altar girls coming from 17 countries gathered Wednesday in St. Peter Square at the Vatican to attend the audience. At left is a bronze statue representing St. Tarcisio, patron of the altar boys and altar girls.
Laura Dekker waves to the media as she stands on her boat in Den Osse, Netherlands, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010. The 14-year-old, who hopes to become the youngest person to sail around the world by herself, and her father, Dick Dekker, have departed the harbor of Den Osse in her 38-foot yacht Guppy, bound for Portugal where she hopes to begin her solo attempt later this year.
Kenyans wait in long line up to cast their votes during the referendum for Kenya constitution in the Kibera slum, Nairobi, Kenya, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010. Long lines formed in the capital before sunrise Wednesday to vote on a new constitution that would reduce the powers of the presidency and give citizens a bill of rights.
A colorful lorikeet peers out of its birdhouse at the Oregon Zoo in Portland, Ore., Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2010.