Dancers perform during a dress rehearsal of Paper Windmill Fantasia in Taipei, Taiwan, before setting out for performances in Beijing, China. (AP)

An Afghan man grinds wheat at a traditional mill in Nahr-e Shahi district of Balkh province. Poverty and an ongoing insurgency by the ousted Taliban still pose a threat to the stability of the country. (AFP)

Burma’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi receives a gift from Foreign minister of Czech Republic Karel Schwarzenberg during their meeting at Thingaha hotel in Naypyitaw, Burma. The visiting foreign minister handed over the posthumous gift from the late Vaclav Have to fellow Nobel peace laureate. (AP)

Soldiers perform during a medal ceremony for graduates at the Egyptian Military Academy in Cairo. (Reuters)

Participants throw water at one another during a promotional event for water festival in Seoul, South Korea. The event was held as a part of local county office’s promotion to encourage people to spend for summer vacation at their county. (AP)

Two Grey Crowned cranes look at each other in their enclosure at the Berlin Zoo in Berlin, Germany. (AP)

Smoke from a wildfire over the town of Tijoco Bajo, on the Spanish Canary island of Tenerife (AFP)

A man poses for a photograph near a 3D painting at the 2012 Magic Art Special Exhibition in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, July 16, 2012. (Reuters)