Tuesday: The day in photos

Japanese junior high school students wear masks as a precaution against swine flu during a school tour at the upper house of the Parliament in Tokyo. Japan confirmed dozens more swine flu cases overnight, bringing its tally to 176, health officials said Tuesday, as the government considered scaling down quarantine checks at airports while focusing on its domestic outbreak.  (Itsuo Inouye / Associated Press)

Keeper Petra Schroeder takes one of the triplet jaguar cubs out of a basket for weighing, at the Tierpark Zoo in Berlin. The three cubs were born on April 16 and named Atiero, Jumanes and Valdivia.  (Gero Breloer / Associated Press)

Sikh women, who fled their homes in Pakistan’s troubled northwest, leave a hall after eating lunch at a Sikh Temple at Hasanabdal, near Islamabad, Pakistan. More than 300 Sikhs from Buner and Swat in Pakistan’s northwest have sought shelter at the temple since fighting broke out between Pakistan’s army and Taliban militants in April.  (Greg Baker / Associated Press)

Felipe Schwartz, 23, a tourist from Venezuela and an amateur acrobat, walks on a rope next to the beach in Tel Aviv, Israel.  (Ariel Schalit / Associated Press)

Belarus special forces soldiers demonstrate the ability to break concrete slates with their foreheads at the opening of the fifth international exhibition of arms and military hardware, the “Milex-2009,” in Minsk. More than 100 enterprises and firms from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine and other countries displayed their products at the exhibition, which began Tuesday.  (Sergei Grits / Associated Press)

Refugees from fighting in the Swat Valley crowd on top of trucks and buses as they wait at Bela Pass on the edge of Ambela, one of the first villages inside Buner district, Pakistan. The army assault on stubborn Taliban positions in Buner shattered the hope of nearly 500 refugees, who waited for hours in scorching temperatures to return to their homes after the government and army said the area had been cleared of militants.  (Emilio Morenatti / Associated Press)

Tamil protesters demonstrate outside parliament in central London. Members of Britain’s large Tamil community were defiant Tuesday after their dream of an independent homeland appeared to be crushed. “I am incredibly sad today and angry, but I know we will have our own land one day. We just cannot ever live with the Sinalhese,” said Nada Balasubramaniam, 67, referring to Sri Lanka’s majority population.  (Ben Stansall / AFP / Getty Images)

A woman walks along a 42-foot-long plank, called “Heaven’s Bridge,” that stretches between the two towers of Bremen’s cathedral in northern Germany. The bridge, which is 213 feet above the street, was erected to celebrate a Christian festival that opens Wednesday and ends Sunday. Members of the public can walk along Heaven’s Bridge as long as they register to do so and are wearing safety gear.  (Nigel Treblin / AFP / Getty Images)

A woman looks at the Kelch Chanticleer Faberge egg at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow. The museum is hosting an exhibition of the rare and extremely expensive Faberge eggs.  (Alexey Sazovov / AFP / Getty Images)