A base jumper leaps from a alpine cliff in the Lauterbrunnen valley in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland
A Chinese performer soars through the air as he slams a basketball into the basket during a show at half-time during the final of the Asian Basketball Championships between China and Iran in Tianjin
lvaro Bautista of Spain and Mapfre Aspar Team crashes out while attempting a wheelie after finishing the 250cc race in third place in the MotoGP World Championship Grand Prix of Czech Republic in Brno, Czech Republic
Great Britain's Katy Livingston falls over a fence after her horse refuses to jump, during the Modern Pentathlon World Championships, in London
Spanish bullfighter Manuel Diaz, or 'El Cordobes', is gored by a bull during the Begona Fair bullfight held at El Bibio bullring in Gijon, northern Spain
Tengger tribesmen perform cane fighting during a celebration of Indonesia's 64th anniversary of independence at the caldera of Mount Bromo, in Probolinggo, East Java, Indonesia
Hindu devotee gets his mouth pierced as he takes part in an annual religious procession called Shitla Mata in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh
Runners stream through Times Square during the New York City Half Marathon in New York
British athletics fans cheer on their teams during day two of the 12th IAAF World Athletics Championships at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany
Sculptor Jason Peters was commissioned by the Times Square Alliance to create a temporary piece of art with old plastic beach chairs that will be replaced with 400 new ****l chairs. The sculpture lines the Broadway pedestrian plaza between 42nd and 47th S
A group of Indonesian Marine Police gesture in the waters off Manado, in North Sulawesi
Engineers of the Korea Aerospace Research Institute wheel the Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1, South Korea's first space rocket, to its launch pad from the assembly complex at the Naro Space Center in Goheung, South Korea
Smoke goes up from a burning fireworks depot in the suburb of Donetsk, Ukraine
A man works at a steel plant in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, China
A Cambodian farmer works in the early morning on her rice paddy, in the outskirts of Phnom Penh
A woman pushes a baby pram while walking along a dirt road at dusk in Iqaluit, Nunavut on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic
A landslide in a tea plantation, following Typhoon Morakot, in Alishan Township in Chiayi county, southern Taiwan
People play in a fountain in Boston as temperatures reach 90 degrees
The son of a female Afghan prisoner stands in a corridor of a prison in Herat, western Afghanistan
A Pakistani border guard examines Afghanistan-bound NATO tankers after an attack in Yaro, Pakistan
A Pakistani man looks at the remains of a smouldering passenger bus, torched by an angry mob after the killing of Islamic religious leader Allamma Ali Sher Haideri, in Karachi
A street performer on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival