Thursday: The day in photos
A so-called base flyer, left, and a base jumper descend from the roof of the Park Inn Hotel in Berlin, the city’s tallest. The new, base-flying attraction allows adventurous participants, after being strapped into a harness that’s attached to a cable and winch, to step off a platform and experience near-free-fall speeds in a controlled descent down the face of the building before brakes bring the ride to a stop just before the rider reaches the ground. The hotel also has launch platforms for base jumpers, who ride parachutes to terra firma rather than wires. (Rainer Jensen / EPA)
Discarded doors provide colorful decoration for a building undergoing remodeling in downtown Seoul, South Korea. (Kim Jae-Hwan / AFP/Getty Images)
London’s venerable telephone boxes, just like phone booths in the U.S., are becoming mere historical relics with the rise of cellphones. (Dan Kitwood / Getty Images)
A nun holding a rosary and a picture of a saint attends Mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI on Mount Precipice in northern Israel, just outside the city of Nazareth, the boyhood town of Jesus. (Menahem Kahana / AFP/Getty Images)
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The cuffed hands of Thomas Cholmondeley, the scion of Kenya’s most prominent family of white settlers, who was sentenced in Nairobi to eight months in prison for killing a black poacher on his ranch in 2006. Cholmondeley was convicted of manslaughter in the death of Robert Njoya. Cholmondeley has admitted to shooting only dogs on his Rift Valley ranch. (Roberto Schmidt / AFP/Getty Images)
Cpl. Daniel Evans commands his mount, Beatrice, to get to her feet during drills in Hyde Park in London. The Household Cavalry was rehearsing for the Trooping of the Color for Queen Elizabeth’s birthday celebrations June 14. (Andy Rain / EPA)
Moto GP rider Valentino Rossi of Italy burns rubber next to the Eiffel Tower after a parade in Paris ahead of the Motorcycling Grand Prix in Le Mans on Sunday. (Christophe Ena / Associated Press)
A sign in Brussels promotes upcoming elections in which members of the European Parliament will be selected. (Olivier Hoslet / EPA)
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Japanese computer giant Fujitsu runveils its Venus computer chip, billed as the world’s fastest, able to perform 128 billion calculations per second, in Tokyo. (Yoshikazu Tsuno / AFP/Getty Images)
