Trampoline

Another incident of injury, this time without casualties, took place at an amusement park in Oropos, where a six-year-old child was injured on a trampoline.

Local, European and USA acrobats showed off their slum dunking skills as Ljubljana hosted the 5th Acrobatic Basketball World Cup and Olympic trampoline competition on 7 August. Two members of Slovenia's Dunking Devils set a Guinness world record in the highest mini trampoline slum dunk.

Trampolines and trapezes are out on the asphalt in Montreal, with colorful acrobats twirling near skyscrapers in breathtaking feats.

Spellbound crowds are a July tradition with hundreds of free shows going on in the heart of the Canadian city, which sees itself as a world capital of razzle-dazzle acrobatics.

At least 64 people have died in a fire that tore through a shopping and entertainment complex in the Siberian coal-mining city of Kemerovo.

Many of the victims are children, Russian officials say, with 10 people still listed as missing.

The blaze started on an upper floor of the Winter Cherry complex while many of the victims were at the cinema.