California wildfires, tightrope record, frisbee dog

Swiss tightrope walker Freddy Nock balances on a 3,264-foot-long cable car ropeway, the panoramic Alps behind him, on top of Germany's highest mountain, Zugspitze, on Sunday. The cable is normally used for an aerial tram near Germany's Austrian border. "I made it, I'm happy, wow!" said the 44-year-old after it was all over. The tram station is at an altitude of over 9655 feet (over 1.8 miles), setting a world record for the highest tightrope walk. Nock's challenge was not just horizontal, but vertical as well. With the cable strung at a 56 percent incline, he increased his altitude by more than 1141 feet during the 50-minute journey. At times he was as much as 426 feet above ground. He used no safety gear as more than 1,800 spectators watched. Through the event, over 13,000 euros in donations were raised for the charity "Menschen fuer Menschen," which runs rural development projects in Ethiopia. (Photo by Alexandra Beier/Bongarts/Getty Images)

A participant of the fashion show throws a ball during the Mudflat Olympic Games on Sunday in Brunsbuttel, Germany. (Photo by Krafft Angerer/Bongarts/Getty Images)

Horsemen holding spears ride during the first running of the bulls in the village of Cuellar, Spain on Sunday. Cuellar's running of the bulls is considered as the oldest in Spain dating back to the late fifteenth century. (AP Photo /Daniel Ochoa de Olza)

Los Angeles County fire fighters Kevin Klar (R) Eric Tucker (C) and home owner Henrik Hairapetian, who stayed behind to protect his home, are illuminated by the glow of the Station Fire as it scorches a hillside on Bristow Drive in the La Canada Flintridge foothills on Saturday above Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

A Los Angeles County firefighter clears brush away from a propane tank near a home as the Station Fire burns through the Angeles National Forest on Sunday in Acton, California. The out of control Station Fire has burned more than 35,000 acres and is burning towards homes from Pasadena to the Antelope Valley. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

A girl in a costume looks on during the procession of the Notting Hill Carnival Children's Day in London on Sunday. The Notting Hill Carnival is held annually, bringing the sounds, costumes and smells of Caribbean to west London. (AP Photo/Akira Suemori)

Journalists walk past campaign posters of the Democratic Party of Japan, displayed on the wall of Japan's main opposition party's center, to observe the ballot counting of the parliamentary elections in Tokyo on Sunday. Japan voted Sunday in the elections for the 480-seat lower house of parliament. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Eighty-two-year-old Glicerio Yap, center, is helped by family members as he makes his way to view the tomb of his son at the Philippine Heroes Cemetery in suburban Taguig, south of Manila, Philippines on Sunday. The Philippines commemorates National Heroes Day on Monday. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Marco Pedrotti from Italy talks to his dog Yuki during the Butch Cassidy Cup 2009, the German dog frisbee German championship, on Saturday in Karlsruhe, Germany. The judges grade the sportiness, security and acrobatics of the performance. (Photo by Miguel Villagran/Getty Images)

Jordanian school boys use their books to shade themselves from the sun on the first day at school in Amman, Jordan on Sunday. (AP Photo/Nader Daoud)

Ceremonial horsemen ride on the first stretch of road, after Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi attended a ceremony to lay the first stone of a new Italian-funded highway, in Tuweisha, Libya on Sunday. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Pakistani firefighters battle with a fire, after an explosion, in Chaman, a Pakistani town along the Afghan border on Sunday. An explosion ripped through a line of trucks ferrying fuel to NATO troops in Afghanistan, setting several oil tankers ablaze Sunday at a backed-up Pakistani border crossing, police said. (AP Photo/Shah Khalid)