Today's best photos: from a freeride snowboarder to a boxing class record attempt

'The National' picks the most striking images from around the world

Swiss freeride snowboarder, base jumper and wingsuit pilot Geraldine Fasnacht prepares to jump out of SolarStratos, a solar powered aircraft prototype, flown by Swiss adventurer Raphael Domjan to perform the first ever wingsuit jump from and electrical and solar airplpane, above the alpine resort of Verbier, Switzerland, Saturday, June 18, 2022. (Valentin Flauraud / Keystone via AP)

A displaced Syrian child plays with her doll inside the damaged building where she is living in Syria's northern city of Raqa. AFP

Monks and nuns sit in prayer and contemplation at Deir Mar Moussa Al-Habashi (St Moses the Ethiopian monastery), one of Syria's ancient monasteries near Damascus. The monastery has reopened to visitors after more than a decade of war and isolation. AFP

A boy cools off in the Shatt Al-Arab waterway, formed at the confluence of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, in Iraq's southern city of Basra. AFP

An aerial view shows Syrians gathering on the shores of the Euphrates River in the northern city of Raqa. AFP

A boy jumping from a diving tower on the shore of lake Ammersee in southern Germany as the temperature reached around 30°C. AFP

Firefighters battle a wildfire in Pumarejo de Tera near Zamora in northern Spain. Firefighters continue to fight multiple fires in Spain on the last day of an extreme heat wave. AFP

A girl carries her brother as she wades through a flooded road after heavy rains, on the outskirts of Agartala, India. Reuters

Festival-goers attend Spanish singer Morad's live show at the Sonar Festival in Barcelona. AFP

Philadelphia firefighter Lt Sean Williamson, who was killed in an early morning building collapse, is received by his fellow firefighters as police and others stand by. AP

Labourers work at a clay pottery workshop on the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan. EPA

People attend a massive boxing class and try to set a new Guinness World Record for people taking a class at the same time for 30 minutes, in Mexico City. Reuters

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Updated: June 19, 2022, 12:47 PM