Basejumpers

• Army officer completes first-ever base jump in India

  This army officer intercepts and disrupts enemy communications for a living but also loves jumping off high rising buildings.Lt Colonel Satyendra Verma carried out India's first ever base jump from a 450-ft tall Pitampura TV tower building in the Capital early morning on Friday.Colonel Verma, who is a professional sky diver, has completed this feat...

• Watch: 120 base jumpers jump off KL Tower

  Hundred and twenty sky-diving enthusiasts jumped safely on Thursday from Malaysia's 421 meter high KL Towers as part of the KL Tower International Jump, a BASE-jumping event that began in 2000. BASE stands for the places such jumpers usually leap from: buildings, antennae, spans and earth.Last week, an Australian woman fell to her death in Malaysia...