On new years eve Rally car champion and action sports icon Travis Pastrana soars 82 meters to break World Record for longest distance jump in a Rally Car. 75.000 spectators watched that stunt in Long Beach.

WESTENDORF (Austria). While nobody managed to crack the €1 million jackpot up for grabs at the first Tiscover Alpine Challenge in the Tyrolean ski resort Westendorf, event winner Christiane Auerbacher headed back to her native Munich in a brand new car.

Global News photographers were out and about around the world capturing the action in 2009 on just about every continent. Whether photographing Mountainbike-Downhill in a downtrodden quarter of Rio de Janeiro or a Motocross-Stunt in the Canadian Rockies, or a parachute jump into an active volcano in Kamchatka or airplane race...

Ten time World champion Orlando Duque, 35, completed a picture-perfect dive off the roof of the Copenhagen Opera House on Tuesday afternoon -- a perfect double forward summersault and a half twist.