Thursday: The day in photos

A woman demonstrates her skills at graduation ceremonies for Algerian police trainees. She was among 490 women joining police units.  (Fayez Nureldine / AFP / Getty Images)

A multiexposure image shows Britain’s Andy Murray battling Marin Cilic of Croatia the Madrid Masters tennis tournament in Spain. Murray won 7-5, 7-6, to move on to the quarterfinals.  (Pierre-Philippe Marcou / AFP / Getty Images)

Musicians prepare to supply the high notes for a couple getting married on a platform more than 150 feet above the ground in Sint-Truiden, Belgium. The “marriage in the sky” ceremony concludes with the couple bungee-jumping from the platform.  (Sven Dillen / AFP / Getty Images)

A crew member prepares a hot-air balloon during an international festival in Timna, Israel, marking the Jewish holiday of Sukkot.  (Sebastian Scheiner / Associated Press)

At reburial ceremonies at the British military cemetery in Berlin, members of the British Royal Navy carry the coffin of a British soldier killed in World War II. The British soldier, John Bremner, was shot down over Berlin 64 years ago.  (Wolfgang Kumm / EPA)

Members of a dance troupe perform in front of the Kaminarimon Gate at the Sensoji Temple in Tokyo’s Asakusa shopping district, promoting their annual show.  (Shizuo Kambayashi / Associated Press)

On the United Nations’ World Food Day, women who survived the 1984 gas-leak tragedy in Bhopal, India, hold up pieces of bread as they demonstrate against the state government in Bhopal.   (Sanjeev Gupta / EPA)

Autumn has come to Belarus and its neighboring states in the Baltic region. Here, strollers take in the colors in a Minsk park.  (Viktor Drachev / AFP / Getty Images)