Nineteen-year-old Alexander Remnev scaled the Dubai skyscraper - before getting his camera out to take some stomach-churning pictures.
The Syrian government accepted a ceasefire during the Eid al-Adha holidays, a proposal put forward by Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN-Arab League (AL) joint special representative to Syria, AL said on Wednesday.
China support UN envoy's truce plan in Syria
"Armed terrorist groups" killed 13 people in a restive suburb of the Syrian capital of Damascus, state TV said on Wednesday.
The Libyan army, and allied forces known as "Libya Shield" on Tuesday pushed into the former regime's bastion of Bani Walid and seized control of strategic buildings.
Show jumpers land in their parachutes during a festival to celebrate Libya's first anniversary of its "liberation" from Muammar Gaddafi in Benghazi Oct 23, 2012.
Lakhdar Brahimi said he had received promises, not commitments, from all opposition groups outside Syria to the idea of ceasefire.
Iran has embarked on an endeavor to develop green energy in order to reduce its domestic fossil fuel consumption.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad granted on Tuesday general amnesty to people who committed crimes before Oct 23.
Up to eight people were killed and 15 wounded in a series of bomb attacks in northern and western Baghdad of Iraq on Tuesday morning.
US President Barack Obama vowed Monday night that he would not let Iran have nuclear weapons as long as he remains in office.
Violence erupted in downtown Beirut on Sunday as protesters tried to storm the offices of Prime Minister Najib Mikati after the funeral of an assassinated intelligence chief, whose death they blame on Syria.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel was not aware of any talks between the United States and Iran, after a report by the New York Times stated that both countries had agreed to one-on-one talks.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Sunday called on the Libyan authorities and factions in the Libyan city of Bani Walid to resolve the stand-off peacefully.
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