Nineteen-year-old Alexander Remnev scaled the Dubai skyscraper - before getting his camera out to take some stomach-churning pictures.
Iranian Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi said Sunday that nuclear talks between Iran and six world powers dubbed P5+1 will "possibly" resume in late November, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported.
Syria's state TV said 13 people were killed and 29 others injured in the blast that struck a time-honored square in the Syrian capital Damascus earlier on Sunday.
The United States and Iran have agreed for the first time to have one-on-one talks over the latter's controversial nuclear program, the New York Times reported on Saturday, quoting Obama administration officials.
Israeli navy on Saturday intercepted a Finnish-flagged boat carrying pro-Palestinian international activists about 40 miles away from the Gaza Strip's coast, a Palestinian official said.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Friday called on the Syrian government to enforce a ceasefire during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha next week.
At least 15 Afghan civilians were killed and 18 others wounded Friday morning in a roadside bombing in northern Balkh province, a provincial police spokesman said.
Twenty-eight soldiers of the Turkish security forces were wounded when an explosion rocked a natural gas pipeline in eastern Turkey, local media reported Friday.
A suicide car bomber blew up his explosives-laden vehicle near an army base in Yemen's southern province of Abyan Friday morning, leaving at least seven soldiers dead, an official told Xinhua.
Chinese special envoy to the Middle East Wu Sike will visit Israel, Palestine, the United Nations Headquarters and the United States from October 19 to 28, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said at a regular press briefing on Thursday.
A pair of missiles fired from a US drone slammed into al-Qaida hideouts in Yemen's Abyan early Thursday, killing at least eight militants, a security official told Xinhua.
Units of Afghan police have killed two Taliban militants and arrested nine others over the past 24 hours, Interior Ministry said in a statement released on Thursday.
The United States and Israel are ready for their largest ever bilateral air defense exercise, aiming to improve the missile defense of Israel, senior US and Israeli military officials said Wednesday.
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