Nineteen-year-old Alexander Remnev scaled the Dubai skyscraper - before getting his camera out to take some stomach-churning pictures.
UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi arrived in Baghdad on Monday to hold talks with Iraqi leaders about the Syrian crisis, an official television reported.
total of 4,350 scouts will be deployed to assist pilgrims in Mecca and holy sites for this hajj season, according to the Saudi News Agency on Monday.
Three members of the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party were killed in a clash between the Turkish security forces and the PKK in eastern Turkey late Sunday, private Dogan news agency reported Monday.
The NATO-led forces have confirmed killing a Taliban local leader Qurashi in Kunduz province 250 km north of Afghan capital Kabul, the alliance said in a statement released here on Monday.
A key militant responsible for "external relations" between al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb and the parent organization al-Qaida had been killed last Friday by Algeria's National People's Army.
Ali Zaidan, a former diplomat, was elected Sunday Libya's prime minister after a vote in the country's national congress.
A senior Iranian lawmaker said Sunday that human rights serve as a "tool" for the United States to pursue its objectives in the world, Press TV reported.
Afghan police in conjunction with the army and NATO-led troops have killed 18 Taliban militants during series of operations across the country over the past 24 hours.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Saturday that Ankara will do what is necessary if Syria again violates its border.
The Syrian government issued a ban on Saturday, prohibiting Turkish civilian flights to pass over the Syrian territories.
Two soldiers and a civilian employee with the NATO-led coalition forces were killed Saturday in a blast in southern Afghanistan, the coalition forces confirmed in a statement.
At least 111 armed men were killed Saturday during clashes with the Syrian troops in the northern city of Aleppo and the coastal city of Latakia.
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