Nineteen-year-old Alexander Remnev scaled the Dubai skyscraper - before getting his camera out to take some stomach-churning pictures.
Suspected al-Qaida militants killed a senior Yemeni security coordinator between the Yemeni government and the US embassy in the capital Sanaa on Thursday, said an official of the Yemeni interior ministry.
The drafting commission in the Egyptian Constituent Assembly has finished the first draft of the constitution except some articles to be worked out within a week, official news agency MENA reported on Wednesday.
Iran's Supreme Leader downplayed the Western sanctions against the Islamic republic, saying the Iranian nation will overcome problems as always.
The United States has sent troops to the Jordan-Syria border to bolster that country's military capabilities, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Wednesday.
An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale jolted southern Iran on Wednesday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that Turkey has no intention to intervene Syria's internal affairs and what happening in Syria is not because of Turkey.
A local Taliban leader, who was accused of shooting down a NATO CH-47 Chinook helicopter last year, was killed in Afghanistan's eastern province of Kunar, the NATO-led coalition forces confirmed on Wednesday.
Up to six Afghan Local Police members were killed Wednesday morning when a bomb they were defusing went off in southern Afghan province of Helmand, a provincial government spokesman said.
After a four-year tenure, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday announced that early general elections would be held, but did not specify an exact date.
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Tuesday urged the international community, especially the UN Security Council, to put "much stronger" pressure on the Syrian government to bring about a political solution.
Afghanistan rejected a report that the government could collapse after NATO and US forces pull out by the end of 2014, local media reported on Tuesday.
Sudan's ruling National Congress Party on Monday condemned the mortar shells attack by an armed group belonging to Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM)/ northern sector on Kadogli, official SUNA news agency reported.
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