Nineteen-year-old Alexander Remnev scaled the Dubai skyscraper - before getting his camera out to take some stomach-churning pictures.
A loud blast was heard after midnight Monday in the Damascus district of al-Mazzeh, the second to rock the capital within hours, witnesses say.
The Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi has ordered pardon for all persons convicted in crimes during the Egyptian uprising, official news agency MENA reported.
A senior Iranian official said that Israel would lose at least 10,000 troops in the event of a military strike on the Islamic republic, Press TV reported on Sunday.
Another Syrian mortar shell fell inside the Turkish territory on Sunday, prompting the retaliatory artillery fire by the Turkish army in a fifth straight day, local newspaper Today's Zaman reported.
The Libyan national congress on Sunday again cast no confidence vote on the cabinet line-up proposed by Prime Minister Mustafa Abushagur, dismissing the newly elected prime minister.
Turkey returned fire across the Syrian border after a mortar shell - believed to be fired by Syrian troops and aimed at opposition groups on the border -landed in southern Turkey on Saturday morning.
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan warned on Friday his country was "not far" from war with Syria following cross-border attacks this week - words which highlighted the danger that the uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Asaad will drag in its neighbours.
Turkish army fired back at targets in Syria for a third straight day after a Syrian mortar shell fell in a non-residential area in Hatay amid cross-border attacks, Turkish NTV news channel reported on Friday.
As many as 67 armed insurgents were killed Wednesday by the Syrian troops in the northern province of Aleppo, the pro-government Sham FM radio said.
Bloodshed continued in Syria Tuesday amid reports that the Syrian army has received reinforcements in the largest city of Aleppo and appears to have gained an upper hand in the prolonged clashes.
Search and rescue continued for six miners who had been trapped in a flooded colliery pit of Heilongjiang province for nine days, though their chances of survival were slim.
A total of 235 activists were killed Sunday in fighting between the Syrian government troops and rebels in the northern city of Aleppo, according to the website of a pro-government al-Watan newspaper.
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