Nineteen-year-old Alexander Remnev scaled the Dubai skyscraper - before getting his camera out to take some stomach-churning pictures.
The Supreme Leader of the Islamic republic Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has blamed the United States and Israel on the production of an anti-Islam movie that insults Muslim's Prophet Mohammed.
The International Atomic Energy Agency approved a resolution, expressing "serious concern" on Iran's disputed nuclear program.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned the "hateful" anti-Islam film that touched off anti-American protests in the Middle East and North Africa.
US President Barack Obama on Thursday called his Yemeni counterpart Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi over the security of American personnel and diplomatic facilities in the Arab nation.
Visiting UN-Arab League special representative Lakhdar Brahimi said in Damascus upon arrival that there is a "big crisis" in Syria.
The Iranian ambassador to Syria expressed on Thursday his country's readiness to support all efforts that aim to help solving the Syrian crisis politically.
The United States on Thursday slapped fresh sanctions on the Hezbollah leadership, accusing the Shiite militant group that dominates the Lebanese government of supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in his fight against the opposition forces.
Hundreds of Yemeni demonstrators stormed the US embassy in Sanaa on Thursday in protest at a film deemed blasphemous to Islam, witnesses said.
Israel's population neared 8 million on the eve of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year, the Central Bureau of Statistics reported on Wednesday.
Two army soldiers were killed and many others injured when a suicide car bomb tore through their checkpoint in Syria's northwestern province of Idlib.
China's top legislator made rare remarks about Iran's controversial nuclear programs, saying China opposes sanctions or the threat of using force.
China hopes the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will deal with the Iranian nuclear issue in an objective and balanced manner.
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