Nineteen-year-old Alexander Remnev scaled the Dubai skyscraper - before getting his camera out to take some stomach-churning pictures.
Turkey said it would not turn over Iraq's fugitive Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi to the Iraqi authorities after a court ruled to sentence him to death.
The US forces in Afghanistan will transfer the full control of a key prison.
At least 32 people had been killed Sunday in two separate bombings that have marked an intensification of violence in the unrest-torn country.
A series of bombs and gunfire attacks across Iraq on Sunday killed some 52 Iraqis and wounded more than 200 others.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday lauded Canada's decision last week to suspend diplomatic ties with Iran.
At least six people were killed and seven others wounded in a gunfire and car bomb attacks near the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Sunday, the police said.
A senior Iranian defense ministry official announced Sunday that his ministry plans to unveil a highly advanced cruise missile, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
Two southern Israeli municipalities cancelled school on Sunday after Palestinians in the Gaza Strip fired three Grad rockets into the areas, local media reported.
Six people were killed and 14 wounded in separate bomb attacks in Iraq's southern cities of Basra and Nassriyah on Sunday, an Interior Ministry source said.
Five people were killed on Sunday when two roadside bombs tore through a bus carrying passengers from the central town of Misyaf to the capital Damascus, local media reported.
Clashes continued Saturday in several Syrian cities, mainly in Aleppo and the capital Damascus.
Twin blasts rocked the Syrian capital of Damascus on Friday, leaving at least six people killed as intense clashes and violence continued elsewhere causing a number of casualties.
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