Nineteen-year-old Alexander Remnev scaled the Dubai skyscraper - before getting his camera out to take some stomach-churning pictures.
Iran will get full control of its Bushehr nuke plant at the end of 2012 from the Russian contractor, a Russian project manager said Tuesday.
China maintains its opposition to any use of chemical weapons or military intervention in Syria, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said Tuesday.
A team of Israeli archaeologists have uncovered remains of a sixth-century Jewish village in the Negev desert during construction work on a toll road.
Hundreds of Yemenis including youth activists on Monday rallied in the southeastern province of Hadramout against US drone strikes in the country.
The Obama administration is taking a range of steps short of war to force Iran to take more seriously negotiations over its disputed nuclear program.
A Foreign Ministry spokesman on Monday expressed deep concern over a possible spillover of violence from the ongoing Syrian crisis.
Due to a recent rise in "insider attacks" against NATO troops, the US forces in Afghanistan have suspended the training of about 1,000 Afghan local police recruits.
A traffic accident on Sunday morning in southern Iran has claimed the lives of 19 people.
Bombings and urban clashes continued across Syria Sunday, showing no sign of abatement.
A veiled anchorwoman reading the news appeared on the Egyptian TV for the first time on Sunday upon a decision by the Egyptian Information Minister.
Police have arrested a Taliban key commander in Kunduz province 250 km north of Afghan capital Kabul, provincial police chief Samiullah Qatra said Saturday.
Afghan officials say two suicide attackers have blown themselves up near a NATO base in the country's east, killing at least 12 people and wounding more than 50.
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