Nineteen-year-old Alexander Remnev scaled the Dubai skyscraper - before getting his camera out to take some stomach-churning pictures.
Once again, Western powers are digging deep for excuses to intervene militarily in another conflict-torn Middle East country.
A group of gunmen attacked Tuesday two military checkpoints in southern Yemen, triggering a fierce firefight with army forces in the province of Lahj, a local security official said.
At least nine people, including four children, were killed by a remote-controlled car bomb in southeastern Turkey, Turkish officials said Tuesday.
As violence raged on Tuesday in several Syrian cities, a leading opposition party inside the country pinned its hopes on the new UN special envoy.
The remains of Japanese journalist Mika Yamamoto who was reportedly killed in Syria was brought to the Turkish province of Kilis on Tuesday.
Iran's defense minister said Tuesday that the country's Defense Ministry plans to produce a variety of fighter jets, missiles, drones, submarines and military vehicles by the end of the Iranian calendar year (started March 20, 2012), Press TV reported.
Two rocket attacks targeting a US military airbase in Afghanistan on early Tuesday damaged the plane of the top US military officer, leaving two people wounded, an officer confirmed.
Russia has never supplied Syria with chemical weapons, a senior Russian official in charge of chemical weapons safety said Tuesday.
Militants of the al-Qaida offshoot blew up a natural gas pipeline in Yemen's Shabwa province early Tuesday, causing a huge explosion.
Four security officers were killed and seven other injured in a blast that rattled the Syrian capital of Damascus early Tuesday, local media reported.
Activists said a Japanese female journalist was severely injured in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo on Monday.
The Syrian government supported the UN role in Syria and any "formula" it wanted to employ, President Bashar al-Assad's special envoy, Bouthaina Shaaban, said here Monday.
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