Nineteen-year-old Alexander Remnev scaled the Dubai skyscraper - before getting his camera out to take some stomach-churning pictures.
A car bomb believed to have been planted by Kurdish separatists exploded close to a police station in the southeastern Turkish city of Gaziantep.
China reiterated its political position on the Syria issue, calling on related parties to stop the violence.
At least 15 members of the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party were killed in a military operation by the Turkish security forces in Southeast Turkey on the Iraq border on Sunday.
The Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey pays an unannounced visit to Afghanistan, local media reported Monday.
Libya said Sunday it had arrested some terrorists responsible for two car bombings in Tripoli earlier in the day, when two people were killed and three others wounded.
Four shells fired from Syria landed on Jordanian territory on Sunday, injuring a Jordanian girl, said the Minister of State for Media Affairs and Communications Samih Maaytah.
Israeli and American naval counterparts spent the last week holding a joint search-and-rescue exercises in the Mediterranean Sea.
Clashes and protests hit various parts of Syria on Sunday, the first day of Eid al-Fitr, one of the most important feasts on the Muslim calendar.
Two explosions hit the Libyan capital of Tripoli early Sunday, killing at least two people.
Iran's reaction to any threat and aggression of Israel against its territory will be very swift and crushing
Unabated street battles continued across Syria, as the head of the expired UNSMIS expressed frustration that the mission hasn't accomplished its main goal.
UN appoints new Syria envoy
About 50 militants were killed on Saturday afternoon when a NATO pilotless plane carried out an attack in Afghanistan's eastern province of Kunar, the police said.
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