Nineteen-year-old Alexander Remnev scaled the Dubai skyscraper - before getting his camera out to take some stomach-churning pictures.
Tension has clearly risen on the Lebanese-Israeli border, security sources told Xinhua Wednesday.
Syria's state media said the troops on Wednesday clashed with and inflicted heavy losses on the insurgents in a number of areas.
Moscow believed the UN observers in Syria should continue their work there, as a withdrawal of the mission would cause "extremely negative consequences," the Russian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.
Indonesian Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro said on Wednesday that Iraq was interested in buying weapons manufactured by Indonesia
About 26 Taliban insurgents were killed and 34 others detained in the past 24 hours, the Afghan Interior Ministry said Wednesday morning.
Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister said Wednesday the blast that rocked the surrounding of a UN hotel, is a "criminal one that aims to distort the image of Syria".
The United States has downplayed the scheduled visit to Iran by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on August 28, reported Indo-Asian News Service on Wednesday.
Fierce fighting in Aleppo between government forces and armed rebels has become a thorn in the flesh for many Syrians.
A Taliban bomb killed four local elders in Kajaki district in southern Afghan province of Helmand Tuesday night, a senior provincial official said Wednesday
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had held talks with her counterparts from a number of Western countries.
Iranian officials voiced their opposition against the isolation of Syria and called the US no- fly zone plan an "ominous plot".
The United States does not believe Israel has made a decision on whether to attack Iran over its nuclear program, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said.
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