Nineteen-year-old Alexander Remnev scaled the Dubai skyscraper - before getting his camera out to take some stomach-churning pictures.
UN Secretary-general Ban Ki-moon, who has just received a letter from Iran on kidnapped Iranians in Syria, opposes any act of hostage-taking.
Former Syrian Prime Minister Riyad Hijab arrived in Jordan on Wednesday, said Samih Maaytah, Jordan's government spokesman and Minister of State for Information and Media Affairs.
Israeli security forces evacuated residents and demolished several structures in an illegal West Bank outpost early Wednesday, with no clashes reported.
A Syrian rebel group said on Wednesday it had killed a Russian general working as an adviser to Syria's ministry of defence on the outskirts of the capital Damascus.
The Israeli emigration hit its lowest since 1973 with the rate going down 0.7 every 100 citizens.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad held unannounced talks with a top envoy from closest ally Iran on Tuesday, as his troops engaged rebels in Aleppo.
The visiting secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Saeed Jalili stressed Tuesday his country's rejection to foreign intervention in Syria.
Saeed Jalili, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, arrived in Syria Tuesday.
Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast rejected reports that Tehran has allowed the Taliban to open an office in the Islamic republic, Press TV reported on Tuesday.
Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast rejected reports that Tehran has allowed the Taliban to open an office in the Islamic republic, Press TV reported on Tuesday.
A team of Israeli researchers have developed a system to predict formation of dangerous Dead Sea sinkholes through a satellite system.
Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi on Monday made a major military reform of divided army by dismantling the rival forces into new unified forms.
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