Nineteen-year-old Alexander Remnev scaled the Dubai skyscraper - before getting his camera out to take some stomach-churning pictures.
The United States strongly condemned the spate of attacks across Iraq in the past two days, the deadliest in the country since the withdrawal of US troops.
At least 107 people were killed in bomb and gun attacks in Iraq on Monday after 20 died in blasts the previous day in a coordinated surge of violence against mostly Shiite Muslim targets.
A total of nine people were killed and 33 others wounded on Monday in three car bombs and a roadside bomb attacks in Iraq's eastern province of Diyala.
Iran's Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi said that the Islamic republic will not surrender under Western sanction pressures.
The Arab League on Monday urged the United Nations to meet on Syria to discuss cutting diplomatic ties with the country.
The Arab League on Monday urged the United Nations to meet on Syria to discuss cutting diplomatic ties with the country.
Ehud Barak said that he has ordered the army to prepare to intervene should Syria start to transfer missiles and chemical weapons to the Lebanese group Hezbollah.
Turkey on Sunday sent military reinforcements to its southeastern border with Syria, the Anatolia news agency reported.
Four soldiers were killed and eight others injured as a Turkish military helicopter crashed Sunday shortly after it took off from the Daglica outpost.
Death toll in Sunday's triple bombings in the Iraqi capital Baghdad has risen to 15, an interior ministry source said.
Syrian Information Ministry charged that Western intelligence parties are planning to hack into Syrian TV frequencies in order to spread false news.
A fresh wave of attacks rattled war-ravaged Iraq on Sunday in the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, killing nearly 30 people and injuring scores of others.
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