Nineteen-year-old Alexander Remnev scaled the Dubai skyscraper - before getting his camera out to take some stomach-churning pictures.
Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region received up to 9,000 Syrian refugees looking to flee their country's ongoing violence.
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon on Saturday said he is working with UN-Arab League joint special envoy Kofi Annan to push for a peaceful solution to Syria.
China welcomed the mandate renewal of the UN Supervision Mission in Syria by the UN Security Council.
The European Union will adopt more sanctions against Syria, said an EU foreign affairs official.
Syrian information ministry on Friday denied as "totally baseless" media reports which cited the Russian ambassador to France as saying that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is ready to leave office in a "civilized way."
Syria's intelligence chief Hisham Bekhtyar has died of wounds suffered in a bombing on Wednesday which killed three of President Bashar al-Assad's top security officials
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon on Thursday expressed his disappointment at the Security Council's failure to adopt a western-proposed resolution.
Syrian state TV denied Thursday a barrage of media reports saying that the rebels have taken control of areas in the capital and elsewhere.
Lebanon's Minister of Social Affairs Wael Abou Faour said that 8,500 Syrians fled to Lebanon on Thursday, particularly from the Syrian capital of Damascus and its neighborhoods.
Russia and China vetoed a Western-backed UN Security Council resolution on Thursday that threatened Syrian authorities with sanctions.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday he was alarmed by the intensifying violence in Syria, saying he "strongly condemns" the bombing in Damascus that killed the Syrian defence minister and President Bashar al-Assad's brother-in-law.
US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin acknowledged their differences on Syria, but agreed to continue discussions toward a solution.
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