Nineteen-year-old Alexander Remnev scaled the Dubai skyscraper - before getting his camera out to take some stomach-churning pictures.
UNSC has decided to postpone its vote on a draft resolution concerning Syria to Thursday morning.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Barack Obama held a telephone conversation over the Syrian crisis on Wednesday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday accused Iran of being behind the attack that killed at least three Israelis and left more than 20 wounded at the Burgas airport.
The United States imposed sanctions against 29 senior Syrian officials on Wednesday as the world was scrambling for ways to end the 16-month violence and bloodshed in the Arab country.
The foreign policy chief of the European Union (EU) Catherine Ashton on Wednesday condemned the suicide bomb attack in Damascus which killed three senior officials.
Russia has accused the West of inciting the Syrian opposition after a suicide bomber killed the defense minister and President Bashar Assad's brother-in-law.
Syrian Assistant Vice-President, General Hassan Turkmani, died Wednesday afternoon of wounds he sustained in the deadly blast that tore through the national security building in the capital Damascus earlier in the day.
Syria's rebel commander says his forces carried out an attack in Damascus that killed the defense minister and other regime officials. But he denies it was a suicide bombing.
Syrian state television said General Hassan Turkmani, a former defence minister and senior military official, died of wounds sustained in a bomb attack in Damascus on Wednesday, confirming earlier reports from security sources.
US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Wednesday the situation in Syria appeared to be "spinning out of control" as he and his British counterpart warned that the Syrian regime would be held responsible for securing its chemical weapons.
The violence and turmoil that have hit several Syrian cities since the start of the crisis has reached the heart of the capital Damascus.
Clashes and skirmishes continued Monday for the second straight day in a number of southern neighborhoods of Syria's capital Damascus.
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