Nineteen-year-old Alexander Remnev scaled the Dubai skyscraper - before getting his camera out to take some stomach-churning pictures.
An Israeli jet detonated a spy device planted between the southern towns of Zrariyeh and Tayr Filsay of Lebanon by firing an air-to-ground missile.
Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps warned Israel against military raid on the Islamic republic and said it will hold a missile drill starting on Monday.
A Syrian parliamentarian said the new plan put forward by the Geneva action group meeting, adding the meeting's final communique was balanced.
Beijing expressed deep concern over the Syrian crisis at a meeting in Geneva and endorsed a proposal to establish a transitional governing body.
An action group comprising of world powers that met Saturday in Geneva has agreed upon a roadmap that ushered the way for a Syrian-led transition, to end the country's 16-months' long conflict.
Egyptian President-elect Mohamed Morsi on Saturday took his oath as the first president after the toppling of former President Hosni Mubarak.
Iranian officials have slammed the new EU oil embargo on the Islamic republic and have called for continuation of talks with the world powers.
China reiterated its opposition to unilateral sanctions against Iran, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said on Friday.
If South Korea completely cuts its crude oil imports from Iran, the Islamic republic will reconsider its ties with Seoul.
UN spokesman Martin Nesirky on Thursday called the recent attacks on a Syrian Television station "regrettable and unacceptable."
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Thursday that Israel played a major role in influencing Russia to cancel its planned sale of a crucial missile system to Syria.
Russia would deliver three repaired attack helicopters to Syria on schedule, federal military technological cooperation service said Thursday.
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