Nineteen-year-old Alexander Remnev scaled the Dubai skyscraper - before getting his camera out to take some stomach-churning pictures.
China on Wednesday said there was no truth to an Iranian media report about a joint military drill involving China, Russia, Syria and Iran.
Vice Premier Hui Liangyu on Wednesday mourned the death of Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia on behalf of the Chinese government at the country's embassy in Beijing.
The latest round of talks between Iran and six world powers as well as the European Union ended late Tuesday.
The situation in Syria is "getting worse" as violence was intensified by both sides of the fighting in the unrest-ridden country.
The chief United Nations observer in Syria, Major General Robert Mood, is expected to brief the UN Security Council on the current situation in Syria on Tuesday afternoon.
The latest round of talks to resolve the nuclear dispute have started in Moscow on Monday.
Latest round of talks between Iran and the world's six major powers in addition to the European Union to resolve the nuclear dispute have started in Moscow on Monday.
Sanctions on Syria are getting harder with world countries racing every now and then to introduce new package of sanctions to further squeeze the Syrian economy.
The Syrian foreign ministry on Sunday slammed the decision of the Arab League (AL) to halt the broadcast of Syria's official and private TVs on Arab satellites.
One day before the new round of nuclear negotiations, Iranian officials reiterated their insistence on what they called Tehran's nuclear rights.
Two car bomb explosions killed 32 Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad as millions of them ended Saturday a major ritual at a holy shrine in the Iraqi capital.
A number of attacks occurred across Syria on Saturday as the UN supervision mission suspended its operations indefinitely due to the continuous violence.