Nineteen-year-old Alexander Remnev scaled the Dubai skyscraper - before getting his camera out to take some stomach-churning pictures.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will meet with UN-Arab League joint special envoy for Syria Kofi Annan in Washington on Friday.
Chinese UN Ambassador Li Baodong told reporters on Monday that the political solution to the crisis in Syria is now at a critical stage.
Russian President Vladimir Putin will talk with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad this week in Beijing.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said that the army is using cyber-warfare to curb attacks on Israel's cyber space and to attack enemies on the net.
Syrian opposition at home played down the speech delivered by the country's President Bashar al- Assad Sunday, who said Syria is subject to a "real war" .
An Israeli oil and gas exploration firm announced Sunday that it had discovered a major oil and gas bed.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Sunday his country is not facing a political crisis but rather a project of sedition and a real war.
Following intense operation launched Friday night, the Afghan police set free all the five aid workers kidnapped from the clutch of the kidnappers in Badakhshan province.
Putin and Hollande on Friday stressed the necessity of full implementation of UN resolution.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday said they favored a political solution for Syria.
China said on Friday that it is not acting as an "obstacle" for resolving the Syrian crisis, but is instead a "positive force" in promoting a political resolution to the issue.
Preliminary investigations indicated that 800 heavily armed men carried out attacks on government forces and slaughtered families in Houla.
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