Nineteen-year-old Alexander Remnev scaled the Dubai skyscraper - before getting his camera out to take some stomach-churning pictures.
US drones raided al-Qaida convoys in Yemen's southeastern province of Shabwa and central province of Marib, killing at least 21 al- Qaida militants.
China strongly condemns the two recent terrorist bombings in the Syrian capital of Damascus, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said Friday.
The White House on Thursday expressed its support to the peace plan proposed by UN-Arab League joint envoy Kofi Annan.
A new Israel Air Force (IAF) chief took charge, against a sharp debate by the country's leaders on if, when and how it might have to unleash it' s air power.
Two suicide car bombers killed more than 55 people and wounded 372 in the Syrian capital Damascus, the Syrian Interior Ministry said in a statement.
Two loud explosions hit the Syrian capital of Damascus on Thursday, the latest in a string of explosions that have been rocking major cities across Syria lately.
The six-lane highway to Homs was busy with trucks and buses. This, our guide said, wouldn't have been seen several months ago.
Syria is fully committed to the United Nations peace mission inside the country, and is not on the fringe of civil war, a senior Syrian diplomat said.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon on Wednesday condemned a bomb attack that occurred in the vicinity of a convoy of the UN Supervision Mission in Syria ( UNSMIS).
Several bombings were carried out Wednesday near Syria's capital Damascus by unidentified armed groups believed to be rebel fighters, posing more challenges to the UN monitoring mission which has witnessed one of the bombings Wednesday
As Syria is bracing to announce its first parliamentary elections' result, Kofi Annan expressed concern that with the ongoing violence Syria might descend into a full civil war.
The Syrian National Council agrees with UN-Arab League envoy to Syria Kofi Annan's peace plan and values China's role in working toward a political resolution to the crisis.
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