Nineteen-year-old Alexander Remnev scaled the Dubai skyscraper - before getting his camera out to take some stomach-churning pictures.
Global police body Interpol called on Tuesday for help in arresting fugitive Iraqi Vice-President Tareq al-Hashemi on suspicion of planning and funding attacks in Iraq.
An International Atomic Energy Agency expert died in a car accident in Iran.
The visiting Arab League chief on Tuesday highly praised Beijing's role in regional affairs in the Middle East.
The Syrian government said Monday it was satisfied with a "remarkable" turnout in its "smoothly" parliamentary elections held on Monday despite the US cynicism.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon said on Monday that the priority for the moment is to deploy observers to Syria as soon as possible.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reached an agreement with the main opposition party to form a national unity government and cancel early elections.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said the Islamic republic will set a date for the official launch of Bushehr nuclear power plant.
Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast expressed hope that the new French President- elect Francois Hollande would "revise the wrong policies.
China hopes the parliamentary election in Syria will help to advance its political reform process.
The Yemen-based al-Qaida said its prominent leader Fahd al-Quso was killed on Sunday in a US air raid in the mountains of southeastern Shabwa province.
A group of UN monitors headed Sunday to restive suburbs around the Syrian capital of Damascus as part of their mission to bring the 13-month unrest in Syria to a close.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is about to announce a reshuffle of Prime Minister Salam Fayyad's cabinet, sources said Sunday.
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