Nineteen-year-old Alexander Remnev scaled the Dubai skyscraper - before getting his camera out to take some stomach-churning pictures.
Israeli navy evening boarded a ship carrying a Liberian flag on Mediterranean waters, on suspicions that it was carrying weapons to the Gaza strip.
Nearly one in two Germans believe Iran poses a bigger threat to world peace than Israel, according to a poll on Sunday, disagreeing with renowned German author Guenter Grass whose criticism of the Jewish state triggered an international outcry.
International envoy Kofi Annan welcomed Sunday the adoption of a UN Security Council resolution to authorize a UN Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS), and urged all parities in the country to work with UN monitors to consolidate the fragile ceasefire.
Iran's military has started to build a copy of a US surveillance drone captured last year after breaking the software encryption, Iranian media reported.
A French aid worker was kidnapped by gunmen late on Saturday in Yemen's western port city of Hodayda, an official of the interior ministry told Xinhua.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al- Maliki will arrive in Tehran on Sunday for an official two-day visit, the local satellite Press TV reported on Saturday.
Two observers have stationed in the central Homs province so far in order to monitor the implementation of the UN-backed cease-fire in the conflict-torn Syrian province.
The United Nations Security Council unanimously passed a resolution, approving to expand the unarmed military observers to 300 from 30 in Syria.
A team of United Nations ceasefire monitors are in the battered city of Homs and have met with its governor, the Syrian state news agency and a UN spokesman said on Saturday.
Syria's state news agency said that an "armed terrorist" group blew up an oil pipeline in Syria's eastern province of Deir al-Zor, near the border with Iraq, on Saturday.
Tens of thousands of Egyptians demanded on Friday that their military rulers stick to a pledge to hand over power by mid-year after a row over who could run in the presidential election raised doubts about the army's commitment to democracy.
Beijing has offered to send observers to take part in the UN monitoring mission of the cease-fire in Syria.
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