Nineteen-year-old Alexander Remnev scaled the Dubai skyscraper - before getting his camera out to take some stomach-churning pictures.
China supports any efforts to help realize a sustained cessation of violence and initiate political dialogue among parties in Syria.
At least four US soldiers were feared dead when a NATO helicopter crashed overnight in restive southern Afghan Helmand province.
A US military official said Black Hawk helicopter crashed on Thursday in southern Afghanistan with four US troops believed to be on board, US media reported.
Syria and the UN observers signed on Thursday a preliminary agreement that regulates the the team's task to monitor the cease-fire brokered by international envoy Kofi Annan.
China is considering sending personnel to participate in the United Nations' observers mission in Syria, Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Weimin said here Thursday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres on Wednesday highlighted a nuclear Iran as the closest existential threat to the world nowadays.
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Mualem on Wednesday said a plan for 250 international observers was a "reasonable and logical" number to monitor a days-old ceasefire in the country
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Mualem was to begin a two-day visit to China on Wednesday in the first bilateral high-level exchange.
Thirteen people were killed and nine wounded in separate attacks, including a suicide bombing, across Iraq on Monday, official and police sources said.
The UN advance team of several observers, who arrived here late Sunday, are ready to begin monitoring the truce brokered by international envoy Kofi Annan.
The United States will maintain sanctions and other pressure on Iran as Tehran considers what it will bring to the table in the next round of talks.
An advance team of UN ceasefire monitors started work in Syria on Monday, seeking to ensure that both government forces and the opposition respect the terms of a truce, mediator Kofi Annan's spokesman said.
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