Nineteen-year-old Alexander Remnev scaled the Dubai skyscraper - before getting his camera out to take some stomach-churning pictures.
A prominent Iranian lawmaker says Iran has the knowledge and scientific capability to produce nuclear weapons but will never do so.
At least 27 Syrian soldiers, rebels and civilians were killed in violence on Friday, opposition activists said.
Fighting continues in Syria with casualties increasing, but a political solution is drawing near.
In a message to Iran's supreme leader, US President Barack Obama said that Tehran can have a civilian nuclear program.
All 28 Chinese crew members aboard a China-linked ship hijacked by Somali pirates have been rescued.
The Iranian foreign ministry and navy said Friday that Iran will fully rescue a hijacked Chinese freighter and crew members aboard.
A major Chinese ship insurer will halt cover for tankers carrying Iranian oil from July amid tightening Western sanctions against OPEC's second largest producer.
A UN planning team led by Norwegian Major-General Robert Mood has arrived in Damascus on Thursday, according to UN-Arab League joint special envoy on Syria Kofi Annan.
The UN Security Council on Thursday adopted a presidential statement to voice its support for an April 10 deadline put forward by Kofi Annan to end the year-long crisis in the Middle East country.
The Syrian government said they have begun withdrawing troops from some conflicting areas.
A senior Norwegian UN peacekeeper flies into Damascus on Thursday to try to broker an agreement that will allow observers to be deployed across Syria to monitor a ceasefire demanded by an international peace plan.
Loud explosions reverberated across the central Syrian city of Homs and clashes were reported in several areas across the country on Wednesday.