Nineteen-year-old Alexander Remnev scaled the Dubai skyscraper - before getting his camera out to take some stomach-churning pictures.
Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird said on Monday that Canada has closed its embassy and consulate in Syria and put further sanctions on Damascus.
Kofi Annan, the United Nations and Arab League envoy to Syria, and Valerie Amos, the UN humanitarian chief, will visit Syria in the coming days, a UN spokesman said on Monday.
A gas pipeline in Egypt's South Arish in Sinai peninsula was bombed by masked gunmen on Monday, a local security official source told Xinhua.
Two children were killed and two other civilians were injured Monday evening when a suicide attack rocked the main gate of Bagram Airbase, north of Afghan capital of Kabul.
China on Monday explained its recent six-point statement for the political resolution of Syria's problems, saying it fully revealed China's responsible and constructive attitude in addressing the crisis.
Gunmen disguised as police raided checkpoints and homes in western Iraq on Monday, killing at least 27 members of the security forces, police said.
Israeli President Shimon Peres on Sunday called Iran "a danger to the entire world," vowing to stop the country's acquisition of a nuclear weapon.
The Yemen-based al-Qaida wing said it captured 70 government soldiers after it overrun an artillery battalion during fighting with government troops early Sunday.
Western countries still have neither the plan nor the willingness to intervene militarily in Syria, a Chinese envoy said.
China maintains that the current crisis should be resolved through political dialogue in a peaceful and appropriate manner, and has made unremitting efforts to this end.
Yemeni officials said the death toll of the army from their battle with al-Qaida militants in the southern province of Abyan on Sunday rose up to 50, while al-Qaida said only two of its fighters were killed.
The bodies of two foreign journalists who were killed last week in Syria's restive Homs province were handed over to representatives of their countries Saturday.
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