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Posted: September 2, 2009 at 4:13 a.m.

Alain Robert, a French climber nicknamed "Spiderman," was arrested on a charge of criminal trespass after police said he scaled Malaysia's iconic 88-story Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur.

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