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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Thursday, March 7. Here are the top stories
00:09at this hour.
00:10The number of Syrian refugees registered by the United Nations has reached one million.
00:15The UN has said nearly four million of Syria's 22 million people have been driven from their
00:20homes by the civil war.
00:22Traffic police in Abu Dhabi have planned to introduce an electronic weather system on
00:26roads to alert motorists of fog, rain and visibility problems. The system will later
00:30be implemented across the country.
00:33A three-year-old Kerala girl was kidnapped and raped. She was later abandoned near a
00:37building, police said.
00:38A child belonging to a migrant Tamil family was sleeping with her mother near a hospital
00:43on Monday, but next morning she was found missing.
00:46The European Commission has imposed a €561 million fine on Microsoft for failing to provide
00:52consumers a choice of web browsers on a version of Windows 7.
00:56Sport and Paris Saint-Germain and Juventus became the latest clubs to reach the Champions
01:00League quarter-finals last night, after beating Valencia and Celtic, respectively, on aggregate.
01:06If you are out and about this weekend, head to the movies. The Wizard of Oz has been a
01:10pop culture touchstone for 74 years and is enchanted young and old alike with its tale
01:15of there's no place like home. So the release this week of a prequel to the film, titled
01:20Oz, the Great and Powerful, has got a lot of people wondering whether our cinematic
01:24classics should be tinkered with. Make your own decision.
01:28Merchie Bollywood Rocks at Dubai World Trade Center on Friday showcases the voices of top
01:32Bollywood singers Shankar-E-Sanloi and Sunidhi Chauhan.
01:36And finally, weather. The daytime temperature will be 36 degrees Celsius, falling to 15
01:41at night.
01:42That's all for now. Thanks for watching. A reminder that our next bulletin will be on
01:46Sunday, but make sure you catch the latest round-up of news from the entertainment world
01:50on tabloid's The Weekly Wrap on golfnews.com tomorrow from 9am. And as always, you can
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