Daily headlines from the UAE and around the world brought to you by Gulf News. Solar Impulse 2 completes historic journey. 19 killed in knife attack in Japan. Michelle Obama and Bernie Sanders endorse Hillary Clinton. Abu Dhabi’s real estate market shows early signs of decline. Yahoo! Inc. to sell for 4.8 billion dollars. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv
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00:00Good day and welcome to the gulf news update for Tuesday, July 26.
00:06Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:10Solar Impulse 2 made history early this morning, successfully completing the first fuel-free
00:16flight around the world when it touched down at Al-Bateen Airport in Abu Dhabi.
00:21The solar-powered aircraft's epic 16-month voyage began from Abu Dhabi on March 9, 2015,
00:28spanning about 40,000 km and nearly 500 hours of flying time.
00:34Bertrand Piccard and André Bortschberg, the Swiss founders of the project, took turns
00:40piloting the aircraft, which has a wingspan larger than a Boeing 747 but weighs no more
00:46than an average family car.
00:49A knife-wielding man broke into a facility for the disabled in a small town near Tokyo
00:54early today and killed 19 patients as they slept.
00:59Authorities said the attack was Japan's worst mass killing in decades.
01:04The suspect was a 26-year-old former employee of the facility who gave himself up to the
01:09police.
01:11Democratic power players Michelle Obama and Bernie Sanders offered contrasting endorsements
01:16of Hillary Clinton last night.
01:19As polls showed Donald Trump ahead of Clinton in the race to the White House, the first
01:24lady vowed the Philadelphia crowd as she impeached Trump's character.
01:28Abu Dhabi's real estate market is starting to show early signs of decline, with rents
01:33declining for the first time in three years.
01:36According to a report issued by JLL, the downward trend in Abu Dhabi is supported by lower government
01:42spending and weak investment sentiment.
01:46Yahoo Inc. has agreed to sell its main web businesses to Verizon Communications Inc.
01:51for $4.8 billion.
01:54The deal ends a two-decade run as an independent company that took it from a Stanford University
01:59startup to also ran behind nimbler rivals such as Google and Facebook.
02:05And finally, the weather.
02:07Today's high across the UAE will be 45 degrees Celsius, dropping to 32 degrees at night.
02:13That's all for now.
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