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Taking selfies while driving - GN Midday

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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Monday, August the 25th. Here are the

00:09top stories at this hour.

00:11Selfies while driving a car at 120 kilometers per hour is sheer madness, Sharjah Police

00:17said while launching a safe driving campaign on Sunday. Police are cracking down on people

00:21who use their mobile phones while driving after figures showed that over the past seven

00:25months, 8,154 motorists were fined for the offense. The figures for the same period in

00:322013 stood at 7,251.

00:36British actor Richard Attenborough, who starred in Jurassic Park and directed the Oscar-winning

00:41film Gandhi, has died. He was 90. The actor, whose career spans six decades, has been dogged

00:47by bad health for a while, his family said. British Prime Minister David Cameron issued

00:52a statement calling him one of the greats of cinema.

00:55Egypt will be hosting a meeting of foreign ministers of Libya and its neighbors today

00:59as Islamist militias openly challenge the legitimacy of parliament. Almost three years

01:04after a NATO-backed revolt ousted strongman Muammar Gaddafi, Libya has been roiled by

01:09fighting between ex-rebels who have formed militias.

01:13Continued Israeli airstrikes in Gaza left two Palestinians dead overnight, taking the

01:17number of killed Palestinians in the seven-week conflict to 2,122. Meanwhile, Iran's

01:24Revolutionary Guard said it downed an Israeli stealth drone near the Natanz uranium enrichment

01:29site.

01:30More than 5.8 million visitors stayed in Dubai's hotels during the first six months of the

01:34year, up from around 5.5 million visitors during the same period in 2013. Dubai's Department

01:41of Tourism and Commerce Marketing said the visitors' numbers were the highest ever

01:46recorded for the first half of the year.

01:48British singer Gary Barlow is coming to Dubai on October 17. The Take That frontman will

01:54perform at the Dubai Media City Amphitheatre for a one-off performance, which will also

01:59mark the end to his Since I Saw You Last tour.

02:03And finally, weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 34 degrees Celsius, dropping

02:08to 32 degrees at night.

02:10That's all for now. Thanks for watching. And as always, you can get the latest news

02:14at gulfnews.com.