GN Midday Sunday Jan 13 2013

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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News update for Sunday, January 13. Here are the top stories

00:10at this hour.

00:12Six men have been arrested for allegedly gang-raping a 29-year-old woman in India's Punjab state.

00:18The victim was travelling in a bus when the driver and his assistant forcibly took her

00:22to an unknown location where five other men joined them. Police said that the woman's

00:26medical examination has confirmed sexual assault.

00:30In Dubai, a survey commissioned by the municipality found the city still has room for further

00:35development projects. Only 60% of Dubai's area is either developed or under development,

00:40according to the survey. The new database will help identify the areas that can be utilised

00:45for future housing, investment and industrial projects.

00:50Israeli police, backed by bulldozers this morning, evicted Palestinian protesters from

00:54a hilltop camp they set up in a West Bank area slated for an illegal Jewish colony.

01:00About 200 Palestinian activists set up the Bab al-Shams camp on Friday in the controversial

01:05E1 area.

01:07Russia says Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's exit cannot be a precondition for a transition

01:13deal. Despite heavy diplomatic efforts last week, there was no sign of a breakthrough

01:17to end the country's conflict. New York has declared an emergency over a flu epidemic

01:23that has affected more than 19,000 people. Governor Andrew Cuomo said it was critical

01:28to suspend for the next 30 days a legal restriction that only allows New York pharmacists to administer

01:34flu vaccines to patients 18 years or older.

01:37Aaron Swartz, a co-founder of Reddit and an activist who fought to make online content

01:42free to the public, has been found dead. The 26-year-old was to go on trial on accusations

01:48that he stole millions of journal articles from an electronic archive in an attempt to

01:53make them freely available.

01:56In business, the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week commences today with the third session

02:01of the International Renewable Energy Agency's General Assembly. As part of the week, the

02:06World Future Energy Summit will bring together global leaders in policy, technology and business

02:12to discuss new ways of shaping the future of renewable energy.

02:16In sport, UAE football fans are queuing up across the country to register for free flights

02:22to take them to Bahrain to watch the Gulf Cup semi-final on Tuesday. UAE will play Kuwait

02:27while Iraq faces Bahrain in the other semi-final on the same day.

02:32Entertainment and a 23-year-old contestant from Brooklyn won the title of Miss America

02:37in Las Vegas last night. Mallory Hagan won the beauty pageant after tap dancing to James

02:42Brown's Get Up Off Of That Thing and answering a question about whether armed guards belong

02:47in grade schools by saying, we should not fight violence with violence.

02:52Weather and today's high across the UAE will be 24 degrees Celsius, dropping to 15 degrees

02:57at night.

02:58That's all for now. Thanks for watching and as always you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com