00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Sunday, March the 24th. Here are the top
00:09stories at this hour.
00:10Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf is en route to his homeland after more than
00:15four years in self-exile. Musharraf's flight to Karachi left Dubai on Sunday carrying supporters
00:20who hope the ex-general can make a political comeback in the May parliamentary elections.
00:25Pakistani Taliban has vowed to kill him. Dubai has saved 200,000 kilowatts and cut 120 tons
00:32of carbon emissions by participating in the Earth Hour on Saturday night.
00:36European Union Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton is voicing concern over the deteriorating
00:41situation in Lebanon following the resignation of Prime Minister Najib Mekati. The politically
00:46volatile country is struggling to cope with the spillover of violence and a wave of refugees
00:50from the two-year-old civil war in Syria.
00:53Experts in chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear emergencies have been deployed
00:58to the British property where Russian exile Boris Berezovsky was found dead, police said.
01:03Berezovsky, a Russian oligarch and longtime critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin,
01:08was found dead at his home on Saturday.
01:10Cyprus still has not secured the bailout it needs to hold off imminent bankruptcy. Its
01:15leaders are in Brussels for talks with EU and IMF representatives. Cyprus needs 10 billion
01:20euros in loans by Monday.
01:21Golf and Tiger Woods look set to regain the world No. 1 ranking when he fired a 6-under-par
01:2666 on Saturday to seize a two-shot lead after the third round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
01:32Three-time Miami champion Venus Williams has withdrawn from the WTA and ATP Masters Miami
01:37Hard Court Tournament with a lower back injury.
01:40Green slime spewed furiously at the Kids' Choice Awards on Saturday, where Twilight
01:44Saga star Kirsten Stewart and British boy band One Direction won two awards each.
01:49And finally, weather. The daytime temperature will be 29 degrees Celsius falling to 18 degrees
01:53at night.
01:54That's all for now. Thanks for watching and as always, you can get the latest news
01:57at golfnews.com.
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