00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Thursday, April 25. Here are the top stories
00:10at this hour.
00:11The death toll in a factory building collapse in Bangladesh has reached 164 as rescue workers
00:17continue to hunt for more survivors and victims. Rescuers said more than 1,500 people were
00:23still feared trapped under the debris, while more than 1,400 people were rescued alive.
00:28Nearly 6.9 million children around the world still die every year from vaccine-preventable
00:33diseases, Microsoft founder Bill Gates said at the Global Vaccine Summit in Abu Dhabi
00:37last night. Gates urged governments, vaccine manufacturers, donors and investors to ensure
00:41that children receive life-saving drugs that protect against infectious diseases.
00:46Unsettled weather conditions linked to a low pressure system over Oman will persist until
00:51the end of April, the Met Office has said. Torrential downpours have so far claimed four
00:55lives since Tuesday, while scores have been rescued from flooded wadis across the northern
01:00half of Oman.
01:01U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has urged Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi to press ahead
01:05with reforms during a visit to Cairo. Morsi has been under fire from secular and liberal
01:10opposition who say the Muslim Brotherhood is trying to push its agenda onto the country.
01:15In sport, Robert Lewandowski scored four goals to inspire Borussia Dortmund to a stunning
01:204-1 demolition of Real Madrid in their Champions League semi-final first leg last night. This
01:25week's entertainment kicks off with the Ultimate Variety Show, a two-hour performance by some
01:30top Las Vegas magicians, acrobats and impersonators at the Dubai World Trade Center from tonight
01:35until Saturday. Also tonight, Bollywood stars John Abraham, Manil Kapoor and Sonny Leone
01:40perform a free concert at Ibn Battuta Mall from 6pm to promote their new film, Shootout
01:46at Wadala.
01:47At the cinema, Michael Bay brings his bombastic style to a true-life crime story in Pain and
01:52Gain. Robert Redford is a former militant avoiding detection in Shia LaBeouf's Crusading
01:57Journalist in The Company You Keep, and Lindsay Lohan and Charlie Sheen team up for Scary
02:01Movie 5.
02:02Finally, the weather in today's high across the UAE will be 35 degrees Celsius, dropping
02:07to 23 at night.
02:08That's all for now, thanks for watching. A quick reminder that we will be back with
02:12the newscast on Sunday, but you can always get the latest news at golfnews.com
02:22.
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