00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Monday, September the 23rd. Here are the
00:09top stories at this hour.
00:11Loud explosions and heavy gunfire were heard at the Nairobi mall, where police are trying
00:14to flush out Al-Qaeda-linked gunmen in an attack that left 68 people dead. Soldiers
00:20and police have rescued most of the hostages after they began a major assault to end the
00:25siege, the Kenyan Defense Forces said.
00:28Children below the age of three years and eight months in Abu Dhabi can no longer be
00:32admitted to KG1 from the new academic year in 2014. The rule by the Abu Dhabi Education
00:38Council readjusts the minimum age of admission, which was earlier set at three years for KG1
00:44and equivalent grades.
00:45Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said he was not concerned about a draft resolution that
00:50the US, the UK and France have submitted to the UN Security Council to place Syrian chemical
00:55weapons under international control. More than 130 heads of state arrived in New York
01:01today on the eve of the annual UN General Assembly, set to be dominated by the war in
01:06Syria.
01:07Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is expected to make his debut on the world stage. Sudanese
01:12President Omar al-Bashir, wanted for genocide by the International Criminal Court, has said
01:17he would be attending the meeting.
01:19In sport, Manchester United manager David Moyes has hit out at his players after their
01:24crushing 4-1 derby defeat at Manchester City. In cricket, Chennai Super Kings beat Titans
01:30of South Africa by four wickets in their Champions League T20 game last night.
01:35Entertainment and Breaking Bad, the brutal saga of an everyman's ambition turned evil,
01:40has captured its first Best Drama Emmy Award. Modern Family won its fourth consecutive trophy
01:45for Top Comedy Series at the Emmys.
01:47WikiLeaks has posted the script to the Fifth Estate and made its most forceful denunciation
01:52of the film about the site's creation and its founder, Julian Assange.
01:56And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 37 degrees Celsius, dropping
02:00to 29 at night.
02:02That's all for now. Thanks for watching. As always, you can get the latest news at
02:05gulfnews.com.
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