00:00Good day, welcome to the Gulf News update for Wednesday, March the 19th. Here are the
00:09top stories at this hour.
00:11Investigations into the mystery of the missing Malaysian Flight 370 appear to be at a deadlock
00:16today. While there's been no conclusive evidence of foul play, doubts also emerged whether
00:21nations would share military tracking data that could show where the Boeing 777 could
00:26have headed. Police in the Maldives, meanwhile, are probing reports that its islanders saw
00:30a low-flying jumbo jet on the day the plane vanished.
00:34Here in the UAE, completion of the 350 million dirham third phase of Mohammed bin Zayed Road
00:39Expansion Project in Sharjah is expected to significantly reduce traffic jams on the busy
00:45highway. Motorists are eager for the completion of the expansion work scheduled for early
00:49April following the opening of the expanded National Paints Bridge last month.
00:55The Israeli regime says it's bombed Syrian government targets in the northern Golan
00:59Heights earlier today in response to an earlier attack on its soldiers. The air raids marked
01:04the biggest publicly acknowledged military strike against Syria since the civil war against
01:08Bashar al-Assad's regime began three years ago.
01:12In sport, Chelsea ruined Didier Drogba's return to Stamford Bridge last night. The Blues swept
01:16into the Champions League quarter-finals with a 2-0 victory over Galatasaray, calming their
01:21nerves following Saturday's acrimonious 1-0 defeat at Aston Villa.
01:26And Mick Jagger has paid poignant tributes to his late companion, designer Loren Scott.
01:31The Stones frontman called her his lover and best friend and said he was struggling to
01:35understand why she might have taken her own life. The fashion designer was found dead
01:39on Monday in her Manhattan apartment in an apparent suicide.
01:44And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 27 degrees Celsius, dropping
01:48to 19 tonight.
