00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News update for Tuesday, May 13. Here are the top stories
00:09at this hour.
00:11Two company owners held by police after 13 workers were killed in a grisly bus crash
00:16were released on Monday. A company representative said both owners had been held in custody
00:21for two days for questioning.
00:23Manchester City arrived in Abu Dhabi this morning ahead of their post-season exhibition
00:27match against Al Ain on Thursday. The newly crowned English Premier League champions
00:31will take part in a number of engagements while in the UAE. Thursday's game will see
00:35them officially open the new Hazza bin Zayed Stadium in Al Ain.
00:39The World Health Organization is expected to hold an emergency meeting today on the
00:44deadly MERS virus, which has killed 142 people in Saudi Arabia alone. The US has meanwhile
00:50announced a second case of the virus in a health worker who was residing in Saudi Arabia.
00:55The United States said it is flying manned missions over Nigeria in search of over 200
01:00abducted schoolgirls. The announcement comes after the Nigerian government dismissed a
01:05prisoner swap offer from the Boko Haram kidnappers.
01:09US President Barack Obama has pledged to work closely with the new Indian government as
01:13Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi was forecast to have pulled off a crushing victory in the
01:17world's biggest elections. Obama said India has set an example for the world as he hailed
01:22the contest as a vibrant demonstration of our shared values of diversity and freedom.
01:28French fashion house Chanel and its creative director Karl Lagerfeld will gather thousands
01:32of the world's most fashionable people on an island off the coast of Dubai tonight for
01:37its latest cruise collection fashion show. Those attending include Tilda Swinton and
01:42Vanessa Paradis. This is the first time Chanel's annual cruise presentation has travelled to
01:47Dubai.
01:48A hip New York hotel said it's investigating how surveillance video of Beyoncé's sister
01:53Solange Knowles attacking brother-in-law Jay-Z in an elevator wound up on an internet gossip
01:59site. The video shows Solange kicking and hitting Jay-Z at the Standard Hotel and a
02:04bodyguard is seen trying to restrain the agitated 27-year-old singer while her megastar sister
02:09Beyoncé is seen standing in the corner.
02:12And finally the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 38 degrees Celsius dropping
02:17to 29 degrees at night.
02:19That's all for now, thanks for watching and as always you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com
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