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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Monday, December the 15th.

00:24Here are the top stories at this hour.

00:26An armed assailant was holding an unknown number of hostages in a central Sydney cafe

00:31on Monday, shutting down Australia's largest city.

00:35Six hours after the mid-morning siege began, television showed five hostages running out

00:41of the Lindt Chocolate Cafe and sheltering behind a heavily armed SWAT team.

00:46Police said it was not known exactly how many more hostages remained in the cafe, but it

00:52was not as high as the 30 or 40 that had been reported earlier.

00:56The remaining hostages were being held by at least one armed assailant, police said,

01:02but did not rule out that others could be involved.

01:06A carbon-curbing deal struck in Lima on Sunday was a watered-down compromise where national

01:12intransigence threatened the goal of a pact to save Earth's climate system, Green Groups

01:18said.

01:19The hard-fought agreement sets out guidelines for the submission of national greenhouse

01:23gas pledges next year, WWF's climate expert Samantha Smith said.

01:30Against the backdrop of extreme weather in the Philippines and potentially the hottest

01:34year ever recorded, governments at the UN climate talks in Lima opted for a half-baked

01:40plan to cut emissions.

01:43In sport, Stephen Smith will captain Australia's test team for the rest of the series against

01:48India, Cricket Australia said today.

01:51He replaces Michael Clarke, who suffered a serious hamstring injury during the first

01:56test against India in Adelaide on Saturday.

02:00A medical student from South Africa has been crowned Miss World 2014.

02:06Rolene Strauss, a 22-year-old, bested 120 contestants to win the coveted crown at a

02:12glitzy ceremony in London, watched by an estimated 1 billion television viewers across

02:18the world.

02:19Miss Hungary was judged the runner-up and Miss United States came third in the 64th

02:25annual competition.

02:27And finally, the weather.

02:28Today's high across the UAE will be 28 degrees Celsius, dropping to 18 degrees at night.

02:34That's all for now.

02:35Thanks for watching.

02:36And as always, you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com

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