00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Tuesday, May 12. Here are the top stories
00:09at this hour.
00:10A strong earthquake shook Nepal today, sending people in Kathmandu rushing out onto the streets
00:15weeks after a devastating quake killed more than 8,000 people. The US Geological Survey
00:20said the quake had a magnitude of 7.1 and struck 68 km west of Namche Bazaar, close
00:26to Mount Everest. Shock waves were felt as far away as the Indian capital New Delhi
00:31and throughout northern India.
00:34Radars across the streets of Dubai will soon begin catching tailgaters, a top official
00:38has said. The new device, called Al-Burj radars, will record motorists who fail to keep a safe
00:43distance between other vehicles in the same manner they record speed violations, said
00:47Dubai Police Chief Major General Qamish Al-Mazaina.
00:51A blogger was hacked to death by magic-wielding attackers in Bangladesh today, the third killing
00:56of a critic of extremism in the nation in less than three months. Ananta Bijoy Das,
01:01a 33-year-old banker who blogged on secularism, was attacked by four assailants this morning,
01:06police officials said.
01:08In sport, Kevin Peterson was told by New England chief Andrew Strauss he will not play for
01:12his country again, just hours after blasting a career-best 3.26 not out.
01:18The exiled batsman surpassed his previous first-class best of 2.54 in a mammoth innings
01:23for Surrey at the Oval. But according to the BBC, Strauss met Peterson and confirmed
01:28that he would not be allowed back into the national team.
01:32Tom Hanks' next film, about a Google-like internet monopoly that renders privacy obsolete,
01:37will be financed by Abu Dhabi's Image Nation. It was announced in Cannes ahead of the film
01:42festival starting there on Wednesday.
01:44The adaptation of Dave Eggers' novel The Circle has been written and will be directed by James
01:49Ponceau and is being produced by Hanks, among others. It also stars Alicia Vikander, while
01:54shooting will start in August in California.
01:57And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 38 degrees Celsius, dropping
02:01to 29 degrees at night.
02:04That's all for now. Thanks for watching and as always you can get the latest news on gulfnews.com
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