00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Sunday, September the 13th.
00:09Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:12Internet users could end up being sentenced to jail for at least six months or pay a fine
00:17between 150,000 and 1 million dirhams if they are not cautious enough while surfing the
00:23web.
00:24The Abu Dhabi Judicial Department has warned residents against visiting websites that feature
00:30inappropriate content such as child pornography, reiterating that both users as well as these
00:36websites are constantly monitored by local authorities to ensure that UAE's security
00:42is never undermined.
00:44The department said UAE authorities continue to compile names of users who visit these
00:49websites and document the date and time of the visits.
00:54Veteran socialist Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader of Britain's Labour opposition in a
00:59landslide victory that puts an anti-austerity figure at the helm of a major UK party.
01:06The 66-year-old won after clinching 59.5% of the vote, giving Britain its most left-wing
01:13leader in decades among the main parties.
01:16In his victory speech, Corbyn slammed Prime Minister David Cameron's centre-right Conservatives
01:22for presiding over grotesque levels of inequality and for creating an unfair welfare system.
01:29In sport, Floyd Mayweather earned a unanimous decision over Andre Berto yesterday to claim
01:36his 49th and potentially final victim in a glittering unbeaten ring career spanning two
01:42decades.
01:43The American welterweight world champion later confirmed that he was retiring.
01:49Lionel Messi celebrated the birth of his second son by coming off the bench to score the winner
01:53as Barcelona came from behind to claim a 2-1 win away at Atletico Madrid.
02:00Real Madrid remained two points behind Barca at the top of the table after Cristiano Ronaldo
02:06became the club's all-time leading scorer in La Liga with five goals in a 6-0 rout of
02:12Espanyol.
02:14Tom Cruise had flown the same 1960s-era plane which killed two of his crew members on Friday.
02:21Photos of the actor sitting in the cockpit of the US-registered plane and standing with
02:26veteran Hollywood pilot Alan Perwin outside the aircraft have circulated for days in social
02:33media.
02:34Perwin and Venezuelan Carlos Berle died while another American, Jimmy Lee Garland, survived.
02:41All were experienced pilots, although it's not clear which of the three were in command
02:45of the plane at the time of the crash, an official said.
02:48The film crew were filming Mina, which stars Cruise as American pilot Barry Seal.
02:54And finally, the weather.
02:55Today's high across the UAE will be 40 degrees Celsius dropping to 32 degrees at night.
03:01That's all for now.
03:02Thanks for watching.
03:03And as always, you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com
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