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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News update for Tuesday, December 22. Here are the top

00:09stories at this hour.

00:12The suicide attack on US troops that killed six near Afghanistan's Bagram airport was

00:17the deadliest assault on international forces since August. Two US troops and an Afghan

00:23were also wounded when the bomber rammed an explosive-laden motorcycle into a joint NATO-Afghan

00:29patrol on Monday. The soldiers were targeted as they moved through a village near Bagram

00:34airfield, the largest US military facility in Afghanistan.

00:39A small paramilitary plane carrying 10 people crashed just outside the main airport in India's

00:44capital, killing all on board. The plane, belonging to India's Border Security Force,

00:50crashed into the boundary wall at the airport and landed in a small body of water. Part

00:55of the plane was submerged underwater. The cause of the crash of the Super King aircraft

01:00was not immediately known.

01:03New Zealand captain Brendan McCullum is to retire from international cricket. The 34-year-old

01:08batsman has confirmed that the two test series against Australia in February will be his

01:14last. McCullum is second on the Kiwis' all-time test run scorers with 6,273 runs from 99 matches,

01:22including 1100s. Kane Williamson will captain New Zealand at the World 2020 in India, which

01:29starts on March 8.

01:32Four of the top five best-value Hollywood actors are women, according to a New Forbes

01:37magazine report, which will fuel the debate over gender pay disparity in the world's best-known

01:42film industry. Mila Kunis, Scarlett Johansson, Gwyneth Paltrow and Emma Stone all make the

01:48top five best actors for the Buck 2015 list. Jennifer Lawrence, recently ranked the highest

01:55paid female actor by Forbes, lands in eighth place. The best-value actor of all, according

02:01to Forbes, is Captain America star Chris Evans.

02:05And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 24 degrees Celsius, dropping

02:10to 16 degrees at night.

02:12That's all for now. Thanks for watching. But as always, you can get the latest news on

02:15GirlFriends.com.

02:18And I'll see you next time.

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