00:00Good day, welcome to the Gulf News update for Thursday, February the 18th.
00:09Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:11A Syrian national identified from his fingerprints carried out a car bomb attack next to military
00:17buses in the Turkish capital of Ankara that killed 28 people, government media reported.
00:22A claim of responsibility for last night's bombing has not yet been made, but the bomber
00:27was thought to have entered Turkey with refugees from Syria.
00:30Initial signs indicated that the Kurdish militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party
00:35were responsible for the attack, a Turkish security source said.
00:39US President Barack Obama will announce today the dates of a historic visit to Cuba in the
00:44coming weeks, in a powerful sign of the thaw between the former Cold War foes.
00:49It would be the first visit to Cuba by a sitting US president since Cuba's 1959 revolution,
00:54the last American leader to visit the island while in office was Calvin Coolidge in 1928.
01:00Why spend thousands of dirhams on a smartphone when you can get a decent device for the price
01:05of a cup of coffee?
01:06An Indian company has launched the world's cheapest smartphone called Freedom 251 for
01:11251 rupees or about 14 dirhams.
01:14The 4-inch device by Ringing Bells is powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core processor and coupled
01:20with 1GB of RAM and 8GB of storage capacity.
01:24This weekend, you can join the 10,000 people expected to participate at the two-day yoga
01:29festival X Yoga Dubai, an initiative by Dubai Tourism and Commerce Ministry and X Dubai.
01:34Bollywood actress and yoga enthusiast Shilpa Shetty will be part of the main yoga session
01:39on Friday at Burj Park.
01:41The festival will not just provide yoga sessions for practitioners of all levels, but aims
01:46to cover health aspects from detox to meditation.
01:49Bill Cosby has filed a breach of contract lawsuit against a woman whose 2005 sexual
01:55assault accusation led to his recent arrest.
01:58The lawsuit, filed a day before a key hearing in the criminal case against Cosby, names
02:02accuser Andrea Conston, her lawyer, her mother, and the publisher of National Enquirer.
02:08And finally, the weather.
02:09Today's high across the UAE will be 24 degrees Celsius, dropping to 17 degrees at night.
02:14That's all for now.
02:15Thanks for watching.
02:16We will be back with the newscast on Sunday, but you can always get the latest news at
02:20gulfnews.com
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