00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Sunday, September the 4th.
00:06Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:08Dubai is creating a 47 million square feet mini city right in the heart of Jumeirah and
00:14featuring some of the most advanced transportation infrastructure the city has seen to date.
00:19The development of Jumeirah Central will be led by Dubai Holding and will eventually be
00:24home to 35,000 residents, three shopping malls and features such as aerial gondolas.
00:31This was first announced by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President
00:36and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, on Saturday.
00:40Mother Teresa was made a saint of the Roman Catholic Church today, just 19 years after
00:45her death.
00:47Pilgrims streamed into St. Peter's Square, the Vatican, ahead of a service to honour
00:52the nun and Nobel Peace Laureate, who worked among the world's neediest in the slums of
00:57Kolkata.
00:58Her legacy complements Pope Francis' vision of a humble church that strives to serve the
01:04poor.
01:05The US is sceptical an agreement with Russia to decrease violence in Syria can work but
01:10will keep pursuing it nonetheless, President Barack Obama said today.
01:15Obama, speaking on the sidelines of the Group of 20 Economic Summit in China, said the US
01:20and Russia still have grave differences about what's needed to end Syria's civil war.
01:27Bangladesh has executed a tycoon and top financier for the largest Islamist party for war crimes,
01:33dealing a major blow to its ambitions in the troubled country.
01:37Mir Qasim Ali, a key leader of Jamaat-e-Islami, was hanged late Saturday after being convicted
01:44by a war crimes tribunal of murder and abduction during the 1971 War of Independence.
01:52In sport, Serena Williams sped past another milestone Saturday en route to the US Open
01:57fourth round.
01:58Meanwhile, men's contenders Andy Murray and Stan Wawrenka clawed their way into the last
02:0416.
02:06Police did not find guns or drugs during a search of singer Chris Brown's mansion.
02:11Before his arrest on allegations he threatened a mortal at gunpoint, his lawyer said.
02:16Attorney Mark Garagas said he was present during the search and police did not find
02:21evidence to corroborate the accuser's story.
02:25Bailey Curran told reporters that Brown pointed a gun at her face after he and another man
02:30became angry with her when she admired the man's diamond necklace.
02:35And finally, the weather, today's high across the UAE, will be 42 degrees Celsius dropping
02:39to 29 degrees at night.
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