00:00Good day, and welcome to The Gulf News Update for Monday, May the 8th.
00:06Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:08Emmanuel Macron was elected French president with a business-friendly vision of Europe integration,
00:14defeating Marie Le Pen, a far-right nationalist who threatened to take France out of the European Union.
00:20The centrist's emphatic victory, which also smashed the dominance of France's mainstream party,
00:26will bring huge relief to European allies who had feared another populist upheaval to follow Britain's vote to quit the EU
00:33and Donald Trump's election as US president.
00:36Ray Gamble has been appointed as the interim chief executive for Etihad Aviation Group,
00:41board of directors, replacing James Hogan, the current president and group CEO,
00:46who will step down starting July 1st.
00:49Ricky Therrien will assume full responsibilities of the group's CFO, replacing James Rigney,
00:55who will also leave the company on July 1st.
00:58Argentine football legend Diego Maradona has been appointed as the new coach of UAE second division side Fugera.
01:06These are my new colours, Maradona, who's 56 years old,
01:10wrote on his Facebook page along with a picture of himself holding the club's red and white jersey,
01:15with his name and number 10 on the back.
01:18The 1986 World Cup winner was in charge of the Argentina national team from 2008 to 2010.
01:25He then spent a year with another UAE side, El Bosal, between 2011 and 2012.
01:32Film hit Beauty and the Beast and Netflix newcomer Stranger Things were the night's big winners with two trophies apiece,
01:39as MTV partied with its Movie and TV Awards show.
01:43For this, the 26th edition of what was formerly known as the MTV Movie Awards, TV was added to the mix.
01:50Stranger Things was decreed the show of the year,
01:53and its cast member Millie Bobby Brown was named Best Actor in a Show.
01:58Beauty and the Beast was the movie of the year, with its star Emma Watson the Best Actor in a Movie.
02:06And finally weather.
02:07Today's high across the UAE will be 42 degrees Celsius, dropping to 30 degrees at night.
02:12That's all for now, thanks for watching.
02:14And as always, you can get the latest news at Gopinus.com
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