00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Monday, May the 15th. Here are the top
00:06stories at this hour.
00:08His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister
00:12of the UAE and ruler of Dubai, has announced the launch of Marsa Al Arab, a tourism project
00:17attached to Medina Jumeirah. On a visit to Dubai holding offices, Sheikh Mohammed revealed
00:22plans to develop two islands, one on either side of the Burj Al Arab. The project will
00:27break ground in June 2017 and will be completed by late 2020, at a total cost of 6.3 billion
00:35dirhams.
00:37Employees booting up computers at work today could see red as they discover they're victims
00:41of a global ransomware cyber attack. The WannaCry worm has created chaos in 150 countries and
00:48could wreak even greater havoc as more malicious variations appear. As a global network of
00:53cybersecurity experts fought the hackers, they also urged companies worldwide to update
00:59older Microsoft operating systems immediately.
01:02Al-Houthi rebels have declared a state of emergency over a deadly outbreak of cholera
01:07that has spread rapidly in the Yemeni capital. The Al-Houthi-run health ministry said cases
01:12of cholera has worsened and that it was unable to contain the disaster.
01:18In sport, the fight for the La Liga title will go down to the last day of the season
01:23After convincing wins for Real Madrid and Barcelona on Sunday, the wins left both teams
01:28locked together on 87 points at the top of the table.
01:32The District of Columbia has won back-to-back Miss USA titles. Kara McCullough, a 25-year-old
01:38scientist for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, was crowned Sunday on the Las
01:42Vegas Strip. Fifty-one women representing each state and the nation's capital participated
01:48in the decades-old competition.
01:50And finally, weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 41 degrees Celsius, dropping
01:54to 28 degrees at night.
01:56That's all for now. Thanks for watching! And as always, you can get the latest news
02:00at gulfnews.com
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