00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Tuesday, June 13. Here are the top stories
00:08at this hour.
00:10British Prime Minister Theresa May headed into difficult talks with a hardline Northern
00:14Irish party on securing a working majority.
00:18May will hope to secure a deal to prop up her minority government when she meets Arlene
00:22Foster, head of Northern Ireland's ultra-conservative Democratic Unionist Party.
00:28May's Conservatives unexpectedly lost their majority in Parliament in last week's snap
00:33general election, unleashing political chaos ahead of Brexit talks with the European Union.
00:39Uber's original A-team is being dismantled, signalling that the era of the boys' club
00:44at the top is all but over.
00:46On Monday, Emil Michael, senior vice-president for business who was CEO Travis Kalanick's
00:51second-in-command, left the company.
00:54His departure followed a series of scandals that have rocked the company this year, forcing
00:59its board to call an investigation into Uber's culture and business practices.
01:04Kalanick himself is weighing a three-month leave of absence from the company, which he
01:08helped found.
01:09Rapper and music producer Sean Diddy Combs was named the world's highest-paid entertainer
01:14on Monday. He ousted pop singer Taylor Swift, who fell to 49th place on the Forbes annual
01:20list.
01:21Beyoncé moved into the second spot with $105 million, courtesy of her best-selling
01:26Lemonade album and world tour.
01:29British author JK Rowling, at $95 million, moved back into the top three.
01:34And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 40 degrees Celsius, dropping
01:40to 29 degrees at night.
01:42That's all for now, thanks for watching. And as always, you can get the latest news on
01:46gulfnews.com
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