Suspects paraded. GN Midday Monday Mar 18 2013

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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Monday, March 18. Here are the top stories

00:10at this hour.

00:12Police in central India have paraded a group of men on television who were arrested over

00:17the gang rape and robbery of a Swiss cyclist who was assaulted while on a holiday with

00:21her husband. Five men, all farmers aged between 20 and 25, were wearing jeans and shirts and

00:27had their faces covered with black cloth when they were lined up at a police station late

00:32Sunday in Dhatia district of Madhya Pradesh state.

00:35The UAE Ministry of Interior has warned people against pledging their passports to take loans

00:40from private lenders, for it can land them in deep trouble as it is against the law.

00:45Syria's opposition coalition meets in Istanbul today to select their first rebel prime minister,

00:51tasked with running daily life in latched swaths of territory freed from regime control

00:55but mired in chaos and poverty.

00:58Italy's ambassador to New Delhi, who was ordered last week to remain in India amid

01:02a row over two Italian marines charged with murder, faces a tense hearing in the Supreme

01:07Court today. Daniel Mancini had personally negotiated the release on bail of the two

01:13marines.

01:14Asian markets fell sharply following a 10 billion euro bailout plan for Cyprus. Investors

01:19piled into safer assets, including the US dollar and gold. Cyprus is the fourth EU country

01:25to receive a sovereign bailout.

01:28Tennis and Rafael Nadal continued his impressive comeback from injury with a three-set victory

01:33over Joan Martin Del Porto in the final of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells.

01:39British rock icon David Bowie has reconquered his home charts by scoring his first number

01:44one album in 20 years with Next Day. Bowie broke a decade-long musical silence in January

01:49when he unveiled a new single, Where Are We Now?

01:52And finally, weather. The daytime temperature will be 37 degrees Celsius, falling to 20

01:57at night.

01:58That's all for now. Thanks for watching. And as always, you can get the latest news

02:02at gulfnews.com.

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