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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Monday, December 30. Here are the top

00:09stories at this hour.

00:11Formula One legend Michael Schumacher was in coma after a skiing incident in the Alps

00:15in France, according to media reports.

00:18The 44-year-old seven-time world champion German suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and

00:23was in a severe head coma when he was transferred to University Hospital Centre of Grenoble

00:28in France. The hospital said in a statement that Schumacher required an immediate neurosurgical

00:34operation.

00:35Barrels packed with explosives and dropped from Syrian aircraft have killed 517 people

00:41in the northern province of Aleppo since 15 December, activists say. The Syrian Observatory

00:46for Human Rights says 151 were children and 46 women.

00:50Saudi Arabia pledged $3 billion to bolster Lebanon's armed forces in a challenge to the

00:55Iranian-allied Hezbollah militia's decade-long status as Lebanon's main power broker and

01:00security force. Lebanese President Michel Suleiman revealed a Saudi gift on Lebanese

01:05national television Sunday, calling it the largest aid package ever to the country's

01:09defence bodies.

01:11Egyptian police have arrested three journalists working for the Al Jazeera broadcaster in

01:15the capital, Cairo. They include the TV network's Cairo bureau chief Mohamed Fadel Fahmy and

01:21former BBC correspondent Peter Grest.

01:24The Interior Ministry said the journalists had held illegal meetings with the banned

01:27Muslim Brotherhood. Fifteen people were killed in a bombing that destroyed a packed trolley

01:32bus in the southern Russian city of Volgograd. It's the second attack in the city in two

01:37days after a suicide strike on its main train station.

01:40Occupancy in Abu Dhabi's hotels and hotel apartments climbed 10 per cent to 83 per cent

01:44in November over the same period in 2012, bringing the total number of arrivals to date

01:50to over 2.5 million, the Abu Dhabi Tourism and Cultural Authority said.

01:55Fast and Furious actor Tyrese Gibson confirmed that the Abu Dhabi shoot for Fast and Furious

01:597 will go ahead starting January 2014. Tyrese spoke to Tabloid on a red carpet in Dubai,

02:05where he is celebrating his birthday today.

02:08And finally, weather. The daytime temperature will be 22 degrees Celsius, falling to 14

02:12at night.

02:13That's all for now. Thanks for watching. And as always, you can get the latest news

02:17at CULTURE NEWS.COM

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