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00:00Good day and welcome to the Golf News update for Tuesday, May the 26th. Here are the top

00:09stories at this hour. India continued to reel under extreme heatwave conditions with the

00:15day temperature soaring to 47 degrees Celsius in the northern and southern states. The death

00:20toll in Andhra Pradesh and Telangada rose to more than 700 with more people succumbing

00:25to heatstroke. Delhi recorded the season's highest temperature at 45.5 degrees Celsius,

00:31five notches above the season's average. At least 13 people died and dozens more were

00:36injured after a freak tornado ripped through the northern Mexican city of Tridad, flipping

00:42over cars and tearing down homes. Among the dead were three children as the whirlwind

00:47damaged an estimated 750 homes in the city across the Rio Grande from Del Rio, Texas.

00:54Bollywood actor Salman Khan has been granted permission to travel to Dubai this weekend

00:58for an awards show. The visit, which will see him perform at the inaugural Arab Indo-Bollywood

01:03Awards at Maidan, will be the 49-year-old's first trip outside India since he was convicted

01:08of killing one man and injuring four in a 2002 hit-and-run in Mumbai. Khan, one of India's

01:14biggest movie stars, applied for permission to travel to the Bombay High Court last week.

01:19He is currently on a five-year suspended sentence pending appeal.

01:24Real Madrid have fired their coach Carlo Ancelotti as the popular Italian paid for a disappointing

01:29season without a major trophy. Ancelotti, 55, had led Real to their 10th elite European

01:36title last season but was sacked after the club finished runners-up to Barcelona in La

01:40Liga and lost to Juventus in the semi-finals of this year's Champions League. Las Vegas

01:46police say there's no active homicide investigation of the death of B.B. King, despite claims

01:51by two of the Blues legend's heirs that King's two closest aides poisoned him. Daughters

01:56Karen Williams and Patty King allege King's business manager Laverne Toney and his personal

02:01assistant Myron Johnson hastened their father's death.

02:06And finally, the weather today's high across the UAE will be 39 degrees Celsius, dropping

02:10to 28 degrees at night. That's all for now. Thanks for watching. But as always, you can

02:15get the latest news on golfnews.com

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