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Star Wars hits $1 billion - GN Headlines
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2/12/2025
Daily headlines from the UAE and around the world brought to you by Gulf News. UK floods. New Year's celebrations. Dubai Safari Park. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv
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Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News update for Monday, December the 28th. Here are the
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top stories at this hour.
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British Prime Minister David Cameron sent hundreds more troops into northern England
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to help exhausted residents and emergency workers fight back rising river waters that
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have inundated towns and cities after weeks of heavy rain. Cameron said the flooding is
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unprecedented and vowed to do everything possible to protect people and their property
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as the damage spread to the major cities of York, Leeds and Manchester.
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New Year's Eve revelers can access free bus shuttles from dozens of locations around the
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downtown Dubai area, where 5,000 additional parking slots have been made available to
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ease congestion in the vicinity of Burj Khalifa and Dubai Mall, the Roads and Transport Authority
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has said.
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More than 170 shuttle buses will operate around the clock from locations such as Zabeel Park,
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Al-Wasl Club, Dubai World Trade Centre and others to Dubai Mall and back on December
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31st, January 1st and 2nd. Burj Khalifa metro station will be closed from 10pm onwards on
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December 31st.
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It's full steam ahead for Dubai's new zoo with Safari Park expected to open by mid-2016
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Covering a total area of 119 hectares at a cost of 150 million dirhams, the zoo is expected
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to open its doors to the public within the third quarter of next year.
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The new zoo will be home to almost 1,000 animals from around the world and out of those, there
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will be more than 350 species of rare and endangered animals.
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Star Wars The Force Awakens has reached $1 billion at the box office, reaching the milestone
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with record-setting hyper speed.
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The Walt Disney Company said The Force Awakens crossed the billion-dollar mark on Sunday,
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accomplishing the feat in just 12 days.
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The previous movie to reach $1 billion, the fastest, was Universal's Jurassic World, which
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did it in 13 days in June.
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And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 25 degrees Celsius, dropping
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to 18 degrees at night.
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That's all for now. Thanks for watching. And as always, you can get the latest news on
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Gulfnews.com
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