Shock US Open final - GN Midday

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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Sunday, September the 7th.

00:09Here are the top stories at this hour.

00:12Deadly floods hit Indian Kashmir's main city of Srinagar on Sunday, forcing scores

00:17of residents to flee.

00:19Prime Minister Narendra Modi, meanwhile, arrived in the region to see the devastation firsthand.

00:25Almost 250 people have been killed in the northern Himalayan region and in neighbouring

00:30Pakistan since torrential monsoon rains triggered flooding, landslides and house collapses in

00:36recent days.

00:38Dubai Healthcare City has announced the setting up of the Mohammed Bin Rashid University for

00:43Medicine and Health Sciences and the launch of the Mohammed Bin Rashid University Hospital.

00:49The university will provide both citizens and residents with a range of graduate and

00:54postgraduate programmes.

00:56The university will receive the first batch of students in September 2015.

01:02Libya says a Sudanese military transport plane bound for Tripoli airport had entered its

01:08airspace to supply a terrorist group with ammunition.

01:13Sudan confirmed it had sent a military plane but said it had only carried equipment for

01:18a joint Libyan-Sudanese state border force.

01:23Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militants have beheaded a second Lebanese soldier, the

01:28soldier's mother confirmed.

01:31A spokesman for Lebanon's military said it was still investigating the incident.

01:36Around two dozen more members of the country's security forces remain held captive by militants

01:42after being kidnapped in August.

01:45Sport and Kei Nishikori and Marin Cilic set up a shock US Open final last night as Novak

01:52Djokovic and Roger Federer were dumped out in the semi-finals.

01:57Japan's Nishikori, the 10th seed, became the first Asian man to reach a Grand Slam final

02:03when he swept past seven-time major winner and world number one Djokovic.

02:09He goes on to face Croatian 14th seed Cilic in tomorrow's championship match.

02:15And finally, the weather.

02:16Today's high across the UAE will be 38 degrees Celsius, dropping to 31 degrees at night.

02:23That's all for now.

02:24Thanks for watching.

02:25And as always, you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com