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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Tuesday, March 12.
00:09Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:12The historic conclave to choose a successor to Pope Benedict XVI begins today with the
00:17world in suspense over a secret election with no clear frontrunner.
00:21The 115 cardinal electors will vote in the first round today to choose the next leader
00:26of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics, with four rounds each on the following days.
00:32The average length of the last nine conclaves was just over three days, and none of them
00:36went on for more than five days.
00:39Lebanon's Maronite Patriarch Bishara Boutros Al Rai will become the first Maronite to elect
00:45a Pope in the Vatican's papal conclave today.
00:48Al Rai was made cardinal by Pope Benedict last November.
00:52The Health Ministry will open two more men's clinics in Sharjah and Umm al-Quwain following
00:56the success of the one inaugurated in Dubai in September.
01:01The clinic in Al-Mohasna in Dubai tests for prostate and colon cancers.
01:05It also treats infertility.
01:08Tunisia's parliament votes on a new government today, formed by Islamist Ali al-Arayed, in
01:13a bid to end a major political crisis sparked by the February 6 assassination of a prominent
01:19opposition leader.
01:21Capsat 2013, one of the region's largest broadcast, digital media and satellite expos, opened
01:27its doors this morning.
01:28The three-day event is expected to attract 840 exhibitors from 54 countries.
01:34Australian captain Michael Clarke defended the team management's decision to suspend
01:39the four players, including vice-captain Shane Watson, for the third test, saying their off-field
01:44stuff has also been unacceptable.
01:48The financial information of 12 big celebrities, including Beyoncé, her husband Jay-Z, Kim
01:54Kardashian and Ashton Kutcher, have been hacked and revealed online by a website.
02:00The website's address, which contains an internet suffix originally assigned to the Soviet Union,
02:05is still live.
02:07It contains the stars' social security numbers, mortgage amounts, credit card and banking
02:12information.
02:14And finally, weather.
02:15The daytime temperature will be 32°C, falling to 14°C at night.
02:19That's all for now.
02:20Thanks for watching and as always, you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com