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00:00Good day, welcome to the Golf News Update for Monday January 27th. Here are the top
00:09stories at this hour.
00:11Dubai Tram began its trial run on Sunday for a distance of 2.5km in Dubai Marina. A batch
00:17of 11 carriages arrived in Dubai last month and the trial began following a month-long
00:21technical testing inside the depot. The trial runs will continue daily while passenger operations
00:26are expected to start this November.
00:29Dubai is planning to build retirement homes that will provide full-time medical care to
00:32its residents. There will be several housing options including independent retirement homes,
00:36assisted living homes and nursing homes. Marwan Abdin, CEO of Healthcare City, told Golf News
00:41that the homes will be open for everyone, including expatriates.
00:45Tunisia will hold a new signing ceremony for a new constitution that was approved last
00:49night. Members of Tunisia's National Constituent Assembly voted overwhelmingly to approve its
00:54new constitution, completing a two-year drafting process.
00:59Syrian negotiators reached their first deal in peace talks in Geneva last night, an agreement
01:03to allow women and children to escape the siege of rebel-held districts in the city
01:07of Homs. A relief corridor will be opened up today, the UN envoy and mediator Lakhdar
01:13Brahimi said last night.
01:15The managing director of India's Tata Motors died after falling from a hotel room in Bangkok
01:21in what police said could be a possible suicide. Karl Slim had attended a board meeting of
01:26the carmaker's Thailand unit and was staying with his wife on the 22nd floor of a hotel.
01:32Hotel staff found his body on Sunday on the fourth floor.
01:36Sport and the top four teams in the Premier League will face each other after Manchester
01:39City were paired last night with Chelsea and Arsenal were drawn to play Liverpool in the
01:43FA Cup fifth round.
01:45In tennis, Australian Open winner Stan Wawrinka doubts he will ever vault to the levels of
01:49the four men who have dominated Grand Slam over the past decade, despite winning his
01:53first major yesterday.
01:56Entertainment and French electro duo Daft Punk took the top two prizes at the Grammys.
02:00Hip-hop duo Macklemore and Ryan Lewis were meanwhile named Best New Artist at Music's
02:04version of the Oscars. New Zealand teen songstress Lorde won the Best Song for her mega-hit Royals,
02:09while Justin Timberlake won three awards, including Best Music Video.
02:14And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 26 degrees, Celsius dropping
02:18to 14 degrees at night.