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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Tuesday, April 8. Here are the top stories
00:09at this hour.
00:11The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has warned Emirati citizens against gangs of thieves
00:15and urged them to be vigilant while travelling abroad. The warning came after three Emirati
00:20women were attacked with a hammer in a London hotel on Monday. One of the women is in critical
00:24condition in hospital. Rashat al-Dahiri, Director of Citizens Affairs at the Foreign Ministry,
00:30said preliminary evidence indicates that the motive was theft.
00:34For the third consecutive year, the UAE has been named as the country in which most Arab
00:38youth would like to live, as well as the country they would most like their own nation to emulate.
00:43The youth picked the UAE as their top choice out of an international list of 20 nations,
00:48trumping even the US, UK, France and Germany, according to the Asda Burson-Mastella Arab
00:53Youth Survey 2014.
00:55Family members of passengers on board Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have held a tearful
01:00vigil in Beijing to mark one month since contact with the plane was lost. Log on to gulfnews.com
01:06to read 30 unanswered questions on the MH370 mystery.
01:11The upward pressure on Dubai's residential rents continues to mount even as new homes
01:16are getting delivered in higher numbers. In the first three months of this year, rentals
01:20were up by 7% over the fourth quarter of 2013. On a year-on-year basis, Dubai's tenants
01:27may have seen a 23% increase on average in what they are paying to their landlords, according
01:32to an update put out by consultant JLL.
01:36Bob Geldof said his family was beyond pain at the death of his socialite daughter Peaches
01:41at the age of 25 on Monday. She was pronounced dead at the scene of her home in Kent, England,
01:47and her death was being treated as unexplained and sudden, but non-suspicious, police said.
01:53No evidence of hard drugs, no suicide note, and no visible signs of injury were found.
01:58And finally, weather. The daytime temperature will be 32 degrees Celsius, falling to 20
02:02at night.
02:03That's all for now, thanks for watching and as always you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com