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00:00A top official has denied reports expatriates seeking to sponsor families in Dubai need
00:15to have a minimum salary of 10,000 dirhams.
00:18Major General Mohamed Ahmed Almeri, Director of Dubai's General Directorate for Residency
00:23and Foreign Affairs, said reports in some newspapers claiming an increase in salary
00:27limit to sponsor families in Dubai are inaccurate.
00:31After a long search, Libya's transitional parliament have appeared to finally select
00:35the new prime minister, choosing Ahmed Mateek.
00:38But almost as soon as Mateek was sworn in, lawmakers, who said the vote had been conducted
00:42improperly, challenged his appointment.
00:45It remains unclear whether the caretaker prime minister, whom Mateek was supposed to replace,
00:49is willing to leave his post.
00:51Government officials from Australia, China and Malaysia have pledged not to give up searching
00:56for a Malaysia Airlines jetliner that disappeared almost two months ago, despite lingering questions
01:01about how to proceed and who will pay.
01:04The region's largest travel and tourism fair opened today in Dubai.
01:08The 2014 Arabian Travel Markets will further showcase the achievements and tourism offerings
01:12in Dubai, which gears up to attract 25 million visitors during the World Expo in 2020.
01:19Former British number one tennis player Elena Baltacha has died of liver cancer at the age
01:24of 30.
01:25Born in Ukraine and brought up in Scotland, Baltacha revealed she had the illness in March,
01:29having been diagnosed in January.
01:32In cricket, the Indian Premier League has a doubleheader lined up today, with Rajasthan
01:35Royals playing Kolkata Knight Riders in Ahmedabad, while the Delhi Daredevils take on Chennai
01:40Super Kings in the evening game in New Delhi.
01:43And Spider-Man can still sling it at the box office.
01:45The amazing Spider-Man 2 finally opened in the US with $92 million over the weekend.
01:51The new sequel, which released globally two weeks ago, is also doing huge international
01:55business.
01:56And finally, the weather.
01:57The daytime temperature will be 36 degrees Celsius, falling to 24 tonight.
02:02That's all for now.
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