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00:00A five-year-old boy has survived a fall from a first-floor apartment in a building on Hamdan
00:16Street in Abu Dhabi. The child was transferred to hospital immediately after the accident
00:20and his condition is stable, police said. In a first suspected case of the deadly Ebola
00:25virus in India, officials have detained and placed under observation a 25-year-old man
00:30who arrived from the Republic of Guinea at the Chennai airport. He has been kept in the
00:35isolation ward of a local hospital where his health is being closely monitored by a team
00:39of doctors. A small airplane has crashed in a residential area after taking off from Tehran
00:45on Sunday morning, state media reported. The IRNA news agency said the Sepahan airplane
00:51bound for Tabas in northeast Iran crashed soon after taking off from the Mehrabad airport,
00:57killing all 48 passengers and crew. Israel-Gaza cross-border attacks continued this morning
01:02two days after a 72-hour truce ended. A Palestinian delegation in Cairo warned it would leave
01:08if the Israelis did not return to the negotiating table, but the Israelis have refused to participate
01:13in talks. Israeli aircraft bombed 17 targets in the Gaza Strip overnight, a military spokesperson
01:19said. Turks began voting this morning in the country's first presidential election, with
01:24Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan aimed to become the head of state after dominating Turkish
01:29politics for more than a decade. Opinion polls have shown Erdogan to be comfortably ahead of
01:33his rivals, Ekmeleddin Esenoglu. In cricket, India captain Emma Stoney urged his side to
01:39absorb the lessons of their crushing innings and a 54-run defeat in the fourth Test against
01:44England at Old Trafford in time for next week's finale at the Oval. The loss left India 2-1 down
01:50in the five-match campaign. Actor and ex-File star David Duchovny and his actress wife Tia Leone
01:56have divorced after 17 years. The Hollywood couple reportedly filed papers in June, according to TMZ,
02:03with the Californication actor citing irretrievable breakdown of the relationship.
02:08And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 41 degrees Celsius,
02:13dropping to 32 degrees at night. That's all for now. Thank you for watching.
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