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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Wednesday, October the 8th.
00:09Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:12Philip Spence, the Briton who admitted to battering three Emirati sisters with a claw
00:16hammer in their London hotel suite on April 6th, stood trial Tuesday in a UK court for
00:22attempted murder.
00:24The intention of their attacker was to kill the women, prosecutors said at the court.
00:29Spence denies he had any intent to murder the sisters.
00:34Turkey's president said Tuesday the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani was about to fall as
00:40Daesh fighters pressed home a three-week assault that has cost a reported 400 lives.
00:46The prospect of the town being captured by Daesh has increased pressure on Turkey to
00:51join an international coalition to fight against the militants.
00:55But Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey was also pressing Washington for more airstrikes.
01:02Doctors in Spain hospitalised four more people and rushed to identify dozens of others at
01:07risk after a nurse was infected with a deadly Ebola virus.
01:12The European Union demanded answers about how the disease spread in a specialised disease
01:18unit while health staff protested over safety failures.
01:23The US is set to announce tightened controls on international travellers to prevent the
01:27virus from spreading, health officials said.
01:31The third quarter of 2014 saw continued growth of the Abu Dhabi residential market, with
01:37sales prices rising by 6%.
01:41A report by real estate consultancy Jones Lang LaSalle says that prices reached nearly
01:4716,000 dirhams per square metre in the UAE capital, while rents for prime residential
01:53units remained stable at 150,000 dirhams per annum.
01:59Cricket and Australia's promising all-rounder Stephen Smith cracked an elegant century to
02:04steer his team to a 93-run victory in the first one-day international against Pakistan
02:10at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium Tuesday night.
02:13Australia posted a challenging 255-for-8 in 50 overs thanks to Smith's 101, while Pakistan
02:21was bowled out for 162.
02:24New York police have opened an investigation into allegations actor Stephen Collins molested
02:31a teenage girl in the early 1970s.
02:34An NYPD spokesman said the complaint was filed in 2012, accusing Collins, the star
02:40of Family Series 7th Heaven, of forcing a then-14-year-old girl to commit a lewd act
02:47in the actor's Manhattan apartment in 1972.
02:52And finally, the weather.
02:53Today's high across the UAE will be 36 degrees Celsius, dropping to 29 degrees at night.
02:58That's all for now.
02:59Thanks for watching.
03:00And as always, you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com.