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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Monday, January the 26th.
00:09Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:12India celebrated its 66th Republic Day with a display of military might and cultural diversity
00:19in the national capital, with US President Barack Obama joining as chief guest.
00:24The ceremonies began with a tribute to soldiers who have died for the country.
00:28The parade included marching troops, military bands, a show of tanks, missiles and other
00:34military hardware, and camel-mounted paramilitary troops.
00:38A 54-year-old British woman died on Sunday morning after her car plunged six floors of
00:44a multi-storey parking building in Ahudavi.
00:47The victim had reportedly accelerated by mistake instead of hitting the brakes, causing her
00:52to fly over the metal fence on the parking ledge and consequently fall to the ground
00:57in her SUV.
01:00Greece awoke to a new era of defiant anti-austerity after voters handed a decisive victory to
01:07radical left party Syriza, putting the country on a collision course with the EU and international
01:12creditors.
01:14In a result that exceeded analysts' expectations, Syriza and its 40-year-old leader Alexis
01:20Tsipras won 149 seats in the 300-seat Greek Parliament, just two short of an absolute
01:27majority, with most of the votes counted.
01:31Defending champion Stan Wawrenka avenged his early exit at last year's French Open, beating
01:37Guillermo GarcÃa López to book his seat in the Australian Open quarterfinals.
01:43Women's top seed Serena Williams beat Spain's Garbine Muguruza to set up a Final Eight clash
01:49with last year's finalist Dominika Subulkova of Slovakia.
01:55Kevin Spacey picked a rather unusual place to celebrate his Best Actor Screen Actors
02:00Guild Award on Sunday night.
02:02He was on stage at the Sharjah Institute of Theatrical Arts.
02:07Instead of collecting his second big win this season for House of Cards in Los Angeles,
02:12the actor attended the final day of a theatre programme he helped launch in the Emirate.
02:17The learning programme, called Homegrown, is an initiative by the Kevin Spacey Foundation
02:23to help emerging artists through scholarships and grants.
02:27And finally, the weather.
02:28Today's high across the UAE will be 24 degrees Celsius, dropping to 14 degrees at night.
02:34That's all for now.
02:35Thanks for watching.
02:36And as always, you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com