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00:00Good day and welcome to the Golf News Update for Sunday, December 28. Here are the top
00:23stories at this hour. In the third air incident connected to Malaysia this year, an AirAsia
00:28plane with 162 people on board went missing this morning while flying over the Java Sea.
00:34The disappearance of flight QZ8501 came after it took off from a provincial city in Indonesia
00:40for Singapore. The two countries immediately launched a search and rescue operation, but
00:44there was no sign of the plane more than seven hours after it lost contact with ground control.
00:49AirAsia said in a statement that the missing Airbus A320-200 was on the submitted flight
00:54plan route. However, it had requested deviation due to weather before communication with the
00:59aircraft was lost while it was still under the control of the Indonesian Air Traffic
01:03Control. Motorists driving in dedicated bus and taxi lanes in Dubai will be fined 600
01:09dirhams starting January 1. The Dubai Roads and Transport Authority has installed surveillance
01:14cameras on the routes of dedicated bus and taxi lanes to catch the violators. Offences
01:19will be reported either automatically through surveillance cameras or manually through Dubai
01:23police patrols. In sport, ace Pakistan spinner Saeed Ajmal has announced he will not feature
01:29in next year's World Cup after he failed to completely correct his bowling action which
01:33led to his suspension three months ago. The 37-year-old Ajmal appeared before a Pakistan
01:38cricket board committee on Saturday before taking the decision. Virat Kohli and Ajinkya
01:44Rahani both scored centuries in the third test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground today,
01:48but India still trail Australia by 68 runs with just two first innings wickets remaining.
01:53The tour is closed on 462 for 8 with Kohli scoring 169 and Rahani contributing 147.
02:01Actress Jennifer Lawrence is the most bankable actress in Hollywood thanks to her films The
02:05Hunger Games, Mockingjay Part 1 and X-Men Days of Future Past which grossed a total
02:10of $1.4 billion worldwide. Lawrence topped the list of the highest grossing actors in
02:14Hollywood by Forbes magazine. The next star on the list is Chris Pratt followed by Scarlett
02:19Johansson and Mark Wahlberg. And finally the weather. Today's high across the UAE will
02:24be 24 degrees Celsius dropping to 18 degrees at night. That's all for now. Thank you for
02:29watching. As always, you can get the latest news on golfnews.com