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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Monday, May the 18th. Here are the top
00:10stories at this hour. Three people died and 53 people were injured
00:15in a bus accident on the Al Ghaifat-Abu Dhabi highway on Saturday. All the deceased and
00:21the injured are Dubai-based Indians who are returning from Saudi Arabia after performing
00:26Umrah, relatives of the victims told Gulf News. At least nine biker gang members were
00:32killed in Texas when a brawl between rival groups erupted into a deadly gun battle in
00:38front of terrified families. Police told reporters in Waco that they were
00:43amazed that none of the people eating lunch in nearby restaurants were wounded in the
00:47crossfire as members of five gangs fought in a parking lot with guns, clubs, knives
00:53and chains. In sport, Barcelona claimed their fifth La
00:58Liga title in seven years as Lionel Messi scored the winner in a 1-0 victory at Atletico
01:04Madrid on Sunday night. Exactly a year to the day since Atletico won the league, the
01:09Catalans exacted some measure of revenge to seal the first of a potential treble of trophies
01:15this season. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan made her first Cannes
01:192015 appearance on Sunday night, marking her 15th year at the annual event. She wore
01:26a sea-green Elisaab gown to the premiere of the Cate Blanchett film, Carol. On Tuesday,
01:32she will present the first look at her big-screen comeback, Jazba, a thriller directed by Sanjay
01:39Gupta. Taylor Swift dominated the Billboard Music
01:42Awards with eight wins, including Top Artist, while Kanye West was booed during his performance
01:49that closed the three-hour event. Swift also won Top Billboard 200 Album for 1989 and Top
01:57Female Artist on Sunday night. She owned the night with wins for Top Hot 100 Artist and
02:03the fan-voted Artist Achievement Award. And finally, the weather. Today's high across
02:08the UAE will be 36 degrees Celsius, dropping to 27 degrees at night.
02:13That's all for now. Thanks for watching. And as always, you can get the latest news
02:16at gulfnews.com