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00:00Good day, welcome to the Gulf News Update for Thursday, September 8th.
00:05Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:07Donald Trump has declared that Russia's Vladimir Putin has been a better leader than US President
00:12Barack Obama.
00:13As a Republican presidential nominee, he used a televised forum to argue he was best equipped
00:18to reassert America's global leadership.
00:20Trump suggested at the event in which he and Democratic rival Hillary Clinton made back-to-back
00:25appearances that US generals had been stymied by the policies of Obama and Clinton, who
00:29served as the Democratic president's first secretary of state.
00:33Apple's new iPhone 7 will be available in the UAE on September 16th.
00:37The new iPhone 7 Plus will have two camera lenses, one to zoom and another for wide-angle
00:42shots, with the camera on both phones designed to handle low-light situations.
00:46It will come in two colours, black and jet black.
00:49The phone will be water-resistant and dust-resistant.
00:52US swimmer Ryan Lochte has been hit with a 10-month suspension following his bogus gunpoint
00:57robbery story during a dunking night out at the Olympics, two separate media reports
01:01said.
01:02Lochte has been suspended until mid-2017, the USA Today newspaper reported.
01:06He would also be banned from next year's world championship in Budapest.
01:10The newly crowned Miss World Japan is hardly a typical Japanese woman.
01:13Being half-Indian is only part of it.
01:15Priyanka Yoshikawa, crowned after outshining more than 6,900 other applicants, has a certificate
01:21in elephant training, teaches English to children, enjoys kickboxing and volunteers as a translator
01:26at medical meetings.
01:27The 22-year-old is now preparing for the worldwide pageant in Washington, D.C. in November.
01:33And finally, the weather.
01:34Today's high across the UAE will be 42 degrees Celsius, dropping to 28 degrees at night.
01:39That's all for now.
01:41But as always, you can get the latest news on GoldNews.com