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00:00Good day.
00:07Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Tuesday, March the 19th.
00:10Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:13Syria's opposition national coalition has chosen a prime minister to head a government
00:17for rebel-held regions.
00:19Ghassan Hitto is a Damascus-born IT expert who spent decades in the U.S.
00:24Meanwhile, the U.S. and France have denounced a Syrian airstrike on the Lebanese border,
00:29calling it a violation of its sovereignty.
00:32Reports from Lebanon say Syrian aircraft fired four rockets at the border between the two
00:36countries near the Lebanese town of Arsal on Monday.
00:41Taxi passengers report lost items, mostly mobile phones, 20 to 30 times a day, to the
00:46Dubai Taxi Corporation.
00:48Acting CEO Ahmad Al-Hamadi said the items are largely traced within 5 to 20 minutes.
00:54In 2012, more than 12,800 cases were reported, with 40 percent of the items being recovered.
01:02World leaders have flown in for Pope Francis' Inauguration Mass in St. Peter's Square, where
01:07Latin America's first pontiff will receive the formal symbols of papal power.
01:12Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to attend the mass.
01:16India has cut its main interest rate to 7.5 percent from 7.75 percent.
01:22It is the second cut in three months as India looks to boost its economic growth, which
01:26has dropped to the weakest pace in 15 quarters.
01:30Sport has a new power couple.
01:32Tiger Woods and Lindsay Vonn confirm their dating.
01:35Two months after rumors began circulating in Europe, Woods and Vonn posted separate
01:39items on their Facebook pages to announce their relationship.
01:43Lindsay Lohan isn't headed back to jail, but she won't be free to party for a while either.
01:48The troubled 26-year-old actress accepted a plea deal in a misdemeanor car crash case
01:53that includes 90 days in a lockdown rehabilitation facility that she won't be able to leave.
01:59And finally, weather.
02:00Today's daytime temperature will be 37 degrees Celsius, falling to 20 at night.
02:05That's all for now.
02:06Thanks for watching.
02:07And as always, you can get the latest news at Girlfriends.com.