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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Sunday, November the 30th.
00:08Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:12The white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black teenager in a St. Louis suburb
00:17has resigned.
00:19The decision by Darren Wilson came as activists set out on a 193-kilometer march to protest
00:25the killing of Michael Brown and a grand jury's decision not to indict Wilson.
00:31Pope Francis ends his three-day trip to Turkey today by celebrating an important Orthodox
00:36feast, cementing efforts to heal a 1,000-year-old schism between Eastern and Western Christianity.
00:44He is scheduled to join Bartholomew, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, for the feast
00:50of St. Andrew, patron saint of the Orthodox world.
00:54The initial public offering of Dubai parks and resorts has received robust response from
01:00institutional and retail investors, its chief executive told Gulf News.
01:05Raed Al Noaimi also said Miras was on track for project delivery in October 2016.
01:11The company is planning to raise 2.53 billion dirhams through an IPO, which closed last
01:17week for both institutional and retail investors.
01:22Australian cricket captain Michael Clarke wrote a moving birthday tribute to Philip
01:26Hughes today, calling him the brother he never had as players continued to grieve over his
01:32death.
01:33Hughes, who would have celebrated his 26th birthday today, died Thursday, two days after
01:38he was knocked unconscious by a bouncer while batting in a domestic match at the Sydney
01:44Cricket Ground.
01:46In football, Danny Welbeck returned from injury to maintain Arsenal's recent revival as
01:52the England striker sealed a 1-0 win at West Bromwich Albion.
01:57Struggling Liverpool, meanwhile, got back on track with a 1-0 victory over Stoke.
02:01Robin Van Persie scored only his fourth goal for Manchester United this season as the hosts
02:07cruised to a 3-0 win over Hull at Old Trafford.
02:12After months of leaked images and idle speculation, Disney and Lucasfilm on Friday debuted an 88-second
02:18teaser trailer for the seventh entry into the blockbuster Star Wars franchise The Force
02:24Awakens.
02:26The dark, energetic teaser blasts viewers with classic and slightly altered Star Wars
02:31images such as TIE fighters, X-Wings, droids and the Millennium Falcon.
02:37The film doesn't hit theatres till December 18, 2015.
02:43And finally, the weather.
02:44Today's high across the UAE will be 25°C, dropping to 20°C at night.
02:49That's all for now.
02:50Thanks for watching and as always, you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com