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00:00Good day.
00:06Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Monday, February the 1st.
00:08Here are the top stories of this hour.
00:11Dubai International Airport saw through more than 78 million passengers in 2015, enough
00:17to retain its title of the world's busiest airport for international passengers.
00:21Dubai Airport said today that a total of 78,014,838 passengers passed through the airport in the
00:2812 months, a 10.7% increase on the 2014 numbers.
00:33Dubai International's closest rival, London's Heathrow, handled 69.8 million international
00:38passengers and a total of 74,959,000 passengers, including domestic, in 2015.
00:46Dubai Airport's chief executive, Paul Griffiths, said $1.2 billion Concourse D, which will
00:51be part of Terminal 1, will open this quarter.
00:55Novak Djokovic has a new goal for the year, to add the only Grand Slam title missing from
01:00his cabinet so far, the French Open.
01:02It's the one I never won, Djokovic said, after winning his record sixth Australian
01:07Open, but already casting an eye towards Paris.
01:11Chelsea captain John Terry will leave the Premier League champions at the end of the
01:15season after the club he had served since the age of 14 told him it would not be renewing
01:21his contract.
01:22The 35-year-old central defender, the most successful captain in Chelsea's history,
01:27was informed about the decision before last week's 1-0 league win over Arsenal.
01:33Heavy metal pioneers Black Sabbath have postponed two shows on what they say will be their final
01:38tour after frontman Ozzy Osbourne fell ill.
01:41Black Sabbath scrapped plans to play over the weekend in Edmonton and announced that
01:45the band would also push back another Canadian show scheduled for tonight in Calgary.
01:50The band said in a statement that it was postponing the shows as Osbourne suffers
01:54extreme sinusitis and that the concerts would be rescheduled with dates to be announced
02:00later.
02:01And finally, weather.
02:02Today's high across the UAE will be 24 degrees Celsius, dropping to 17 degrees at
02:06night.
02:07That's all for now.
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