Daily headlines from the UAE and around the world brought to you by Gulf News. Zsa Zsa Gabor dies at 99. Over 1,000 leave rebel Aleppo in new evacuation. Hundreds arrested in Venezuela cash chaos. Miss Puerto Rico crowned Miss World 2016. Marc Anthony and wife Shannon de Lima divorcing
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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Monday, December 19. Here are the top
00:06stories at this hour. More than 1,000 people were evacuated from
00:09the last rebel-held pocket of Syria's Aleppo early today after hours of delay. More than
00:1530 buses packed with people had waited overnight in freezing temperatures to leave Aleppo under
00:20a complex evacuation deal. The UN Security Council will vote tonight on a French-drafted
00:25resolution to quickly deploy UN observers to Aleppo, with Russia cautiously backing
00:31the measure. Zaza Gabor, the jet-setting Hungarian actress
00:34and socialite who helped invent a new kind of fame out of multiple marriages and jaded
00:38wisdom about glamorous life, died Sunday at the age of 99. Gabor had been hospitalized
00:43repeatedly since she broke her right hip in July 2010 after a fall at her Los Angeles
00:48home. The great-aunt of Paris Hilton and a spiritual matriarch to the Kardashians and
00:52other tabloid favorites, Gabor was the original Hall of Mirror celebrity, famous just for
00:57being famous. Security forces have arrested more than 300 people during protests and lootings
01:02over the elimination of Venezuela's largest currency bill, President Nicolas Maduro said
01:07on Sunday. Venezuela pulled the 100 BolÃvar note last week before new bills were in circulation,
01:12creating a national cash shortage on top of a brutal economic crisis. After two days of
01:17unrest, Maduro on Saturday postponed the measure until January 2.
01:21Puerto Rico's Stephanie Del Val was crowned Miss World 2016 on Sunday, winning the top
01:27prize in the 66th edition of the pageant held this year in the United States. The first
01:32runner-up was Yaritza Miguelina Reyes Ramirez of the Dominican Republic. Indonesia's Natasha
01:37Manuela took third place. Grammy-winning singer Mark Antony and his wife announced Sunday
01:42that they are divorcing after a two-year marriage. A decision to end the marriage was made mutually
01:47by Antony, a New York-born singer of Puerto Rican roots, and Shana Del Lima, a Venezuelan
01:51model. And finally, the weather today is high across the UAE, with 26 degrees Celsius dropping
01:56to 17 degrees at night. That's all for now, thank you for watching. As always, you can
02:00get the latest news on golfnews.com.