Japanese FM Fumio Kishida said the sides have agreed on how to define what constitutes a "civilian contractor" at an American base.

Pakistan’s defence minister Khawaja Mohammad Asif sent a warning to Israel on Twitter that “Pakistan is a nuclear state too.”

Still, several aviation experts noted factors that could suggest a terror attack, such as the crew's failure to report any malfunction.

Karabakh Defense Army troops refrained from retaliating to continue controlling the situation along the entire line of contact.

Heading into the Boxing Day clash against Sunderland at Old Trafford, United are sixth in the table and 13 points adrift of leaders Chelsea.

Jaunt is now available on every major VR platform including; PlayStation VR, iOS, Android, Gear VR, Google Daydream, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive.

The Tu-154 plane went down after taking off from the southern city of Adler where it had been refuelling, a defence ministry spokesman said.

Illumination-Universal’s animated comedy “Sing” easily led the rest of the pack on Christmas Eve with a solid $7.9 million.

The carrier group earlier in the day passed 90 nautical miles south of Taiwan's southernmost point via the Bashi Channel.

The effort to defuse the bomb only started around 1400 GMT due to a larger than expected number of bedridden or disabled people.