00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News update for Monday, December 26. Here are the top
00:07stories at this hour. A pilot error or a technical fault is likely to be the cause of Sunday's plane
00:12crash over the Black Sea. All 84 passengers and 8 crew members on the Russian military's TU-154
00:19plane are believed to have died when it crashed two minutes after taking off from Russia's Sochi.
00:24The passengers included dozens of singers in Russia's world-famous military choir.
00:29Chelsea's Antonio Conte and his Manchester City counterpart Pep Guardiola are among the Premier
00:35League managers who will sample England's Boxing Day football extravaganza for the first time
00:39today. Altogether, 16 teams were gearing up for matches as part of a custom that stretches back
00:44over 150 years. With Chelsea's six points clear at the summit and chasing a 12th consecutive win,
00:51Conte is approaching the visit of Bournemouth with a spring in his step. Madonna and Elton
00:55led tributes from around the world for British pop star George Michael, who died at his home
00:59near London aged 53. Michael shot to fame with the 1980s band Wham and sold more than 100 million
01:06albums in his career, winning two Grammys and three Brit Awards. Referring to him by his nickname
01:12Yorg, yours only George, Wham co-star Andrew Ridgley said he was heartbroken by Michael's
01:17death. Many reactions referred to the spate of music world deaths in 2016, starting with David
01:22Bowie in January. Singers Prince and Leonard Cohen also died this year and status quo guitarist Rick
01:28Parfait passed away on Saturday in a Spanish hospital. And finally, the weather. Today's
01:33high across the UAE will be 28 degrees Celsius, dropping to 17 degrees at night. That's all for
01:39now. Thanks for watching. But as always, you can get the latest news on gulfnews.com.
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