Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
1. GEORGE MICHAEL DIES OF HEART FAILURE AT 53
He was blessed with sensual good looks and an exquisite voice, attributes he used to become first a teenybopper heartthrob and then a mature solo artist.
2. WHAT RUSSIA’S JET CRASH PROBE FOCUSES ON
As the nation holds a day of mourning for the 92 victims, a minister says a pilot error or a technical fault – not terrorism – is likely to be the cause of the tragedy.