Authorities in Kazakhstan are investigating the cause of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash in the country, which killed 38 people and injured 29 others on Christmas Day.
The big picture: Flight J2-8243 was diverted while en route from Baku, Azerbaijan's capital, to Grozny in southern Russia.
Azerbaijan has demanded that Russia admit its guilt over a Christmas Day plane crash that killed 38 people, the country's President Ilham Aliyev said on Sunday.
The big picture: Russian President Vladimir Putin apologized to Aliyev for the Azerbaijan Airlines crash occurring in Russian airspace, but a Kremlin statement made clear he wasn't accepting responsibility for the incident.
A severe storm system that's killed at least four people as it unleashed multiple tornadoes was moving into parts of the central-southern Appalachians, Mid-Atlantic and Southeast on Sunday.
The big picture: Dozens of tornadoes were reported across Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina and Texas over the weekend, causing delays and some cancelations at airports across the region during a busy weekend of holiday travel.