News Headlines - 26 December 2016

▽Intoxicated man booked on suspicion of causing commotion during flight

Other passengers and American pop singer Richard Marx helped overpower the unruly passenger, who is known to have consumed 2 1/2 shots of liquor and got drunk during the flight. They bound him with a rope before police took him into custody upon the flight's arrival at the airport... Marx, best known for his 1989 hit "Right Here Waiting," held a Seoul concert in June this year for the first time in 21 years.

▽1,600 Hongkongers stranded in Japan by severe weather flown home | South China Morning Post

More than 1,000 Hongkongers left stranded for days after a severe winter snowstorm swept through northern Japan and cancelled Christmas for many of them have returned to Hong Kong overnight.

▽Japan's youngest pro shogi player beats its oldest top player in debut match | The Japan Times

Sota Fujii, a second-year junior high school student, defeated 76-year-old Hifumi Kato on Saturday in Tokyo. Kato holds ninth dan, the highest ranking in the Japanese chess-like board game.

▽World's first solar panel road opens in Normandy village | The Guardian

It cost €5m (￡4.2m) to construct and will be used by about 2,000 motorists a day during a two-year test period to establish if it can generate enough energy to power street lighting in the village of 3,400 residents.

▽The best films of 2016 ... that you probably didn't see | The Guardian

Guardian staff compile a list of overlooked films of the past year, including Isabelle Huppert’s overshadowed hit, the scariest horror film and a farting corpse