After days of denial - and mounting evidence - on Saturday Iran admitted it had shot the Boeing plane down "unintentionally". Here is what we know. On 8 January, at 06:12 local time (02:42 GMT ...

As recently as Friday, Iran was insistent that the plane had not been shot down. "The thing that is clear to us and that we can say with certainty is that this plane was not hit by a missile ...