At least 26 people were injured,
four seriously, when turbulence hit a China Eastern Airlines flight from
Paris on Sunday, state media reports.
The turbulence struck as flight MU774 was on its way to Kunming, in the southern Yunnan province.
Passengers suffered broken bones, cuts to the scalp and soft tissue injuries, the Xinhua state news agency reported.
China Eastern Airlines later said it was crucial passengers wear seatbelts as flights descend.
"I
was on the flight, and I felt like I would not survive," the Hong Kong-
based South China Morning Post quoted one passenger as saying on the
Weibo microblogging site.
"Many people were injured, and among them, many had not buckled up."
Xinhua said (in Chinese) that two violent bumps and many small bumps occurred over about 10 minutes.
It
said that during the turbulence, several passengers' heads and
shoulders collided with the luggage racks, some luggage racks broke from
the impact, and some luggage fell off the racks and hit customers.
The airline said on its Weibo account (in Chinese) that the Airbus A330, that had taken off from Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport, landed safely in Kunming.
The
pilot reported problems with the engine of the plane, another Airbus
A330, about one hour after taking off. Passengers told media they smelt
something burning inside the aircraft.
South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said the man had swum across a
particularly narrow part of the fast-moving river after attaching foam
to his shoulders to help him stay afloat.
Last week, a North Korean soldier walked across the heavily-guarded border that separates the countries.
Soldiers had previously been defecting at the rate of about one a year.
The
latest defector, thought to be in his early twenties, was spotted at
Gimpo, just west of the southern capital Seoul, Yonhap news agency reported.
He screamed "Don't kill me, I am here to defect", at a South Korean marine who had seen him, Yonhap said.
The soldier will now be questioned by military officials.
North
and South Korea are technically still at war, since the conflict
between them ended in 1953 with a truce, not a formal peace treaty.
Seoul
says more than 30,000 North Koreans have defected to the South since
the end of the Korean War, the majority via China, which has the longest
border with the North.
Government staff have been drafted in to bolster the official response to the Grenfell Tower disaster in west London.
The move follows widespread criticism of the local council's performance.
Residents
condemned the relief effort as "absolute chaos" and complained that
Kensington and Chelsea Council had provided little support or
information.
The council said it would cooperate "in full" with
the government's inquiry into the fire, in which at least 58 people are
believed to have died.
Many have been left homeless by the massive fire that engulfed the 24-storey block of flats on Wednesday.
Police fear the number of the dead could increase. The BBC understands the death toll could rise to about 70 people in total.
As part of the new move by the government, a team of civil servants has been embedded into the council office.
Other
measures outlined by the prime minister following a meeting with
residents on Saturday, included more staff covering phone lines and
ground staff wearing high-visibility clothing so they could be easily
found.
At the scene
By BBC reporter, Mark Lobel
The residents here are now telling us the volunteers are at breaking point.
There are expected to be government civil servants down here, on the ground, helping out.
Whether
they are in hi-vis jackets or whether they are meant to be replacing
the volunteers, there has been no sign of them so far.
I've been
speaking to residents, speaking to people who've been here all morning,
I've been speaking to the police and they haven't noticed a change yet.
The Home Office said it was making arrangements for the family of civil engineering Mohammed Alhajali, who died in the fire, to travel from Syria to the UK for his funeral.
Questions
continue to be asked about why the fire spread so quickly, with some
suggesting new cladding fitted during a recent refurbishment could have
been to blame.
Chancellor Philip Hammond said a criminal
investigation would examine whether building regulations had been
breached when the block was overhauled.
The public inquiry set up
by the government following the tragedy would also examine if rules had
been broken, he told BBC's Andrew Marr Show.
Asked whether the government had revised building regulations, as
recommended by a coroner, following another deadly fire in south London
tower block in 2009, Mr Hammond said the government had responded "correctly and appropriately" to the recommendations.
He said if the public inquiry found something needed to be done to make buildings safe, it would be done, he added.
Asked
about his council's poor response, leader Nicholas Paget-Brown said
staff were "working closely" with the government, charities, volunteer
and resident groups and the emergency services to help re-house and
assist those affected.
"People rightly have questions about the causes of the fire and why it spread so quickly and these will be answered," he said.
Labour
leader Jeremy Corbyn told ITV's Peston on Sunday that the council
seemed to "lack the resources to deal with a crisis of this magnitude",
despite being the country's "wealthiest borough".
'Suspicion'
Meanwhile,
Labour MP David Lammy, whose friend Khadija Saye is among the dead, has
called for urgent action to make sure all documents relating to the
refurbishment and management of the Grenfell Tower fire are protected.
After speaking to residents, he said: "Suspicion of a cover-up is rising.
"We
need to make sure that the emails, minutes of meetings, correspondence
with contractors, safety assessments, specifications and reports are not
destroyed," he added.
Theresa May has also come in for a barrage of criticism over her own response to the disaster.
On
Friday, she was jeered on a visit to the North Kensington estate, and
protesters marching on Friday and Saturday called for her resignation.
First Secretary of State Damian Green defended the prime minister, saying she was as "distraught as we all are".
So far in the investigation:
Six victims have been provisionally identified by police
IS media outlets say the militants have foiled an advance by
Iraqi troops to advance into one neighbourhood and carried out dawn
attacks on federal police positions.
Iraqi forces have told the BBC that they do not know how many IS militants are holed up inside the Old City.
About
230 civilians have been killed in western Mosul in the past two weeks,
the UN says, some in air strikes and rocket attacks, and others shot
dead by IS snipers as they tried to flee.
Residents who have
recently escaped from the area have described desperate conditions, with
many people running out of food and water.
The beginning of the end - BBC Middle East producer Joan Soley
Different
parts of the Iraqi security forces have been creeping closer on all
sides. They will not be able to stop now until they have taken back all
of the Old City.
Although Iraqi and coalition sources have said
there is a "humanitarian corridor" running out of the city along the
river, the sheer number of people still inside means there will
inevitably be significant casualties - civilians, Iraqi forces and IS
fighters.
For the Iraqi government, retaking the Old City is akin
to crossing the finish line. The powerful image of IS leader Abu Bakr
al-Baghdadi speaking inside its Nuri mosque three years ago is one they
are desperate to replace with a picture of "victory" - whether that
means Iraqi flags and forces taking selfies at that same spot or blowing
the mosque to smithereens.
Afterwards there will still be
fighting to be done. The area between Mosul and the Syrian border has to
be secured and the town of Hawija, between Baghdad and Mosul, remains
under IS control.
Escape from west Mosul - Nafiseh Kohnavard, BBC Persian
We were in contact with three families inside a house right next to
an IS sniper position. They had no more food or water. Among them were a
woman who was nine months pregnant and elderly people.
They
feared that their house would be bombed. A nearby house had already been
hit. We passed their address to the US-led coalition, which located it
on a grid to avoid striking it. Federal police worked on a plan to get
them out.
Overnight the exhausted families told us they were on
the point of giving up hope. But they used a nearby explosion and the
smoke and dust as cover from the IS sniper and reached safety.
The
US-backed offensive to retake Mosul - Iraq's second city - is now in
its ninth month. Iraqi forces retook the eastern part of the city in
October.
Thousands of Iraqi security forces, Kurdish Peshmerga
fighters, Sunni Arab tribesmen and Shia militiamen, assisted by US-led
coalition warplanes and military advisers, are involved in the offensive
IS
overran Mosul in June 2014, routing the Iraqi army, and shortly
afterwards declared it was establishing a caliphate over the territory
it then controlled.
A catastrophic forest fire in Portugal has claimed at least 57 lives, officials say.
Most
died while trying to flee the Pedrógão Grande area, 50 km (30 miles)
south-east of Coimbra, in their cars, according to the government.
Several firefighters are among the 59 people injured.
"Unfortunately
this seems to be the greatest tragedy we have seen in recent years in
terms of forest fires," said Prime Minister Antonio Costa.
The death toll could rise further, he said.
Secretary
of State for the Interior Jorge Gomes said that 30 of those who died
were found inside cars, with another 17 next to the vehicles, on one
road leading on to the IC8 motorway.
Media in Portugal said the fire is no closer to being contained despite about 600 firefighters working to put it out.
Among
the 59 injured was an eight-year-old girl with burns found wandering
alone close to the fire, the Correio do Manhã newspaper reported.
Six firefighters are seriously wounded, national broadcaster RTP said, and two are reported missing.
The
Correio do Manhã warned that many areas hit by the fire had not yet
been reached by authorities, so the death toll was likely to increase.
About 60 forest fires broke out across the country overnight, with close to 1,700 firefighters battling them across Portugal.
The flames spread "with great violence" on four fronts near Pedrógão Grande, Mr Gomes said.
Spain
has sent two water-bombing planes to help tackle the fires, and the
European Union is co-ordinating an international firefighting and relief
effort.
It is not yet known what caused the fire, however Mr Costa said thunderstorms could have been one possible cause.
Portugal has been experiencing a heatwave, with temperatures of more than 40C (104F) in some areas.
"This
is a region that has had fires because of its forests, but we cannot
remember a tragedy of these proportions," Valdemar Alves, the mayor of
Pedrógão Grande, was quoted as saying by the Associated Press agency.
"I am completely stunned by the number of deaths."
What happens next? Alison Roberts, BBC News, Lisbon
We
have had large-scale fires before over the past couple of decades -
this year is not unusual in that respect - but it is certainly unusual
to have so many fatalities in one place. Portuguese officials are
visibly shocked.
There were very particular circumstances with the
lightning strikes here - this fire started with a dry lightning strike.
There has been rainfall elsewhere but there was no rain there, and this
is a heavily-forested area.
Getting it under control depends not
only on temperatures, which do seem as though they will be high, but on
the wind above all. It is very much in the hands of Mother Nature.
Everyone in frame is smiling and laughing in the North Korean cold. Otto Warmbier, like the other tourists, launches a snowball, captured in slow motion on what appears to be a camera phone.
It's the kind of innocent fun you expect to be captured on a tour group holiday. Otto turns to his right, mouth wide open, laughing.
"This is the Otto I know and love. This is my brother," wrote Austin Warmbier, who released the video, which was shot during a three-night North Korea tour at the end of 2015.
Two months later, Otto would again appear on video, but in very different circumstances.
Head bowed and clutching a prepared "confession", the 21-year-old student walked out in front of North Korean TV cameras to speak, explaining why he had been arrested at the end of that tour, when everyone else had been allowed to leave.
Looming over him were the oversized portraits of North Korea's former supreme leaders, Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il.
He wore a cream-coloured jacket and tie. Before speaking, he got up an offered a low bow.
Otto thanked the North Korean government for the "opportunity to apologise for my crime, to beg for forgiveness and to beg for any assistance to save my life".
He said he tried to steal a propaganda sign from a hotel as a "trophy" for a US church with the "connivance of the US administration" in order to "harm the work ethic and motivation of the Korean people".
Later, he would break down in tears: "I have made the single worst decision of my life, but I am only human."
Otto is now back in the US after 15 months of captivity in North Korea. But he is in a coma, cannot understand language and has severe brain damage.
In the year-and-a-half since he threw that snowball, the life of a young man full of promise has been permanently altered.
Much remains unknown about how Otto's health deteriorated. Doctors at Cincinnati Medical Center say they have seen no sign he was physically abused but they and his family also don't buy North Korea's story that he contracted botulism and fell into a coma after taking a sleeping pill.
But how did a brilliant student from an Ohio suburb with hopes of becoming an investment banker end up imprisoned in a pariah state? And why was he released in a coma?
Homecoming king
The Warmbiers hail from a small suburb called Wyoming in Cincinnati, Ohio, where father Fred owns a small company.
Otto attended the best high school in the state, and was prom and homecoming king.
He was not only popular but also studious - he graduated as Salutatorian (the second-highest ranking student in his year) - and a talented athlete. His football coach has said he was a gifted player and a natural leader.
Otto went on to study economics and commerce with a minor in global sustainability at the University of Virginia and flourished there, according to the Washington Post.
The newspaper interviewed Otto's classmates at their graduation ceremony in May, where #FreeOtto stickers were handed out. The 22-year-old was in his third year of university when he was detained in North Korea. This should have been his graduation too.
Friends described him as a "sports fan who can reel off stats about seemingly any team, a friendly Midwesterner who can break down underground rap lyrics (and craft some of his own), a deep thinker who would challenge himself and others to question their place in the world, a guy from an entrepreneurial family who ate half-price sushi, an insatiably curious person with a strong work ethic and a delight in the ridiculous," the paper reported.
Otto is said to have known long before his college peers what he wanted to pursue as a career: investment banking.
According to his LinkedIn profile, he sat on the committee of a student investment fund and travelled to London in 2015 to complete a course in advanced econometrics at the London School of Economics.
His studiousness - and interest in travel - were what took him to Asia. Otto had been set to study at a university in Hong Kong on a study abroad programme in January 2016 and decided to stop in North Korea on the way.
He went through a China-based company called Young Pioneer Tours, which boasts of providing "budget travel to destinations your mother would rather you stayed away from".
'They decided to take an American'
Danny Gratton, from Staffordshire in the UK, shared a room with Otto during the three-night trip - they were the only two members of the tour group who were there on their own.
"From the second I met him we hit it off. He was very bright, intelligent and likeable," he told the BBC.
The night Otto is said to have tried to take the sign from within a staff-only area of the 1,000-room Yanggakdo International Hotel was New Year's Eve 2015, the second night of the tour.
Earlier, the group had taken a trip to the border with South Korea before returning, having a meal and taking a coach to Pyongyang's main square, where there was a big fireworks display. They had food and drank beer, Mr Gratton said.
However there was no rowdy behaviour - "It wasn't that sort of holiday," Mr Gratton said. "We toed the line." He said there was "no indication at all" that Otto had taken the hotel propaganda sign and he had not mentioned it.
The North Korean government has released grainy video footage showing a dark figure whose face cannot be seen removing a sign in a corridor.
Otto was taken away by guards as the pair went through immigration control at Pyongyang International Airport on 2 January 2016.
Image copyrightAFP/GETTYImage captionOtto is accused of stealing a sign from the Yanggakdo hotel, seen on the left - but Danny told the BBC it "wasn't that sort of holiday". "We toes the line," he said
"We were the last two people to go through passport control. We handed over our passports and the guy pointed at Otto and pointed to the door. Two security guards came over and ushered him away," said Mr Gratton.
"I made an ironic comment. I actually said 'Well we won't be seeing you again'. He sort of laughed at me and that was the last we saw of him.
"They made the decision to take an American. It was just his time, he was in the wrong place at the wrong time."
'Terrorised and brutalised'
Later, once the remaining group arrived in Beijing, one of the tour guides is reported to have spoken to Otto on the phone, who said he had a "severe headache and wanted to be taken to the hospital", the Post reports, citing another passenger.
Image copyrightREUTERSImage captionOtto is transferred from a medical transport plane to an ambulance in Cincinnati
The BBC has contacted Young Pioneer Tours for comment.
North Korea only confirmed that Otto had been arrested weeks later, on 22 January. He gave his televised statement in late February and was given 15 years' hard labour, for crimes against the state, in March.
Observers said the sentence seemed unusually high for a foreigner and could be related to deepening tensions between North Korea and the US over the former's nuclear programme.
It's unclear what happened to Otto between his sentencing and the announcement of his release on 14 June by the US government.
But his father Fred says he slipped into the coma "the day after he was sentenced" - well over a year ago.
Image copyrightREUTERSImage captionOtto's father Fred wore his son's jacket as he spoke to journalists
Speaking at a press conference wearing the same jacket worn by his son on the day he "confessed" in Pyongyang, he said the North Korean government had "brutalised and terrorised" Otto.
North Korea says it released him on "humanitarian grounds".
Intelligence agencies in the North might have kept the state of his health under wraps, including from top officials, out of fear, says Stephan Haggard, director of the Korea-Pacific Programme at the University of California, San Diego.
At some stage, someone would have realised "that the worst of all possible worlds is for the guy to die in custody", kickstarting a frantic diplomatic effort to get him out, he told the AFP news agency.
Image copyrightEPAImage captionLocal businesses in Wyoming have also show their support
Dr Daniel Kanter, one of those looking after Otto in Cincinnati says he is in "a state of unresponsive wakefulness". He has not spoken but has "spontaneous eye opening and blinking", he said.
Respiratory arrest is believed to be the cause of the brain damage, but it remains unclear what caused it. There are no signs that Otto was beaten.
He is breathing on his own but has not spoken and, at the request of the family, doctors will not disclose a prognosis.
His family are happy he is "now home in the arms of those who love him", Fred Warmbier said. When the plane carrying Otto touched down on Tuesday evening, people gathered at the airport cheered.
"It's just been so long that he's been there that to hear he is actually coming home was incredible," his college roommate Emmett Saulnier told CNN before Otto arrived.
He was carried out with a tube attached to his nose, and sent straight to hospital by ambulance.
Image copyrightEPAImage captionDr Kanter (C) says Otto is in a state of "unresponsive wakefulness"
The University of Virginia welcomed his return, but President Teresa Sullivan said the community was "deeply concerned and saddened" to learn of his condition.
"When I knelt down by his side and I hugged him and I told him I missed him and I was so glad he made it home," Fred Warmbier said of what he did when he first saw his son.
"These things are tough to process but he's with us and we're trying to make him comfortable and we want to be a part of his life."
An Afghan soldier has attacked foreign troops at a military base, with a number of US soldiers wounded.
The attack took place at a base in the north of the country on Saturday, an official confirmed to the BBC.
However, a spokesman for the US military command, based in the capital Kabul, dismissed earlier reports American soldiers had been killed.
They did say an unspecified number had been wounded when the Afghan soldier opened fire at Camp Shaheen.
The Nato-led Resolute Support mission said one Afghan soldier was killed and one was injured in the incident, which took place at about 14:00 local time (09:30 GMT).
The camp, in the northern city of Mazar-e Sharif, Balkh province, is the base of the 209th Corps.
