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South Korea's acting leader has ordered an emergency safety inspection of the country's entire airline operations after a plane crashed and killed all but two people onboard at Muan International Airport on Sunday.

The Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 burst into flames as it crash-landed at the airport with just two cabin crew members, who were in the rear of the plane, surviving the crash.

Acting President Choi Sang-mok has asked investigators to promptly disclose their findings to bereaved families.

His request also comes as another Jeju Air flight turned back to Seoul shortly after takeoff on Monday, due to an unidentified landing-gear issue.

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The former US President Jimmy Carter has died aged 100. He died at home in Plains, Georgia. His son said he was "a hero, not only to me but to everyone who believes in peace, human rights, and unselfish love”.

A former peanut farmer, Jimmy Carter became president in the turbulent aftermath of the Watergate scandal, promising never to lie to the American people.

On the international stage he helped broker an historic peace agreement between Egypt and Israel. However he struggled to deal with the Iran hostage crisis and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

After a single term in office, he was swept aside by Ronald Reagan when he won just six states in the 1980 election.

After leaving office Jimmy Carter became a campaigner for international peace, the environment and human rights, for which he was recognised with a Nobel Peace prize.

The longest-lived president in US history, he celebrated his 100th birthday in October 2024.

Sophie Raworth presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Gary O’Donoghue and Tom Bateman in Washington.

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Over the past week, suspected reprisal killings of people from the Alawite community which Syria’s deposed president Bashar Al-Assad belongs to have triggered protests.

Rebels Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham who have formed the de facto government of the country have denied carrying out reprisal attacks, and have promised a general amnesty for members of the former regime.

Tens of thousands of the former regime’s forces have been crowding at HTS centres to surrender. The BBC’s Yogita Limaye has been speaking to them to understand why the regime fell so rapidly, and whether they believe in the promise of amnesty.

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Former US President Jimmy Carter has died aged 100, the centre he founded has confirmed.

The former peanut farmer lived longer than any president in history and celebrated his 100th birthday in October.

The Carter Center, which advocates for democracy and human rights around the world, said he died on Sunday afternoon at his home in Plains, Georgia.

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It has been confirmed that 179 people have died after a plane crashed while landing at an airport in South Korea.

Two surviving crew members were pulled from the debris and taken to hospital.

The Boeing 737-800 flight - operated by airline Jeju Air - had 181 people on board including six flight staff.

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Russia and Ukraine prisoner exchange due 'any day', says official | BBC News

A Ukrainian official has told the BBC they hope a New Year prisoner exchange with Russia will happen "any day".

Petro Yatsenko, from Ukraine's Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War, said negotiations with Moscow over prisoner swaps have become more difficult in recent months since Russian forces began making significant advances on the front line.

There were just 10 exchanges in 2024, the lowest number since the full-scale invasion began.

Ukraine doesn't publish numbers of prisoners of war being held by Russia, but the total is thought to be over 8,000.

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Russia's President Vladimir Putin has apologised to the president of neighbouring Azerbaijan over the downing of a commercial airliner in Russian airspace - but stopped short of saying Russia was responsible.

Putin said the "tragic incident", which killed 38 people, had occurred when Russian air defence systems were repelling Ukrainian drones.

Ukraine's President Volodymr Zelensky said Russia must "stop spreading disinformation" about the strike.

The plane is believed to have come under fire from Russian air defence as it tried to land in the Russian region of Chechnya - forcing it to divert across the Caspian Sea.

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India has mourned one of its longest-serving prime ministers, Manmohan Singh, with a state funeral in Delhi.

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Singh led the country from 2004 to 2014 and was considered the architect of India's economic liberalisation. He died on Thursday aged 92.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was present at the ceremony on Saturday. He has called Singh one of the country's "most distinguished leaders".

Mourners turned out across the capital to pay their respects as Singh's coffin was taken through the city to the cremation grounds.

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One of northern Gaza's last functioning hospitals has been forcibly evacuated by the Israeli military, medics have said.

It comes after dozens of people were reportedly killed in Israeli strikes targeting the area around the healthcare facility.

The head of the nursing department at Kamal Adwan hospital told the BBC that at about 07:00 on Friday, the military gave the administration 15 minutes to evacuate patients and staff into its courtyard.

Israeli troops subsequently entered the hospital and were removing the remaining patients, he said.

The Israeli military said on Friday afternoon that it was carrying out an operation in the area of the hospital, which it called a "Hamas terrorist stronghold".

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South Korea has voted to impeach its acting president Han Duck-soo just two weeks after parliament voted to impeach its President Yoon Suk Yeol.

Prime minister Han took over the role after President Yoon was impeached by parliament following his failed attempt to impose martial law on 3 December.

Han was supposed to lead the country out of its political turmoil, but opposition MPs argued that he was refusing demands to complete Yoon's impeachment process.

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