A plane carrying about 500 Nigerians deported from the UK has landed in Nigeria's main city of Lagos.
Most of the deportees say they are not happy to come back.
One person told me that he was arrested by British police and was even not allowed to even take his belongings before being deported.
A few of them who say they don't have relatives here are stranded in the airport.
Recently, Nigeria expressed concern over UK's plan to deport 29,000 Nigerians, and has insisted that due process be followed before Nigerians are removed from the UK.
The West African nation says Britain must ensure that those been deported are really Nigerians, medically fit to travel and have a role to play in the country - meaning they should be able to fit into Nigerian society.
The pilot is "alive and well" at a Russian air base in Syria, it says.
His co-pilot and a marine involved in a rescue were killed.
Turkey said the jet had strayed into its airspace but Russian President Vladimir Putin says the plane was flying over Syrian territory.
It is not clear what has happened to the body of the other pilot, who was killed by gunfire as he parachuted from his burning plane.
Tensions have escalated between Russia and Turkey over the incident, but the US, the EU and the UN have all appealed for calm.
President Putin has described the downing of the plane as a "stab in the back", and warned of serious consequences.
Turkey's President Recep Erdogan has defended the action, saying "everyone must respect the right of Turkey to protect its borders", but he stressed he did not want to escalate tensions further.
After Turkey became the first Nato member to shoot down a Russian plane in over half a century, the question now is how will Moscow respond?
President Putin called Turkey an "accomplice of terrorists" and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov cancelled a planned trip to Ankara on Wednesday.
But the UN and Nato have urged both sides to de-escalate the crisis. According to Ankara, the Russian Su-24 was warned 10 times about entering Turkish airspace, though Moscow says there was no such communication.
But Turkey also said the violation lasted just 17 seconds. And given signs that a united front was beginning to form against Islamic State, there will be diplomatic pressure on both sides to focus instead on the common threat from the militants.
The tough talk from Ankara and Moscow will no doubt continue - but whether there will be serious retaliation is less clear.
Russian defence officials say the plane never entered Turkish territory, and that Turkish pilots made no attempt to communicate with the Russians before they fired.
Turkey says it warned them repeatedly before shooting the plane down.
Turkey is a member of Nato and the alliance has backed Turkey's version of events. However, Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said "diplomacy and de-escalation are important to resolve this situation".
Breaking off military contacts with Turkey, Russia has announced fighter jets will now escort its bombers during air strikes over Syria, and Moscow is sending out its most anti-aircraft missile system, the S-400.
Russia and Turkey have found themselves on opposing sides in Syria's conflict, with Russia supporting President Bashar al-Assad, while Turkey is a staunch critic.
The two pilots came under ground fire after they parachuted from their burning plane, Russian defence official Lt-Gen Sergey Rudskoy said.
There had been various reports about the fate of the surviving airman, but Mr Shoygu said Russian and Syrian special forces had managed to rescue him from rebel forces as part of a 12-hour operation.
"The operation ended successfully. The second pilot has been brought to our base. He is alive and well," he was quoted by Ria Novosti state news agency as saying.
Earlier, Lt-Gen Rudskoy also said a rescue team using two Mi-8 helicopters had come under fire and was forced to make an "emergency landing on neutral territory".
"One naval infantryman serving under contract was killed," he said, adding that the rest of the team were safely evacuated to Russia's Humaymim air base near Latakia in Syria.
Syrian rebels say they blew up the helicopter shortly after it landed with an anti-tank missile, releasing footage of the attack.
Russians have been advised not to visit Turkey - a popular tourist destination for Russians - and one of Russia's largest tour operators, Natali Tours, has suspended package holidays there.
There have been loud calls in Russia for economic sanctions and for all flights to Turkey to be cancelled, the BBC's Moscow correspondent, Sarah Rainsford, reports.
A custodian of the church in the Richmond Hill area of Queens popped out for lunch and when he came back he heard a baby crying but could not see anyone around.
After following the wailing to the front of the church he was presented with a scene reminiscent of the nativity - a newborn boy swaddled in towels, lying in the manger.
New York law allows unwanted babies to be dropped off anonymously at a church, hospital, police or fire station without fear of arrest.
But the Abandoned Infant Protection Act provides that the child must be left with someone, or authorities have to be called.
Because that did not happen in this case, police launched a search to track down the boy's parents.
Detectives are scouring CCTV cameras and knocking on the doors of nearby homes to track down whoever left him at the church.
Surveillance video reportedly shows a woman walking inside the church with a baby in her arms before leaving alone.
The boy was taken to Jamaica Hospital, where he weighed-in at 5lb 6oz (2.25kg).
Church pastor Christopher Heanue said: "Let us pray for this child, for his parents, and for whomever will receive him into their home.
"The beautiful thing is that this woman found in this church - which is supposed to be a home for those in need - this home for her child.
"A young couple in our parish would love to adopt this child and keep this gift in our community. It would make a great Christmas miracle."
Sergei Shoigu said the flight engineer was extracted after a 12 hour mission by special forces on the ground in Syria.
He said: "The operation was successful. The engineer was delivered to our airbase, he is alive and well. I wanted to thank all our boys, who were working all night with great risk. At 03.40 am they completed their work."
British-based Syria watchdog Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has said it believes the Russian information to be true and that the airman is back at Russia's Hemeimeem air base, near the city of Latakia.
The Russian ambassador to France claimed the other airman - presumed to be the pilot - was wounded as he parachuted down and killed on the ground by "jihadists in the area".
According to a US official, the jet was hit inside Syrian airspace after briefly entering Turkish airspace.
The unnamed official told the Reuters news agency that the assessment was based on detection of the heat signature of the jet.
But Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has repeated Turkey's claim that the jet was in Turkish airspace at the time it was hit in direct contradiction of the US analysis.
He said part of the damaged plane landed inside Turkey, injuring two civilians on the ground.
President Erdogan said on Wednesday that he has no "intention" of escalating the incident, which has triggered a major diplomatic confrontation.
"We are just defending our security and the rights of our brothers," he said, adding that no one should expect Turkey "to remain silent" when its border security was violated.
Turkish officials said two Russian planes approached the Turkish border and were warned before one of them was shot down, adding their information shows Turkish airspace was repeatedly violated.
NATO said the incursion into Turkish airspace lasted 17 seconds, but Moscow denies the plane ever entered Turkey, providing data of its own as proof.
Russia's president Vladimir Putin on Wednesday accused Turkey's leadership of deliberately supporting Islamification in its country and said Russia was sending its S-400 missile system to Syria to defend its airbase.
But, while speaking to reporters, the Russian ambassador to France added that Russia would be prepared to "create a joint staff" to fight the Islamic State in which Moscow would work with France, the United States and even Turkey.
The downing of the jet is the first time a NATO member's armed forces have shot down a Russian or Soviet military aircraft since the 1950s.
The star had been told that a faulty hereditary gene left her with an 87% risk of developing breast cancer and a 50% risk of developing ovarian cancer.
Women most at risk are those who carry the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genetic faults.
After opting to have a preventive double mastectomy, Jolie wrote in the New York Times: "I decided to be proactive and to minimise the risk as much as I could."
An NHS clinic in Manchester has since attributed a sharp rise in preventive double mastectomies to women being inspired by Jolie's announcement.
Between January 2011 and June 2014 there were 29 procedures carried out at the Genesis Prevention Centre. That rose to 83 between January 2014 and June 2015.
This increase has been dubbed the "Angelina Effect" by researchers.
Professor of clinical genetics at Genesis Breast Cancer Prevention, Gareth Evans, said the rise in mastectomies started around nine months after Angelina spoke publicly.
He said: "While we haven't analysed women's motivations for undergoing this type of surgery, the correlation suggests that if the increased uptake of double mastectomies can be attributed to 'the Angelina effect', the effect has been prolonged and has resulted in both increased referrals to our clinic, and increased rates of preventative surgery."
Chairman of Genesis Breast Cancer Prevention, Lester Barr, said: "We're now confident that Aneglina's story will continue to raise awareness of the BRCA gene mutations and that this increased knowledge particularly among medium and high-risk women, will be passed onto the next generation."
Samia al Qadhi, chief executive of Breast Cancer Care, said: "Angelina's courage in sharing her experiences has highlighted this incredibly important issue.
"The percentage of women ringing our help line to ask questions about family history and breast cancer increased five-fold after she made her announcement."
It's worth remembering that contrary to what you might have thought, the UK's austerity over the first term of George Osborne's Chancellorship was actually about par for the course for the rich world.
As you can see from this chart, the UK's reduction in its cyclically adjusted budget (in other words, borrowing, adjusted for the ups and downs of the wider economy) was about as fast as New Zealand's, and was far less severe than that imposed in, for instance, Spain, the US, Portugal or Greece.
In other words, although George Osborne played up his austerity credentials in his first term, he actually delivered far less in the way of spending cuts than many other developed economies.
:: Austerity Mark II
Source: IMF/Sky News
However, in his second term, the Chancellor is planning far deeper cuts than in any other major economy. This is the big overarching thing to bear in mind about the 2015 Spending Review: it is the moment when Britain embarks on the real austerity.
Although a little more than half of the cuts are now done, Britain will, from hereon, be cutting further and faster than anyone else.
:: DEL vs AME
Source: HM Treasury
Government spending is, for accounting purposes, split into two parts: departmental spending and something called Annually Managed Expenditure (AME).
AME is the stuff the government tends to find it harder to control: welfare spending, debt interest payments - the things it is legally bound to pay.
Normally AME is not covered by these spending reviews, which tend to happen every three years or so. Instead the spending review focuses on departmental spending – Departmental Expenditure Limits (DEL) as they're known.
But here's the thing, in recent years, as welfare and pensions have become more and more expensive, AME (that "uncontrolled" part of government spending) has become bigger than departmental spending.
So the chunk that the Chancellor can actually control is getting smaller and smaller. This is a totally new development, and is another symptom of a bigger problem confronting the Chancellor - the ballooning cost of welfare and pensions.
:: Social Security Spending
Source: House of Commons Library
When people talk about welfare spending, they typically imagine it is largely unemployment benefits for those on the dole.
The reality is that the vast majority of social security spending is on the state pension and other pensioner benefits. And as this chart shows, spending on such things has increased rapidly in recent years.
However, the other fastest growing chunk of benefits spending has been on in-work benefits, especially on tax credits, as you can see from this chart.
The Chancellor's proposals to cut those benefits abruptly have been so unpopular, and have been so directly challenged by the House of Lords, that he is having to change his plans.
So while the spending review was supposed to be purely about departmental spending, it will also come alongside a beefed-up Autumn Statement which is expected to include measures to tone down the severity of those tax credits cuts.
:: Total government spending and receipts since 1948
Source: Office for Budget Responsibility
At the moment the Government spends an annual cash amount equivalent to about 40% of gross domestic product. That is about par for the course based on the past half century or so.
However, the amount the Government gets in tax receipts is considerably lower: about 36% of GDP. It is the gap between these two lines that most concerns Mr Osborne: as long as tax revenues are outpaced by spending, the Government needs to borrow and the national debt increases.
The spending cuts being imposed as part of the spending review are a key part of that story.
But it's worth noting that the fall in public spending as a % of GDP (the blue line) is still slightly more gradual than it was in the early 1980s under Thatcher, and the eventual resting position in 2020 (about 36% of GDP) is still a touch higher than it was during the last Labour government.
Much has changed for Vladimir Putin since the terror attacks in Paris. The trope that aggressions in Crimea and Ukraine show that he is more of a threat
to the West than ISIS was useful to President Obama’s critics, but that’s now older than yesterday’s news. Given the joint French-Russian airstrikes against ISIS in Syria last week, Russia is now a de facto Western ally. Putin the pariah has a shot at redemption, or so it might seem.
Just weeks ago, François Hollande declared that the Russian leader was “not our ally in Syria,” and warned — albeit obliquely — that Mr. Putin should refrain from propping up President Bashar al-Assad’s murderous regime. In August, France canceled the delivery of two Mistral helicopter carriers to Russia, selling them to Egypt instead. But the tables have turned. This week, the French president plans trips to Moscow and Washington to foster Russian-American cooperation in stamping out the Islamic State.
Mr. Putin is a proven master at manipulating emergencies — real or imagined — to get what he wants. Witness how he consolidated his hold on power by skillfully distorting the nature of his domestic critics and has used the threat of extremism to re-centralize Russia’s political system. In essence, he applies his own brand of emergency politics to keeping the country in a near-constant state of alarm; security takes precedence over political, legal and marketplace freedoms.
Until the Paris attacks, the prospects for Mr. Putin’s Middle East adventure were not looking good. Russia was bolstering the Assad regime’s air force, but neither the Syrian Army nor its Iranian allies were showing any real gains against rebels on the ground, and ISIS was not a primary target. Then, on Oct. 31, a Russian passenger jet carrying tourists home from Egypt went down in the Sinai Peninsula. It looked like Mr. Putin had led his nation into a deadly quagmire, and his innocent countrymen were paying the price.
Though the Russians must have known that a bomb had destroyed the jetliner, the Kremlin stopped short of officially declaring a terrorist attack, thereby freeing Mr. Putin from a political obligation to retaliate. Instead, in a difficult logistical operation, some 70,000 Russian tourists were evacuated from Egypt, their luggage sent home separately by military transport. The details were broadcast in news reports that were surreal even by the state-run media’s standards; no political context or reasons for the evacuation were given. Since no one seemed to know the reasons for the crash, the reactions of the victims’ families were generally subdued.
Then, on Thursday, Nov. 12, ISIS suicide bombers struck a Beirut marketplace, killing 43 people. The next day, Paris was hit. Mr. Putin seized the initiative. On Sunday, Nov. 15, he used the G-20 summit meeting in Antalya, Turkey, to meet privately with Mr. Obama and apparently signaled his willingness to compromise on Mr. Assad’s place in the future of Syria. On Monday, Nov. 16, he and Mr. Hollande agreed to coordinated airstrikes against ISIS. On Tuesday, Nov. 17, he announced that the Russian airliner had in fact been downed by a terrorist’s bomb, and vowed vengeance.
