Twelve boys and their football coach trapped in a Thai cave are alive, but will need to learn to dive or wait months for flooding to recede before they can get out, the army says.
The group had been missing for nine days before they were found by divers late on Monday on a small dry ledge.
Rescuers are now battling rising water to bring more supplies to the group.
They may need to have food sent in for at least the next four months, according to the military.
Two British rescuer divers who had flown over to join the search operation found the boys on Monday night.
The video of that first contact was posed on Facebook by Thai Navy SEAL special forces.
The boys are seen by torchlight sitting on a ledge above water, responding to the divers that all 13 were there and that they were very hungry.
They ask how long they have been underground and whether they can leave now. The divers tell them they have to wait, but say people will come back for them.
One boy replies: “Oh. See you tomorrow.”
The search for the group had gripped the nation as it was unclear where they were or whether they even were still alive.
Families of the missing group were ecstatic at news of the rescue.
The Tham Luang cave complex in Chiang Rai in northern Thailand is regularly flooded during the rainy season which lasts until September or October.
If the children are to be brought out before then, they will have to learn basic diving skills.
But experts have cautioned that taking inexperienced divers through the dangerous corridors of muddy, zero-visibility waters would be a very dangerous operation.
Attempts to pump the water levels lower have so far not been successful.
If they are to wait until the water recedes by itself, it would mean the boys will have to stay in the cave for months and have to be continuously supplied with food and assistance.
Specially trained doctors will go in to carry out medical checks in the coming days to establish their condition and treat possible injuries.
Other teams are still scouring the mountainside in the hope of finding another way in to the cave
The 12 boys are all members of a local football team, the youngest of them only aged 11.
The 25-year old coach who got trapped with them is known to have taken them on occasional excursions and field trips.
Archbishop Philip Wilson sentenced for concealing child sex abuse
A Catholic archbishop in Australia has been given a maximum sentence of 12 months in detention for concealing child sexual abuse in the 1970s.
Philip Wilson, now archbishop of Adelaide, is the most senior Catholic globally to be convicted of the crime.
He was found guilty by a court last month of covering up abuse by a paedophile priest in New South Wales.
On Tuesday, the court ordered Wilson to be assessed for “home detention” – meaning he will probably avoid jail.
Magistrate Robert Stone said the senior clergyman had shown “no remorse or contrition.”
He will be eligible for parole after six months.
Wilson has not resigned as archbishop, despite relinquishing his duties in the wake of his conviction.
In May, a court found he had failed to report his colleague James Patrick Fletcher’s abuse of altar boys to police.
Wilson, then a junior priest in the Maitland region, had dismissed young victims in a bid to protect the Church’s reputation, Magistrate Stone ruled.
Fletcher was convicted of nine child sexual abuse charges in 2004, and died in jail two years later.
During his trial, Wilson denied that he had known about Fletcher’s actions.
The archbishop’s lawyers had sought to have the case thrown out on four occasions, citing the 67-year-old’s diagnosis with Alzheimer’s disease.
One of his victims, former altar boy Peter Creigh, told the court he had described the abuse to Wilson in detail in 1976, five years after it took place.
Magistrate Stone rejected Wilson’s claims that he had no memory of the conversation, and said he had found Mr. Creigh to be a reliable witness.
Another victim, who cannot be named, testified that Wilson had told him he was telling lies, and to recite 10 Hail Mary prayers as punishment.
Survivors of abuse said they had mixed feelings about the sentence.
One, Peter Gogarty, said it was “probably letting [Wilson] off a little bit too lightly.”
However, Mr. Gogarty said: “We have made history here in Australia.
“The highest-ranking church official to ever be brought to account [for] what we know was a worldwide, systematic abuse of children and the concealment of that abuse.”
Mr. Creigh did not attend the hearing on Tuesday due to health reasons.
But earlier he told the Adelaide Advertiser that “irrespective of the sentencing, the victory was had” in May when Wilson was convicted.
Germany migrants: Interior minister Seehofer will not resign
Germany’s Interior Minister Horst Seehofer says he will not resign, after hours of crisis talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel.
He said the two conservative parties in the governing coalition had agreed on how to prevent illegal migration across the border from Austria.
He had earlier threatened to quit but said tighter border controls had been agreed.
Mrs. Merkel says a good compromise was found, Reuters news agency reports.
Mr. Seehofer leads the Christian Social Union (CSU), the Bavarian sister party of Mrs Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU).
“After intensive discussions between the CDU and CSU we have reached an agreement on how we can in future prevent illegal immigration on the border between Germany and Austria,” Mr. Seehofer told reporters as he was leaving the CDU’s Berlin headquarters.
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Mr. Seehofer was demanding a right to turn irregular migrants away at Bavaria’s border but Mrs. Merkel defended a deal reached with the EU.
They have agreed to a plan for so-called transit centres, from which people who have sought asylum in a different EU country can be sent back to their arrival point, if the other state agrees.
Top CSU officials had said they wanted to stay in government with Mrs. Merkel’s CDU.
Mrs. Merkel got backing from both parties at a parliamentary meeting on Monday.
Mr. Seehofer was not there.
Alexander Dobrindt, leader of the CSU parliamentary group, said “a common destiny proves its worth only when it is challenged.”
He praised 70 years of unity between the two centre-right parties, German media reported.
Bavaria’s CSU Prime Minister, Markus Söder, said “we’re ready for compromises” and “for us now there is no exit from the government.”
The BBC’s Jenny Hill in Berlin says Mr. Seehofer may have overplayed his hand by issuing his ultimatum, only for Mrs. Merkel to return from Brussels on Friday with an EU-wide strategy and bilateral agreements with more than 10 countries.
On Sunday evening, the CDU passed a resolution supporting Mrs. Merkel’s position on migration.
CDU General Secretary Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer said the party believed a European solution was necessary.
Then reports emerged from the CSU that Mr. Seehofer had offered to step down both as party leader and interior minister.
Mr. Seehofer complained that he had held a “conversation with no effect” with Mrs. Merkel on Saturday.
Senior CSU figures, including Mr. Dobrindt, immediately tried to persuade Mr. Seehofer not to quit.
Then early on Monday, Mr. Seehofer announced he had agreed to hold final talks with the CDU as a “concession.”
Harvey Weinstein faces new sex assault charges on third woman
Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein is facing fresh sexual assault charges.
They involve a third woman in a case dating back to 2006, prosecutors say.
The film producer, aged 66, faces life in prison over the charges – one count of criminal sexual act and two of predatory sexual assault.
Mr. Weinstein had already been charged with rape and other sexual crimes in May against two women.
He pleaded not guilty to those charges.
Also, he has previously said via his lawyer that he has never had non-consensual sex.
The new charges are punishable by a minimum sentence of 10 years and a maximum of life imprisonment.
“This indictment is the result of the extraordinary courage exhibited by the survivors who have come forward,” Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance said in a statement. “Our investigation continues.”
He faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted of either of the first offences relating to the first two women.
The identity of one of the women whose accusations prompted the charges has been confirmed by her lawyer.
Lucia Evans, a former actress, had already publicly accused Mr. Weinstein of carrying out a sexual assault in 2004.
The former film producer has been accused of sexual misconduct by more than 70 women, and led to the #MeToo movement, which has seen hundreds of women accusing high-profile men in business, government and entertainment of sexual abuse and harassment.
He faces additional investigations in Los Angeles, London, and by the US federal government.
Mr. Weinstein is currently free on $1m (£751,000) bail.
He has agreed to wear a GPS tracker and to surrender his passport.
Syria war: 270,000 displaced by fighting in south-west
At least 270,000 people have fled their homes in south-western Syria since the military launched an assault on rebel-held areas two weeks ago, the UN says.
Many of those displaced by the fighting in Deraa and Quneitra provinces have headed towards the borders with Jordan and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
But neither country has said it will allow an influx of refugees, sparking fears of a humanitarian crisis.
Government forces have been advancing with the help of Russian air strikes.
Over the weekend, more than a dozen towns and villages reportedly agreed to surrender and accept President Bashar al-Assad’s rule.
More than 130 civilians have been killed since hostilities escalated, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group.
Deraa and Quneitra had been relatively calm for almost a year because of a “de-escalation” agreement brokered by the US and Jordan, which support the opposition, and Russia, a staunch ally of the government.
But Mr. Assad set his sights on regaining full control of the provinces after defeating rebels in the Eastern Ghouta region outside the capital Damascus in April.
UN officials said on Monday that more than a third of the population living in rebel-held south-western Syria had fled their homes in response to the government’s intense air, artillery and rocket strikes as well as clashes on the ground.
“We were expecting the number of displaced in southern Syria to reach 200,000, but it has already exceeded 270,000 people in record time,” Mohammad Hawari, a spokesman for the UN Refugee Agency in Jordan, told AFP news agency.
Up to 70,000 of the displaced are reportedly gathered near the closed Nassib border crossing with Jordan, where many families are being forced to live in makeshift shelters or out in the open, without basic supplies.
