Thousands of mourners again waited through the night for a chance to see Pope Francis&s remains before the lying-in-state ends on Friday evening.

How can anybody have supported Donald Trump in the first place? Looking back, all the signs were there. The Capitol Hill insurgency of January 6, for one thing; the fondness for Vladimir Putin for another. The embrace of norm violation on a scale never previously seen. The relentless post-truth improv that characterised his public rhetoric.

Final mourners were in a queue for their last chance to see Pope Francis&s remains ahead of his funeral mass on Saturday morning.

A small police plane crashed into the sea near a popular beach town in Thailand, killing at least five people on board, officials said.