Georgia announces a full recount by hand of its votes in the US presidential election
US President-elect Joe Biden leads Donald Trump in the traditionally Republican state by about 14,000
Biden announces the teams he will use to ensure a smooth transition in January
Trump still refuses to admit defeat, making unsubstantiated claims of fraud
The two men attend separate ceremonies marking Veterans Day
Trump is projected to win Alaska, giving him three more electoral college votes
But Biden has an unassailable tally of 279 under the electoral college system, BBC projects
Trump appears at Veterans Day event
As we reported earlier, Mr Trump has attended a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia for Veterans Day.
It was his first public appearance since the election. He has so far refused to concede to Democrat Joe Biden.
Anthony Zurcher
BBC North America reporter
We've been asking our readers for their most pressing questions about the US election. Now it's our turn to respond.
Francois, 46, from Quebec, Canada, asks: Is this the end of Trump's active political career or political influence?
The first part of your question is relatively easy. While a defeated Donald Trump would be eligible to seek other elective office or run for the president again in four years, at age 74 it seems probable that his career in public office would come to an end.
The second part is trickier. Over the past four years, Donald Trump has succeeded in taking over the Republican Party and remaking it in his own image. It seems unlikely that the president would just disappear if defeated.
He would still have a highly influential platform on social media. He might even decide to continue holding mass rallies for his supporters or start a conservative media company to rival Fox News.
While there would be some Republicans who might try to take the party in a different direction, Trump's brand of pugilistic conservative populism is already attracting imitators and would-be heirs (some of whom, like Donald Trump Jr, are actual heirs).
As long as Trump commands the devotion of his legions of fans, he will continue to have considerable sway within the party - as a kingmaker and agenda-setter - even if Tuesday's election ends in a resounding defeat for the man himself.
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Image source, ReutersAkaba said he was "saddened by the division being caused by the election"
In an unusual move for a senior Japanese politician, Japan's Land Minister Kazuyoshi Akaba sharply criticised Donald Trump's refusal to admit election defeat - before then deleting his tweet.
"A sitting president making accusations of election fraud and insisting he will 'never give up'. Am I the only one seeing this and thinking, what kind of dictatorship is this? Where has our role model for democracy gone?" Akaba wrote, according to Kyodo news agency.
The politician from the Komeito party, which is in coalition with the Liberal Democratic Party, later told journalists he had deleted it because he did not want it to be "misinterpreted". He said he saw the US as a "frontrunner of democracy" and was "saddened by the division being caused by the election, which is the basis of democracy", Kyodo reported.
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has congratulated Joe Biden on his victory.
Image source, ReutersFacebook has said that its temporary post-election ban on political advertising - aimed at preventing the spread of misinformation - is likely to be extended for another month.
In an email to advertisers, the social media giant said that a four-week extension should be expected, but that there "may be an opportunity to resume these ads sooner".
"While multiple sources have projected a presidential winner, we still believe it's important to help prevent confusion or abuse on our platform," Facebook said in the email, which was seen by Reuters news agency.
Announcing in October that it would stop running all political and social-issue adverts after polls close in the US presidential election, Facebook said it was necessary to "reduce opportunities for confusion or abuse" ahead of official results.
Meanwhile, Google also appears to be extending its ban on political advertising in the US. The tech company confirmed to the Financial Times newspaper that the measure - initially put in place for the duration of a week following the 3 November election - remained in force.
We have reported that Georgia will be doing a full hand recount of its votes for the presidential election.
Georgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger told reporters: "We'll be counting every single piece of paper — every single ballot, every single lawfully cast, legal ballot."
This is what the Trump campaign requested on Tuesday.
Each state has its own recount rules, but in general, the ballots will be re-tallied and re-scanned. In some places, a certain number of ballots are always counted by hand to ensure the validity of the machines.
But recounts have rarely led to a change in the results. It's also important to note that even if Biden loses Georgia, he's still over the 270 vote threshold.
Georgia's state deadline for certifying election results is 20 November.
The Trump campaign earlier said it would also be requesting a recount in Wisconsin.
Columbia University Law School professor Richard Briffault told the BBC there was a recount in Wisconsin in 2016 as well, and it changed a few hundred votes.
Image source, ReutersDonald Trump has made his first public appearance since the election, participating in a Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington military cemetery near Washington.
As heavy rain fell, he saluted the tomb before walking forward and touching a large wreath. He was accompanied by his wife Melania and Vice-President Mike Pence and his wife.
In remarks posted to his Twitter feed, external, Trump said he had "relentlessly fought to support America's veterans".
"I have worked tirelessly to improve the health, welfare, and economic prosperity of these treasured people," the statement said.
President-elect Joe Biden meanwhile commemorated Veterans Day in Philadelphia.
In a tweet, external he addressed veterans, saying: "To our proud veterans - I will be a commander in chief who respects your sacrifice, understands your service, and will never betray the values you fought so bravely to defend."
Image source, ReutersBiden and his wife Jill were at a commemoration in Philadelphia
Image source, ReutersBoris Johnson attends an Armistice Day memorial at Westminster Abbey ahead of PM's Questions in Parliament
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has referred to Donald Trump as the "previous president" while answering a question in Parliament.
Johnson was asked whether he had any advice for his "erstwhile best friend Donald Trump" over the president's refusal to accept the election result.
"I had and have a good relationship with the previous president - I do not resile from that," the prime minister said.
But he said he was "delighted to find the many areas in which the incoming Biden/Harris administration is able to make common cause with us", particularly on climate change.
Johnson and Joe Biden spoke for 25 minutes on Tuesday.
Trump won't actually be the previous president until 20 January, assuming his legal actions against a Biden victory fail.
‘Trump making transition as turbulent as possible’
The US should be in a period of smooth transition, but President Donald Trump seems to want to make it turbulent, his former national security adviser Lt Gen Herbert Raymond McMaster has told the BBC.
Speaking to Hardtalk’s Stephen Sackur, McMaster said that as president, Trump did not have to listen to his advisers if he did not want to.
Trump is challenging the result of the presidential election, alleging electoral fraud, but the Trump campaign has yet to provide any strong evidence of this.
Image source, EPAPresident-elect Joe Biden has extended his lead over Donald Trump in the popular vote to more than five million votes.
By 11:00 local time in Washington (16:00 GMT), Biden had more than 77,320,000 votes while Trump had just over 72,220,000 votes.
In 2016, defeated Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton won almost three million more votes than Trump nationwide, but he won more votes in the electoral college.
Image source, Getty ImagesWelcome, and here's a quick recap of some of the latest developments:
Georgia's secretary of state has announced a full recount of the vote by hand.
Joe Biden leads in the Peach State by around 14,000 votes, Secretary Brad Raffensperger said.
"That'll be what we certify, that'll be the last count," he told reporters. "It's an audit, recanvass and recount all in one. It'll be a process that gets it all."
Raffensperger added that Georgia was in the same part of the election process as other states, like North Carolina and Texas, but those states didn't have such a close margin.
"We understand the national significance," he added. "We're doing this because it's really what makes the most sense... We have to run a statewide audit."
Anthony Zurcher
BBC North America reporter
In the northern climes of Alaska, vote-counting takes a bit longer - even when the elections are not particularly close.
So it took eight days after the US presidential election to determine that the Republicans would comfortably win both the state's three electoral college votes and the state's Senate race.
The former is relatively meaningless. Joe Biden has already been projected to win the presidency, and Alaska was never much of a battleground state.
Republican Dan Sullivan's re-election to the Senate, on the other hand, is significant in that it ensures that his party will hold at least half the seats in the chamber.
To maintain Senate control, Republicans now have to win just one of the two January run-off elections in Georgia. Both sides have just under two months to prepare for what will be the last major battle of this election cycle.
Image source, Getty ImagesDonald Trump is due to make his first public appearance since his election defeat when he participates in a Veterans Day ceremony at the Arlington military ceremony near Washington.
He and his wife Melania are due to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the cemetery. The event honours all those who have served in the US military.
More on the latest results from Alaska, with news that Republican Senator Dan Sullivan is projected to have won re-election there, according to Edison Research.
The 55-year-old looks to have defeated Al Gross, an independent who ran as a Democrat.
Sullivan's win means the Democrats now need to win the two remaining seats in Georgia, a traditionally Republican state, in order to create an evenly divided Senate.
The tie-breaking vote would then be held by Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris.
In one of Georgia's Senate races, incumbent Republican David Perdue had gained about 49.7% of the vote and Democrat Jon Ossoff had 48%, according to the BBC's results system.
In Georgia's other Senate race, Democrat Raphael Warnock won 32.9% and will go into a run-off against Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler, who trailed him with about 26%.
Winners of the two Senate seats in Georgia are to be decided in January run-offs.
Image source, ReutersChildren of immigrant families walk at a holding facility in Tornillo, Texas, in June 2018
After an election in which manifestos often struggled to get a look-in, there is now a clearer focus on how policies will be formed under a Biden administration.
Immigration may not top the list - the Biden transition website, external lists Covid, the economy, racial equality and climate change as the top four - but it is a core issue for Joe Biden.
He is said to be preparing executive orders - those that don't need Congress - for when he takes office.
And on immigration he plans (among other things) to:
It may not be easy. A lot will need to be done to roll back measures that did have a good deal of Republican support - and there will probably be a divided Congress to work with too.
Donald Trump is projected to have won in the state of Alaska, which will provide him with an additional three electoral college votes, bringing his total so far to 217, Edison Research reports.
The result in the state will not change the current outcome of the presidential election, which projects a win for Democrat Joe Biden, with 279 electoral college votes.
Trump is refusing to accept defeat in the 3 November election and has brought lawsuits in a number of states alleging fraud.
Image source, Getty ImagesTexas Lt Governor Dan Patrick said that he wanted to "support" Donald Trump in exposing voter fraud. No evidence of voter fraud has so far emerged
A politician in Texas has said he will pay up to $1m (£750,000) to anyone who comes forward with information of voter fraud from any state in the US if it leads to an arrest.
"Whistleblowers and tipsters should turn over their evidence to local law enforcement," Texas Lt Governor Dan Patrick said in a statement, according to CBS News.
"Anyone who provides information that leads to an arrest and final conviction of voter fraud will be paid a minimum of $25,000," he added.
Donald Trump refuses to accept Joe Biden's projected victory, and has made unsubstantiated fraud claims.
US attorney general William Barr has allowed federal prosecutors to probe alleged irregularities in the presidential election.
Patrick said he was offering the money, which would come from his campaign funds, to "support" Trump in what he said was "his commitment to making sure that every legal vote is counted and every illegal vote is disqualified".
Trump has not presented any evidence of widespread electoral fraud, which is very rare in the US.
Image source, EPAThe Nikkei in Tokyo on Tuesday crossed the 25,000 mark for the first time since 1991
A bit of both really - a sustained Biden jolt given a fuel injection by the vaccine announcement.
The Dow Jones rose perceptibly as Joe Biden's win last week became clearer, sustaining at under 28,500. The victory was announced by media last Saturday and when markets opened on Monday there was a huge and fairly sustained hike to 29,500. But that was also the day of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine announcement.
Who's benefited? Well, there's renewable energy stocks, airlines and other sectors hit by multiple lockdowns. On the other hand, some tech and medical stocks dipped.
Many traders will just be hailing the brightened outlook for the world economy, particularly in emerging markets if a Biden administration is less protectionist.
Whether the recent rises sustain though depends on longer-term confidence. Wednesday in Asian markets already saw some profit-taking as gains flattened. One analyst spoke of markets "focusing on the potential green pastures of a post-pandemic world" but there may be a few too many economic uncertainties for that just yet.
Image source, ReutersA city council member in Berkeley, California, has called for the school the vice-president-elect attended to be renamed the Kamala Harris Elementary School.
Harris attended the Thousand Oaks Elementary School in the late 60s and early 70s. The school's principal said it took "pride and excitement" in Harris's success, but the decision would be up to the school board or superintendent, the San Francisco Chronicle writes., external
There appear to be no schools yet named after Donald Trump but at least one square has been named in the president's honour in Israel, external.
Separately, the president of a local school board in San Francisco quit after his Trump-supporting wife posted racist tweets about Harris. Jon Venverloh said he disagreed with his wife's "reprehensible views". She has since apologised.
Matt McGrath
Environment correspondent, BBC News, Paris
Image source, ReutersScientists say glaciers in western China are melting rapidly
Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accords took effect on 4 November - the day after the election.
A month after the Biden administration informs the United Nations of its decision to re-join, the US will once again be part of the global effort to curb climate change - much to the delight of climate diplomats.
"It would definitely be a positive move, not only because they are a big player, but I think because it really emphasises the fact that the US believes in the science of climate change," says Carlos Fuller, the lead negotiator for the Alliance of Small Island States in annual UN climate meetings.
These annual conference-of-the-parties meetings are the mechanism by which countries agree to lower their carbon emissions. And US leadership is absolutely critical for this process.
With China, Japan and South Korea having set long-term goals to cut carbon, expectations are rising that the UN's COP26 climate summit, which convenes in Glasgow in November 2021, may turn out to be a success.