5.14am BST

We're winding up the live blog for now. You can read a full news report here. Below is a summary of events:

• Authorities in Italy have announced the Costa Concordia cruise ship is back upright after a 19-hour operation. The cruise liner hit rocks and tipped on to its side in January 2012 as it was departing the Italian island of Giglio.

• The biggest ever feat of its kind, the operation known as parbuckling had been delayed slightly after an overnight storm but apparently went without a hitch in the subsequent hours.

• The moment of success was heralded by a foghorn that sounded over the port at Giglio shortly after 4am. With the re-emerged hull looming large over the port, Italy's civil protection agency chief, Franco Gabrielli, announced the ship's rotation had reached 65 degrees, meaning the operation was complete.

• Franco Porcellacchia, a representative of the ship's owners, Costa Crociere, said: "We completed the parbuckling operation a few minutes ago the way we thought it would happen and the way we hoped it would happen." Porcellacchia said it had been "a perfect operation" with no environmentally damaging spill detected so far.

• The parbuckling operation involved dozens of huge chains and a system of weighted tanks being used to pull the ship back up.

• Further work on the Concordia will be undertaken in its current position, resting on underwater platforms built for the purpose, before it is towed away in 2014 to be cut up for scrap.

• When the Costa Concordia went down there were 32 people killed. Two of the bodies have never been found and so far in the salvage effort there has been no sign of the remains of Maria Grazia Trecarichi, a Sicilian passenger, and Russel Rebello, an Indian waiter.