Australia will get its fifth prime minister in eight years after the ruling Liberal Party voted out Tony Abbott in favour of long-time rival Malcolm Turnbull, following months of infighting and crumbling voter support.

Rescuers used a crane to hoist the wrecked fuselage of a TransAsia Airways plane from a shallow river in Taiwan’s capital last night as they searched for a number of people missing in a crash that killed at least 31 others.