The convicted murderer was given two doses of pentobarbital, a lethal drug used by the US state in executions, on Wednesday.

However, in a court filing, Pike's legal team said problems with the IV lines caused the barbiturate pentobarbital to go into her body, instead of her bloodstream.

The 50-year-old remains unconscious and on a ventilator as doctors attempt to get the doses of the drug out of her system.

Asked on CNN's State of the Union for an update on her condition, assistant federal defender Stephen Ferrell, Pike's lawyer, said: "It remains the same. She's still in the hospital on a ventilator, critically ill.

"We don't really know the prognosis yet, and may not know for several days."

Asked whether she ever regained consciousness after the execution attempt, Mr Ferrell added: "Not that I am aware of."

Mr Ferrell does not know what Tennessee's attorney general's office will do next.

"We don't know what the prognosis is, as in the long-term prognosis... she may not fully recover," he said.

"We just don't know any of this. We have had no discussions about this [what happens next]. The Tennessee attorney general's office, so far, has not given us any indications of what their intentions will be."

Mr Ferrell believes that the state should commute her sentence.

"At the very least, the governor should commute Ms Pike's death sentence to a life sentence," he said.

"We don't know what her physical state will be, but it's clear that she has endured a tortuous attempt at executing her, and we had already asked that the governor commute her for many good reasons."

Pike's lawyers have said that her arms were "swollen, burned, and blistered" from the caustic pentobarbital administered during the attempted execution.

Little has been released about Pike's condition in the days since the attempted execution, and Mr Ferrell said that his client had given someone her medical power of attorney, adding that that person is protecting her privacy.

A spokeswoman for Pike's defence team said in a statement early Sunday that "we appreciate all respect for Christa's rightful privacy".

Pike and her boyfriend, Tadaryl Shipp, were convicted of torturing and killing Colleen Slemmer, a 19-year-old classmate of theirs, at a job training facility in the city of Knoxville in 1995.

Prosecutors said Pike, who was 18 at the time, feared she was trying to steal her boyfriend, and lured her to a wooded area.

A pentagram, a star-shaped symbol associated with Satanism, was carved on the victim's body, which, along with other elements of the crime, stoked fears of Satan worship during the so-called "satanic panic" in the country during the 1980s and 1990s.

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Shipp, who was 17 when the crime was committed, received a life sentence with the possibility of ​parole.

Pike does not deny the killing, but her supporters have argued the state should consider her age at the time, mental illness and a history of severe sexual abuse, including rape, beginning when she was a child.

Meanwhile, Frank Strada, commissioner of Tennessee's Department of Correction, will step down this month while an independent review determines what happened, state governor Bill Lee said on Saturday.

The Gloucestershire air base was the target of a suspected terror attack on 27 September.

Five UK nationals in their mid-20s were arrested on suspicion of explosives offences and terrorism close to RAF Fairford.

They have since been bailed, as has a UK-Iranian national who was arrested on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts on 1 October.

A Pentagon official confirmed the removed of the US Air Force's bombers, including B-52s, on Sunday.

"US Air Force bombers routinely operate around the world to support global force readiness and operational requirements," a statement read.

"While operational security precluded us from confirming the movement of our assets and forces in real-time, we can acknowledge now that all US bombers that were deployed to RAF Fairford have redeployed to their home stations in the United States.

"The Airmen that operate America's bomber force, including B-1s, B-2s, and B-52s, remain ready to deliver precision global strike capabilities - including through operations that launch and recover from the continental United States - anywhere, anytime."

RAF Fairford is an important base for US military operations. It acts as the headquarters for the US 501st Combat Support Wing and the 420th Air Base Squadron, according to the unit's website.

It serves as "the preferred bomber forward operating location in Europe for US Air Force Global Strike Command".

In March, a number of US B-1 Lancer bombers arrived at the military base as part of US operations after launching the Iran war.

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Identified as Jane Doe, she filed a civil lawsuit in September against the university and seven members of the Chi Phi fraternity over the alleged incident in October 2024.

The woman's lawyer, Thomas Giuffra, said to CNN that he had also been threatened.

"She's received multiple threats," the attorney told CNN's State of the Union. "I'm not afraid of these people.

"But ⁠the threats, the abuse to protect what's ⁠going on, the status quo - these guys are disgusting."

In her lawsuit, Jane Doe alleges she was "plied with alcohol and drugs to the point of intoxication" by fraternity members, leaving her unable to consent before she was sexually assaulted.

It comes after Cornell University president Michael Kotlikoff's statement on Sunday, where he called the allegation "deeply disturbing" and said it raised "troubling issues about sexual assault, dehumanisation and aspects of party culture, alcohol and drug use".

He reaffirmed his commitment to supporting an independent review of Cornell's handling of the case called for by New York's Governor Kathy Hochul and said the school's Board of Trustees would announce details next week.

Mr Kotlikoff also said the Ivy League school would take steps to prevent similar incidents in the future - including "a serious look at the role of fraternities and sororities in campus life".

New York state prosecutors reopened an investigation into the woman's allegations at the end of last month.

Announcing that his office would present the case to a grand jury, Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten defended his office's decision not to seek criminal charges at the time of the alleged offence.

He said that the accuser did not make any claims of being gang-raped or drugged in her initial sworn statement to authorities, and that he was never contacted by the woman's lawyer about her statement or about reconsidering the decision not to prosecute.

Victims' rights attorney Gloria Allred told Sky News on Sunday that the "system failed the alleged victim and the accused".

Mr Giuffra previously told Sky's US partner network NBC News that in the days following the assault, his client was "traumatised, numb and unable to function or accept the horror of what had happened".

He added that she went to Cornell University Police Department "once she was emotionally ready", because she believed she was the victim of a crime, but "she was never spoken with by anyone other than the officer who took her original complaint".

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The woman's lawsuit accuses the university of not preventing the alleged assaults and failing to properly address sexual violence on campus.

Members of the fraternity allegedly used a Snapchat group chat to encourage others to join in, according to the lawsuit, which included a photo of some messages as well as details about the alleged assault itself.

According to the lawsuit, the accused were given "the opportunity to mitigate their conduct by submitting essays to Cornell".

The case has drawn national and international attention, with figures including actress Florence Pugh and Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaking out about it.

Officers found the body of a woman in her 40s at an address in Fern Hill, Dersingham, in the early hours of Sunday morning, Norfolk Constabulary said.

Officers were called to the house by the ambulance service shortly after 2.20am.

A man in his 40s has been arrested on suspicion of murder, the force added. He was taken to King's Lynn Police Investigation Centre for questioning, and remains in custody.

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Detective Inspector Alix Wright, of the Norfolk and Suffolk major investigation team, said: "We are in the very early stages of this investigation working to establish the exact circumstances surrounding the woman's death.

"I'd ask anyone who believes they may have information that could help our investigation to please share this with us."

A post-mortem will be carried out on Monday.

The co-pilot of the flydubai flight ‌1073, which had departed from Dubai, attacked the pilot with an emergency crash axe inside the cockpit and attempted to take control of the aircraft to commit a "terrorist attack", the United Arab Emirates prosecutor general said on Saturday.

He was ​identified as Hamam al Hammami, an Omani national.

Flydubai said it had launched a full investigation.

Two sources briefed on the investigation said the ​co-pilot studied at a university in Melbourne. Local media reports said he studied at RMIT University.

Buckinghamshire New University in the UK has also confirmed that Al Hammami had previously completed a distance-learning course in aviation management at the institution.

"The Victorian Joint Counter Terrorism Team (VIC JCTT), comprising the AFP, Victoria Police and ASIO, can confirm it is investigating the man's links to Australia. An update will be provided at ​an appropriate time," ​an Australian ⁠Federal Police (AFP) spokesperson said, referring to the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation.

Al Hammami had allegedly visited radical mosques and extremist websites ​while ⁠in Australia, the Financial Times reported on Sunday, citing two people familiar with the investigation.

Australian intelligence services held a file on him, according to the FT.

Passengers and crew subdued the alleged attacker on Wednesday as the plane, carrying 182 people, plummeted from 33,000ft to 17,000ft in around a minute.

The aircraft, travelling from Dubai to Tel Aviv, was forced to make an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia, where the co-pilot was detained.

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UAE senior diplomatic adviser Anwar Gargash on Friday called the flydubai incident a "dangerous terrorist act" in a post on X, commending the flight captain for preventing a catastrophe.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the co-pilot had undergone "Islamist radical indoctrination", and it appeared "very likely that he was going to down the plane".

Investigations are ongoing ⁠to determine ​the circumstances of the ​incident, the motives ​and any related ⁠connections, as well as to ⁠examine physical and ​digital evidence, UAE prosecutor general Hamad Saif ​al Shamsi said.

Al Hammami - who has a Syrian mother and was born in the UAE - had been banned from flying by Oman over fears he had adopted extremist views before he was hired by the UAE-based airline, sources told the Associated Press (AP).

A Gulf diplomat told the news agency that investigations were underway to establish whether he acted as a "lone wolf, or has any connection with any extremist groups".

Captain Smit Machchhar, meanwhile, has been hailed a hero after fighting to open the cockpit door when he was stabbed by his colleague in mid-air.

The Indian pilot has been visited in hospital by the deputy leader of the UAE.

US President Donald Trump told reporters that early information he has received suggests links between the attack and Iran, adding that if Iranian agents were to blame, the US will "hit them very hard".