British Prime Minister Tony Blair has flown home into a political crisis over the suicide of a weapons expert at the centre of a row over Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
Mr Blair looked relaxed as he walked down the steps of his flight at Heathrow Airport, hand in hand with his wife Cherie, before being driven to central London without making any comment.
He had set out on his Asian trip eager to tackle the North Korean nuclear crisis, meet China's new leaders and build trade ties in the Asia-Pacific.
But his whirlwind tour, which included Japan and South Korea, was overshadowed by the suicide of defence expert Dr David Kelly, at the centre of accusations that Mr Blair's government had hyped intelligence to justify going to war in Iraq.
Dr Kelly's death has sparked calls for the British prime minister to quit.