US Senator John McCain has been buried at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, after a small private ceremony.

A military flypast was performed with the squadron one plane short, to symbolise the dead senator.

McCain graduated from the elite Naval Academy in 1958, later serving in Vietnam as a fighter jet pilot.

It caps a week of memorials for McCain, who died on 25 August, aged 81, from the effects of brain cancer.

Two former presidents ‑ George W Bush and Barack Obama ‑ paid tribute to McCain's courage and sense of honour.

[Source:BBC News]