EPA By Robert Greenall BBC News Thousands of fans have lined streets in central Paris to say farewell to English-French star Jane Birkin. The funeral was attended by numerous celebrities, and was live-streamed to crowds outside the Saint Roch church. People held posters and wore T-shirts declaring their love for the star. Though born in…

Getty Images By Madeline Halpert BBC News, New York President Joe Biden will establish a national monument to honour Emmett Till, a black teenager who was lynched in 1955 in Mississippi, as well as his mother, a White House official said. Till’s lynching and the activism of his mother Mamie Till-Mobley helped galvanise the civil…

Reuters By Nadine Yousif BBC News Hundreds have been displaced and four people are missing as floods devastate the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. Police have found a vehicle two children were in before it was submerged but found no sign of them. The others missing were also driving. The flooding was caused by the…

Reuters By Guy Hedgecoe BBC News, Madrid Spanish politics is facing deadlock as a snap election ended with no single party easily able to form a government. Support for the far-right fell sharply and the conservative PP party is now the biggest in parliament, but would find it difficult to form a coalition. Pedro Sánchez’s…

Getty Images By Sam Cabral BBC News A heatwave baking the US Southwest for weeks is set to expand into central and eastern regions. Beginning in the Midwest, the hot weather will extend east as far as the southern tip of Florida by Wednesday, say meteorologists. Temperature records were shattered in several major cities over…

Lucy Hockings announced the death of her colleague and fellow presenter George Alagiah on the BBC’s midday news bulletin on Wednesday. As well noting he won many awards in his hugely successful career, she said those who worked with him would remember him as “thoroughly decent”, “unfailingly kind-hearted and always so, so generous”. Alagiah was…

Reuters By Emily McGarvey BBC News At least 15 people have been killed and thousands evacuated after wildfires broke out across Algeria, the country’s interior ministry says. Outbreaks of 97 wildfires were recorded across 16 provinces affecting forest, crops and farmland on Monday. Around 7,500 firefighters were working to bring the blazes under control, authorities…

AFP By Natasha Booty BBC News Thirty-three people are now known to have died in Cameroon’s biggest city, Douala, after a four-storey building collapsed and fell onto another residential block. It happened early on Sunday morning in the city’s Ange Raphaël neighbourhood and the cause is still not clear. At least 21 people have been…

With her eye in the sky, Hampton’s native Joanna Steidle has seen an increase in sharks close to shore in the last five years. She hopes the beautiful images she captures with her drone will help educate others about the importance of underwater ecosystems. Especially the feared and misunderstood sharks.

George Alagiah, who has died aged 67, was one of the BBC’s longest-serving and most respected journalists. Being a friend and colleague of the award-winning foreign correspondent was a privilege – writes Allan Little. George and I were thrown together when we shared an office in Johannesburg in the Mandela years. So when I think…