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Aerial and infrared cameras helped locate and rescue the three-year-old boy who was missing for three hours. After wandering out of his backyard in Ohio, the child reportedly crossed a highway into a corn field, walked along a drainage ditch and was finally found in a soybean field.

Cambridge Jones They worked together for 20 years and became close friends. Despite increasingly grim news from medics, George Alagiah’s spirit remained indomitable – writes Sophie Raworth. I have a daughter called Georgia. She is 17 years old. In November 2005, on the day she was due to be born, my husband and I walked…

By Jenny Hill, correspondent in Rhodes The young woman stares at a charred beach umbrella lying in the sand and sighs. “For the tourists, it was a really terrifying and bad experience, but for us, it’s worse because we live here. Everything is burned.” Edisa, aged 19, who lives in Lindos with her parents on…

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…