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Known as the king of ranchera music, Fernández was immensely popular in Mexico and the US.

Activists in Calais demand change after decades of people coming to the city looking to reach the UK.

Activists in Calais demand change after decades of people coming to the city looking to reach the UK.

BBC News By Toby Luckhurst image copyrightKelsey Sims Many of us struggled to adapt to home working and isolation during the coronavirus pandemic. But the few remaining fire lookouts of the US Forest Service often live and work for weeks at a time on their own, scouring the horizon for any hint of smoke from remote lookout towers. Kelsey Sims was at home in Ohio at the start of the pandemic. The 26-year-old had previously worked as a firefighter, spending two years on fire engines in wild area...

TikTok: How Israeli-Palestinian conflict plays out on social media By Toby Luckhurst image captionYoung Palestinians and Israelis have been capturing the conflict on smartphones As fighting between Israel and Palestinian militants escalates on the ground, TikTok has become a forum for airing tensions. Once known primarily for viral dance trends, the video app has also become a key platform for sharing news. The Chinese-owned site has a vast, mostly younger audience, with an estimated 700 milli...

BBC News By Toby Luckhurst image copyrightChristies Images Ltd. 2021 image captionChristies estimates a sale price of $1m (£720,000) for the wine and a normal bottle for comparison A bottle of French wine that orbited the Earth for more than a year has been put up for sale. The bottle of Pétrus 2000 - made from merlot grapes in the Bordeaux region - spent 14 months in orbit as part of a privately funded research study on food and agriculture. On Tuesday Christies announced the wine is now av...

BBC News By Toby Luckhurst image captionThe mob burned down the offices of the Wilmington Daily Record A violent mob, whipped into a frenzy by politicians, tearing apart a town to overthrow the elected government. Following state elections in 1898, white supremacists moved into the US port of Wilmington, North Carolina, then the largest city in the state. They destroyed black-owned businesses, murdered black residents, and forced the elected local government - a coalition of white and black pol...