Tens of thousands of fans gathered at the Medellin stadium in Colombia, and at Chapecoense's home ground in Chapeco, Brazil, to pay tribute to those killed in a plane crash in Colombia.
Chapecoense lost 19 players in the crash, which happened when the plane plunged into a mountainside near the city of Medellin late on Monday.
A man has been legally allowed to end his life because he was an alcoholic. Mark Langedijk had been fighting the condition for years and was also suffering from depression and anxiety.
At the age of 41 he convinced doctors and psychiatrists in the Netherlands that he met the country's strict criteria required to be granted the life-ending treatment.
His brother Marcel Langedijk has been telling the BBC's Anna Holligan about the day Mark died.
Pictures of chubby squirrels reaching eagerly for food at have been trending on Chinese social media this week.
The first pictures emerged from West Lake, a major tourist spot in Hangzhou.
But the story also made it to mainstream media, with warnings to tourists over-feeding the animals could affect their reproductive capacity, and their ability to hide as prey.
Video produced by Jilla Dastmalchi and Kerry Allen
Police say a New York man made off with a bucket filled with gold flakes valued at around $1.6m (£1.2).
The unidentified man waited until the security guards were distracted before grabbing the gold off the back of a security van parked in Manhattan.
Police believe he has fled to Florida.
Tractors are traditionally associated with men but an Indian woman is the boss of the third biggest tractor firm in the world.
Shilpa Kannan meets Mallika Srinivasan, the chairman and CEO of Tractors and Farm Equipment Limited, to find out how she has succeeded in a man's world for the BBC's 100 Women season.
Filming and editing by Premanand Boominathan
Myanmar's economy is now one of the fastest-growing in Asia as it opens up and emerges from five decades of military rule.
But those years of stagnation also meant a degree of protection for the colonial-era buildings in the old capital, Yangon. There simply wasn't the money, or the need to redevelop.
But with things changing fast, can the city's unique architecture be preserved?
Video by Jonah Fisher
30 November 2016 Last updated at 23:51 GMT
A recording of the pilot of the plane carrying the Chapecoense football team talking to air traffic control in Colombia has been leaked to Caracol Radio.
The man who invented the McDonald's Big Mac burger has died, aged 98.
In 1967, Michael "Jim" Delligatti came up with the formula of having two lots of everything - beef patties, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions and special sauce - in one burger.
He was one of the company's first franchisees, running stores in the US in the 1950s.
McDonald's has described him as a "legendary" person, who "made a lasting impression on our brand".
Jim Delligatti invented the Big Mac in a restaurant in Uniontown in Pennsylvania.
It had seven ingredients and was much more elaborate than the other dishes the franchise was serving at the time.
As well as its size, the burger is also famed for its so-called "secret sauce".
This sauce is known to contain ingredients such as salted egg yolks, mustard, onion, garlic and relish, but recreating the exact mix is a challenge.
A bottle of it was auctioned off last year, attracting bids of more than £12,000.
Fast food isn't traditionally associated with healthy eating though.
The Big Mac as a whole contains 508 calories in the UK and is now sold in more than 100 countries around the world.
After inventing the burger, Jim Delligatti went on to run 48 McDonald's branches, making him one of the biggest franchisees in the company's history.
He passed away on Monday night in Pittsburgh, surrounded by his family.
Individual McDonald's stores have also been paying their respects.
"[Jim] is an exemplary individual who embraced the community and championed many causes and organizations that benefitted children", a McDonald's spokesperson told Newsbeat.
"We will remember Jim as an insightful franchisee, a knowledgeable businessman, and an honourable gentleman who left a legacy of four generations of family members running great restaurants in Pennsylvania and North Carolina."
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An urn holding the ashes of the late Cuban leader, Fidel Castro, has begun a four-day journey across the country.
Large crowds, many of them chanting Fidel Castro's name or waving Cuban flags, lined the streets of the capital, Havana, as a military vehicle carrying the urn went past.
At least 20,000 civilians have been displaced in the past few days, as Syrian government forces push deeper into besieged, rebel-held eastern districts of the city of Aleppo.
A young women who lives the east, Lina Shamy, told BBC Arabic that is a "disaster area".
Video produced by Faisal Irshaid and edited by Vladimir Hernandez
Castro's critics, many of whom emigrated to Miami after the revolution, call him a dictator and celebrated his death.
A Cuban man who had both his legs amputated as a boy has praised Cuba's communist revolution for giving him access to free healthcare and education.
Heraclito Deschapelles spoke to the BBC after the Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro died on Friday.
30 November 2016 Last updated at 10:53 GMT
Family and friends have gathered at the Chapecoense football club in Brazil as they wait for more news of the victims of the plane crash in Colombia which killed most of the team's players.
Julia Caneiro reports.
Around 30 people demonstrating against the Australian government's treatment of asylum seekers have disrupted parliament in Canberra.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull sat still as he observed the protest and waited for it to end.
Denis Karagodin from Siberia, who has spent the last five years trying to find out who executed his great-grandfather during the Stalinist purges has received an apology from a granddaughter of one of the executioners.
Conditions for people fleeing the fighting in Northern Iraq are worsening.
The BBC has obtained footage of a settlement in which five children have recently died of Hypothermia.
Produced by Feras Kilani and Ben Allen.
A fire at a school in southern Turkey has killed 12 people, including 11 teenage girls.
Twenty-two others were wounded when the fire broke out at a dormitory in Adana.
A teacher, Damian, who lives in Chapeco - the Chapecoense football team's home town - tells the BBC's World Have Your Say that they are shell-shocked, after many players died in a plane crash.
The Chernobyl nuclear accident of 1986 caused very real devastation.
But it has taken decades to debunk some myths about the disaster.
Images courtesy of Getty.
Video produced by Jilla Dastmalchi.
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A plane carrying 81 people, including a top Brazilian football team, has crashed on its approach to the city of Medellin in Colombia.
Colombia's civil aviation body says only six people survived the crash, blamed on an electrical fault.
This footage shows the devastation of the crash scene.
US actress Evan Rachel Wood says she's been raped twice.
In an open letter on Twitter, the 29-year-old said she'd been attacked by a "significant other" and a bar owner.
She wrote the post after an interview in Rolling Stone magazine, in which she talked about being subjected to "physical, psychological, sexual" abuse and attempting suicide in her early 20s.
The star said the attacks happened "many, many years ago".
She also claimed that the rapes were "one of the many factors" that contributed to her attempt to take her own life.
"I don't believe we live in a time where people can stay silent any longer," she wrote.
"I certainly can't. Not given the state our world is in with its blatant bigotry and sexism.
"It should be talked about because it's swept under the rug as nothing and I will not accept this as 'normal'. It's a serious problem.
"I am still standing. I am alive. I am happy. I am strong. But I am still not ok.
"Yes, I have been raped. By a significant other while we were together. And on a separate occasion, by the owner of a bar."
In the letter the actress doesn't say whether she reported the alleged attacks to police or whether she took any legal action.
"The first time I was unsure that if it was done by a partner it was still in fact rape, until too late," she wrote.
"Also who would believe me.
"And the second time, I thought it was my fault and that I should have fought back more, but I was scared."
Evan Rachel Wood plays Dolores in Sky Atlantic's sci-fi Western series, Westworld.
In the first episode her life-like robot character is shown being dragged off to be raped.
But she's defended how the show depicts sexual violence.
"The thing about Westworld is we don't actually show any act of rape," she told Rolling Stone.
"I was affected by things being written off as locker-room talk - I had a very, very visceral reaction to it. But the show is definitely a commentary on that."
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An Afghan boy called Edris thanked German Chancellor Angela Merkel and shed a few tears in front of her Christian Democrat (CDU) supporters, during an emotional debate on the migrant crisis.
Earlier a CDU activist urged Mrs Merkel to resign, condemning her "laissez-faire" refugee policy as "a burden that we will not get rid of any time soon".
Some streets in Sudan's capital Khartoum have been empty as people protest about rising prices by staying at home. A school teacher sent the BBC's World Have Your Say this message.
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A plane carrying 81 people, including a top Brazilian football team, has crashed on its approach to the city of Medellin in Colombia.
Rescuers are working in extremely difficult conditions to find any survivors. Tim Vickery reports.
A man who injured 11 people, one critically, in a rampage at Ohio State University was of Somali descent and a student on campus, say US officials.
29 November 2016 Last updated at 07:58 GMT
Higher water temperatures in 2016 caused the worst destruction of coral ever recorded on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, a study has found.
Emma Morano, who is 117 years old, says she doesn't want to celebrate her birthday, but people come from all over the world to see her anyway.
Catrina Renton reports.
Should young girls in Arab countries - and around the world - be trained how to defend themselves against unwanted physical attention?
This personal view comes from Joumana Haddad, Lebanese author of Superman is an Arab. She argues this simple change will fundamentally shift how men and women think.This is part of a series of authored talks by radical thinkers, from BBC World Hacks - a new BBC World Service programme focussed on solutions, or hacks, to global problems.
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The BBC asked people standing in line to pay tribute to Fidel Castro on Plaza de la Revolucion, what they think of the relationship between their country and the US now that Donald Trump will be president and Fidel Castro has passed away.
Video by Anna Bressanin
Last month, Russian authorities conducted large-scale civil defence drills and announced they were upgrading underground nuclear bunkers to accommodate the entire Moscow population.
The BBC's Steve Rosenberg was granted exclusive access to one attack-ready shelter in the north of the city.
Zimbabwe has launched a new currency that the authorities hope will ease a severe cash shortage, but critics fear it will only worsen the country's economic problems.
In next year's presidential election in France, Francois Fillon will face a Socialist candidate - still to be decided - and the far right candidate, Marine Le Pen.
Elaine Jung looks at what challenges Mr Fillon and his rivals will face.
Ukraine’s former president, Viktor Yanukovych, has been questioned via video-link from Russia - in a Ukrainian court.
He appeared as a witness in the trial of five former Ukrainian policemen - who are accused of shooting dead protesters in 2014.
Mr Yanukovych fled to Russia, days after the killings.
Tom Burridge was in court.
Thousands of Cubans are paying their respects to the leader of the Cuban revolution, Fidel Castro, who died on Friday at the age of 90.
It is the first public commemorative event of nine days of mourning, which end after his ashes are laid to rest on Sunday.
An ice rink in Japan has caused controversy after freezing 5,00 dead fish into the ice.
The park, Space World, has since closed the rink and will hold a memorial for the fish.
A Ugandan law student, Joaninne Nanyange, says she was barred from class because her skirt was 'distracting to men and boys'.
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Produced by Insaf Abbas.
The UN's special investigator on torture has arrived in Turkey following allegations of rape and abuse by the country's security forces, after July's failed coup.
Tens of thousands of people have been jailed in a crackdown that has been condemned by activists and several western governments.
Mark Lowen's report contains details some viewers may find disturbing.
28 November 2016 Last updated at 03:07 GMT
Young people in Cuba tell the BBC how Fidel Castro's legacy has impacted their lives.
A magazine produced by women of colour, gal-dem, has taken over the Victoria and Albert Museum in London with a series of workshops. One 'twerkshop' asks whether the dance known as twerking empowers or objectifies women.
The BBC's 100 Women team went along to find out more.
Reported by Hannah Ajala. Edited by Joe Inwood.
Hala Hindawi explains why she likes to wear a hijab. Sometimes.
Nigeria's film industry, known as Nollywood, is reportedly worth as much as $3bn (£2.4bn) a year.
But filmmaker Tope Oshin told BBC Focus on Africa's Mayeni Jones there were fewer than 20 female directors in Nigeria.
She spoke to many of them for her documentary Amaka's Kin - The Women of Nollywood.
Footage courtesy of Tope Oshin
Firefighters have tried to free atwo-year-old girl from north-west China after she got trapped in a washing machine.
People have donated about $95,000 (£76,000) to fund the digging of a hole which serves no purpose.
It was started by the makers of Cards Against Humanity, a popular card game.
"The holidays are here, and everything in America is going really well. To celebrate Black Friday, Cards Against Humanity is digging a tremendous hole in the earth," organisers wrote on their website.
The Holiday Hole dig has been going on for days and is still being funded.
"Why aren't you giving all this money to charity?" reads one of their frequently asked questions.
"Why aren't YOU giving all this money to charity? It's your money," they reply.
Organisers say there is no "deeper meaning" behind the dig.
"You're supposed to think it's funny," they write.
"You might not get it for a while, but some time next year you'll chuckle quietly to yourself and remember all this business about the hole."
Cards Against Humanity have created this kind of stunt before, to coincide with Black Friday.
In 2014 they sold more than 30,000 boxes of dung.
And last year they offered Black Friday customers "the ability to buy nothing from us for $5".
Cards Against Humanity is known for our charitable fundraising - since 2012 we've raised nearly $4m (£3.2m) for organisations we love," they say.
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Heavy rains have caused landslides in the region of Liguria, as shown in this video footage released by firefighters.
Artists from the US, Singapore and Canada to take part in this annual sand art competition on the Atlantic Ocean beach.
Thousands of people gather for Krampus season in Austria, and it's not Santa Claus that they're waiting to see.
The author of Fidel Castro’s only consented biography, Claudia Furiati, met the Cuban leader several times in the 1990s.
She was granted exclusive access to his personal archives and allowed to interview his family, acquaintances and the leader himself.
She spoke to the BBC’s Julia Carneiro in Rio Janeiro about the Cuban leader up close.
Producer: Luciani Gomes
Video: Ana Terra Athayde
Eric Pare and Kim Henry travel the world making light paintings. Everything is lit by hand, in one second, using tubes of light.
They spoke to Dan Damon about how the artworks are created.
Taliban fighters are inflicting a heavy toll on Afghanistan’s security forces. Now the US-led Nato coalition is training a new air force for the country to support security forces fighting insurgents.
The BBC joined the training mission in Kabul and spoke to one of the new pilots.
Hugh Schofield looks at the two rivals for the centre-right French presidential nomination - Francois Fillon and Alain Juppe.
Seven candidates were whittled down to two last Sunday, with Mr Fillon taking an unexpectedly decisive lead of 44.1% to Mr Juppe's 28.5%.
