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King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand has died at the age of 88. He was the world's longest-reigning monarch, and was widely revered as a stabilising figure, in a country hit by cycles of political turmoil and multiple coups. We hear from Richard Ehrlich of the Washington Times in Bangkok.

Chemicals in fridges and air-conditioning units have long been blamed for contributing to global warming. Representatives from 200 countries are meeting in the Rwandan capital Kigali to discuss the phasing out of hydrofluorocarbons - or HFCs. These were introduced in the 1990s as an alternative to other chemicals which were damaging the Ozone layer. They’re now feared to have made the problem even worse. The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s environment correspondent Matt McGrath reports from the conference.

Kenya Airways has suffered from falling ticket sales and industrial action for years. Now, pilots are threatening to go on strike indefinitely – the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½â€™s Michael Kaloki in Nairobi explains this latest bout of turbulence for the airline.

And we hear from South Africa - the world's seventh-biggest producer of wine by volume. But now South African wine producers are now targeting shoppers close to home -- the growing middle class of sub-Saharan Africa and Nigeria in particular, from where the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½â€™s Ijeoma Ndukwe reports.

(Photo: Thai women react after reading confirmation of the death of Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej. Credit: Borja Sanchez Trillo/Getty Images)