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Actor James Gandolfini, best known for playing mobster Tony Soprano, has died. We hear from Michael Goldstrom who worked with him on the show.

The US and the Taliban are to have direct talks about peace in Afghanistan. Will the Afghan government team join them?

It's described by President Jacob Zuma as one of the worst crimes ever committed against the people of South Africa. The Natives Land Act was passed exactly a hundred years ago. We hear from Melanie Nathan, an attorney who practised law in South Africa during the apartheid era and is now an international human rights activist.

We talk to ex-Wallaby Peter Fitzimons about Australia's and the Lions' selections for the first Test on Saturday

A British sheep farmer has become the first ex pat Mayor in Spain. Carmen McPhee, who was brought up in London and Luton, moved to Spain more than 20 years ago and has just become the Mayor of the town of Villaquejida in the province of Leon. She tells us what her job's going to be like.