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Appeal to supporters: Congolese opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi.

Deddie Davies, Etienne Tshisekedi, Alexander Chancellor

Popular actor who played 'Allo 'Allo cafe owner Rene Artois

Gordon Kaye with Francesca Gonshaw and Vicki Michelle of British sitcom <i>'Allo 'Allo!</i>

Gorden Kaye,  the actor, who has died aged 75, was almost universally known as René Artois, the bumbling café owner and frustrated philanderer in the enormously popular television comedy series 'Allo 'Allo, which was seen in more than 30 countries by an audience of some 200 million viewers.

Zhou Youguang's Pinyin writing system helped modernise China

Zhou Youguang invented the Romanised spelling of Chinese words known as Pinyin.

​Zhou Youguang, a onetime Wall Street banker from China who developed Pinyin, a Romanized writing system that has helped more than 1 billion Chinese and countless foreigners learn to read and write Mandarin, died Jan. 14 in Beijing, one day after celebrating his 111th birthday.