Sir Charles Wheeler, one of the BBC's longest-serving and most popular foreign correspondents, has died. He was 85.

Charles died at his home on Friday morning from lung cancer.
Sir Charles was chief US correspondent from 1969 to 1973, when he was made Europe correspondent. In the 1950s, he worked as a correspondent in Germany and South Asia.

In the US, Sir Charles covered the assassination of Martin Luther King, Beatlemania, and Watergate. He also worked for Newsnight for 15 years and was a Panorama producer.