The Liberal Democrats don't tend to go for rhetorical fireworks or verbal kneecappings when grumbling about their leader. But that doesn't mean there hasn't been grumbling going on. In the last week, two members of Sir Ed Davey's frontbench have resigned because they were unhappy with him, the party's direction and how policy is decided. It meant the prospect of a lengthy and potentially testy meeting for Sir Ed with his MPs on Tuesday evening. The Liberal Democrat leader arrived smiling, flanked by several loyal MPs, but made no comment as he entered the room.

Is the war entering a new phase? Ukrainian drones struck the Saratov region. The regional governor reported one person was killed and several homes were damaged. Vatican confirms Pope Leo's surgery was successful Food shortages in Yemen's Taiz as Houthi siege hits supplies

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. It is 01:00 on a Thursday and we are in the back of an unmarked police car on the hunt for vehicle thieves in east London. A call comes in over the radio about a stolen Ford Transit van. Within 25 minutes officers have found it, chased it down and arrested a suspect. Officers tell us the night has been successful, with further arrests made, yet across the UK a car is stolen every four minutes.

World's oldest shipwreck found off coast of Turkey To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The world's oldest shipwreck has been discovered off the coast of Turkey, archaeologists say. They have dated it to between 4,400 and 4,700 years old, which is the Early Bronze Age, and is around the same time that the Great Pyramid was being built. The ship's wooden structure has not survived, but the ceramic storage pots it was carrying were lying on the sea floor and, remarkably, some still contain traces of what they held inside. The archaeologists who found the ship say it was about 10m in length and was a trade vessel carrying cargo across the Mediterranean Sea.

Not building third runway would be'huge missed opportunity', warns Heathrow boss Not building a third runway at Heathrow Airport would be a huge missed opportunity for the UK, the boss of the country's busiest airport has warned. Thomas Woldbye told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it would be good to know the government's position on the project, after Prime Minister Andy Burnham refused to say whether he backed expansion. The airport's chief executive said if its owners could not invest in a third runway, the money will be invested somewhere else in the world, suggesting a decision would be made in the new year. The Department for Transport said it was reviewing responses to a consultation and was considering the appropriate next steps. A spokesperson added that the government supported airport expansion across the country where this can contribute to growth and opportunity, while meeting the tests on the environment.

Longtime Doctor Who writer and showrunner Russell T Davies has criticised the new BBC director general over comments he made about an AI-generated episode of the show. Matt Brittin told a Royal Television Society conference in September that he had been sent a pretty good 50-minute unofficial Doctor Who episode. That's a clumsy thing to say in an industry where he's got writers and artists and it specifically affects people, they're the first to take the blow, Davies told BBC Radio 4's The Media Show. Addressing criticism he has received, Brittin told a staff meeting last week he was attempting to make a point around the pace of change while stressing he believed in human creativity. The director general joked he had got into trouble over what he had said, but added: I was just trying to make the point: Look at the pace of change and what this stuff can do.

A key energy facility supplying Kyiv with heating and electricity has been hit in a Russian ballistic missile attack, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. Darnytska CHP-4, or CHPP-4, and a residential building were hit in a strike the president said came with no early warning from our partners. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said two people had been killed and 21 injured in the missile strike on the apartment block late on Tuesday. He said several energy facilities in Kyiv had been hit without giving more detail. Kyiv has reported multiple Russian strikes since US President Donald Trump said an energy ceasefire had been agreed by Russia and Ukraine two days ago.

SoftBank junk bond sale raises stakes for CEO Son's all-in AI bet SoftBank Group Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son's bets have a mixed track record -- his investment in Chinese tech giant Alibaba was a major success, but he also directed $16 billion to Adam Neumann's WeWork, which ultimately went bankrupt. SoftBank's promise to pay its highest-ever yields in a record $11 billion junk-bond offering highlights the pressure on CEO Masayoshi Son to secure returns on his all-in bet on artificial intelligence amid concerns about possible overheating in the market. The SoftBank debt issuance last month added to a sharp surge in corporate borrowing this year, including major bond sales from Amazon, Alphabet and Tencent. The scale of Son's investments, which include backing totaling $64.6 billion for ChatGPT maker OpenAI, in particular, has made the technology-and-investing conglomerate a bellwether for AI sentiment. In a time of both misinformation and too much information, quality journalism is more crucial than ever.

Bank of America hit with $1.2bn fine for money laundering failings Bank of America has been fined $1.2bn (£910m) for failing to detect potential money laundering and other illegal activity, the US Treasury Department said on Tuesday. The banking giant failed to report over $5bn in suspicious activity to the government, $1bn of which posed national security and illicit finance risks, the Treasury said. Those failures included not flagging transactions that possibly involved Chinese money laundering networks or trade-based laundering with a substantial nexus to the southwest border, according to the Treasury. Our team is far along with and committed to completing the work required to address the issues raised by our regulators, Bank of America told the BBC. The announcement came less 24 hours before Bank of America was due to announce its quarterly earnings on Wednesday morning.

OpenAI discovered a recording device plugged into a USB port on the back of a television in an executive conference room at one of its San Francisco buildings last month. U.S. federal agents have arrested a Saudi national who was an OpenAI engineer and charged him with installing a hidden audio recording device in an executive conference room at the AI company, the Justice Department said on Tuesday. The case highlights growing security concerns around sensitive AI research as companies and governments compete fiercely for the talent and technology that could confer economic and strategic advantages. Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, had worked as an engineer at OpenAI since July 2025, the Justice Department said in a statement. An email sent to an address associated with that name did not elicit a response, and it was not immediately clear who his lawyer was.