Six O'Clock News

Zack Polanski has insisted he will stay on as the leader of the Greens, despite a by-election defeat at a time when he's already under pressure from many within his party. Also: This year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the South African judge, Navi Pillay. And ministers have said they will introduce tougher regulation of assessments for autism and ADHD. (Image: PA)

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has won the first round of his legal case against Thames Valley Police, after the force accepted that the warrants used to search his homes earlier this year were unlawful. The former prince has always denied any wrongdoing. Also: At least thirty people have been killed in Russian air strikes on two buses in Ukraine. And the BBC has announced it is scrapping a number of Radio 4 programmes, including You and Yours. (Image: Reuters)

Five former City traders who were sentenced to prison in one of the biggest scandals of the financial crisis have had their convictions overturned by the Court of Appeal. Also: Kemi Badenoch has told the Conservative conference in Birmingham that the party would scrap inheritance tax for family homes and cut welfare spending if it won the next election. And the Nobel chemistry prize is awarded for work on mirror image molecules. (Image: PA)

Police in France fire tear gas at protestors during the biggest demonstrations yet about conditions in schools. One of the unions organising rallies claimed 450,000 people took to the streets in more than thirty towns and cities. Police claim around half that number were involved. Many gatherings remained peaceful, but tensions were high in some places after a 15-year-old boy lost his hand when a stun grenade exploded in Lens yesterday. Hugh Schofield reports from Paris, Nick Beake from Lens and Mark Lowen from Marseille, with analysis from our Economics Editor Faisal Islam.
Two police officers who used pepper spray and a taser on a 92-year-old disabled man in his care home in East Sussex have been sacked. Stephen Smith and Rachel Comotto were called to Saint Leonards on Sea after Donald Burgess, who had dementia, threatened staff with his cutlery knife. Charlie Rose reports.
The Conservative leader, Kemi Badenoch, has ruled out forming a government with Reform UK if the next general election results in a hung parliament. She told the BBC she would rather have another election than do a deal with Reform's leader, Nigel Farage. Mrs Badenoch was speaking at the Conservative party conference in Birmingham. Our political editor Chris Mason reports.
The online fashion retailer, ASOS, says it is investigating unauthorised pop-up messages appearing on its app which claim the company had been hacked. Dozens of people have told the BBC they received a message on their phones' home screens, saying the firm's data management systems had been “fully compromised”. It's thought to be part of an attempt to blackmail the company. Chris Vallance reports.
And Professor Francis Halzen, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. He's behind an ambitious project at the South Pole. It's enabled scientists to detect more of a particular and especially important type of this elusive subatomic particle. Our science correspondent Victoria Gill reports.
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The American Vice President, JD Vance, has said the US acted out of an 'abundance of caution' when it removed its bombers from RAF Fairford yesterday. Also: A teenager's hand is blown off during nationwide student protests in France. And the joint winners of this year's Nobel Prize for Medicine are recognised for helping scientists learn more about the inner workings of the brain. (Image: PA)