Lord Mandelson is to step down from the House of Lords

The BBC understands that the Metropolitan Police is to launch a criminal investigation into claims that Lord Mandelson passed market-sensitive information to the paedophile financier, Jeffrey Epstein. Also: President Zelensky says Russia has used a record number of ballistic missiles to target Ukraine's energy sector. And rescue teams in Australia have described a teenager who saved his family after they were swept out to sea as "superhuman".