Elon Musk makes a bid to buy Twitter

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Tesla boss Elon Musk has offered to buy Twitter, saying he is the right person to "unlock" the social media platform's "extraordinary potential". In a surprise announcement, Mr Musk said he would pay $54.20 a share for Twitter, valuing it at about $40bn. We get the details from the BBC's Michelle Fleury in New York, and further analysis from tech journalist Chris Stokel-Walker. Plus, in Sri Lanka, protests continue and the financial chaos deepens as two of the world's biggest credit ratings agencies said they expected the country to default on its foreign debts. We ask journalist Dimuthu Attanayake about what might happen next. And Nepal says it’s considering declaring a two-day weekend, instead of its Saturday only weekend, as part of measures to reduce the consumption of petroleum products; The BBC’s Anbarasan Ethirajan reports from Kathmandu. And following a boom in pet ownership during the pandemic, services for those dogs and cats are springing up - we hear from Donna Connelly, owner of Angel's Pet Care and Barking Mad Dog Training in Newcastle. (Picture of Elon Musk and Twitter logo on a phone, via Getty Images)