UK - The Independent

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1. Simple Minds and Chaka Khan to headline star-studded Radio 2 festival

   The Script, ABC, Blue and Cast are amongst the other acts appearing at the festival in Stirling

2. Queen’s LIVE: Serena Williams makes return to tennis after Emma Raducanu in singles action

   Williams, 44, will partner Victoria Mboko as they face third seeds Nicole Melichar-Martinez and Erin Routliffe in doubles action

3. Electrician jailed for life for stabbing partner to death and blowing up London home

   Clifton George murdered Annabel Rook after she said they should end their relationship

4. London man sentenced over brutal murder of charity worker

5. PwC under investigation by accounting watchdog over WH Smith audit

   WH Smith admitted last year it overstated profits for its North American business by as much as £50 million because of an accounting blunder.

6. Ben Stokes’ England captaincy ‘in severe doubt’ after nightclub incident, David Gower says

   The ECB, the Cricket Regulator and Saracens are investigating events which took place at a London nightclub

7. The station that shamed New York is finally getting an $8bn makeover

   Renderings of a dramatically redesigned Pennsylvania Station in New York City have been released by Amtrak and the developers it has selected for the estimated $8 billion project

8. Train passenger who harassed woman sentenced in first prosecution under new law

   David Stroud committed offence on train to London just two days after new law came into force

9. At least 37 dead as Philippines hit by strongest earthquake in half a century

   Scale of damage beginning to emerge as close to 500 people reported injured

10. Wizz Air to become first European budget airline to offer Starlink wifi