UK - The Independent

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1. Voices: David Hockney, my kind, generous friend, taught the world to see beauty

   Geordie Greig, who was close to David Hockney for more than 50 years, interviewed him countless times, sat for him and drove round the Hollywood Hills with him, pays tribute to his witty and wonderful friend

2. Facebook down: Messenger and app not working in huge outage

   Facebook has gone down in what appears to be a huge outage.

3. World champion runner Gudaf Tsegay hit with four-month doping ban

   Tsegay is now unlikely to compete again this season after her ban was confirmed on Friday

4. Meet the Press host shares Trump’s parting words after he stormed out of barn interview

5. Murderer drove 50 miles with partner and children in car to kill business associate over debts

   The killer fled after the stabbing before briefly returning to retrieve the mobile phone he had dropped

6. The travel vaccines that you should consider before going overseas

   Although infectious diseases exist everywhere, in some destinations there is a higher risk of becoming sick

7. Trump is pushing to have Congress ‘expunge’ his impeachments - even without a law saying its possible

   The president said Congress should pass the resolution to scrub his first-term impeachments, claiming he did ‘nothing wrong’

8. Facebook and Messenger go down as users report major outage

9. Why a bleak poll on Russia’s economy spells bad news for Putin as war in Ukraine bites

   As Ukrainian attacks on Russian energy infrastructure and EU sanctions take their toll, Russian citizens are increasingly feeling the squeeze

10. Starmer latest: PM vows to fight Burnham if ‘chaotic’ leadership election is triggered

    Sir Keir Starmer says he has taken ‘hard-edged’ decisions to increase defending spending