BBC News

1. Government abandons plans to delay 30 council elections

   All English elections will now go ahead as originally planned after Reform UK brought a legal challenge over the decision to delay some polls.

2. Students begin Covid compensation claim against 36 more universities

   It comes after University College London settled a claim from students there over lost learning in the pandemic.

3. Teenagers guilty of killing man they thought was a paedophile

   Alexander Cashford was chased and hit with rocks and a bottle before he died.

4. US build-up of warships and fighter jets tracked near Iran

   BBC Verify has seen US aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln near Iran ahead of talks between the two countries

5. Actor Robert Duvall, who starred in The Godfather, dies aged 95

   The Oscar-winner died "peacefully" at his home in Middleburg, Virginia, on Sunday, his family says.