The Independent says pupils across the country are set to receive their GCSE results this morning, which are expected to contain a record number of top results.
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The Independent says it was only penalties, and it was close, but it might have been in some way symbolic.
The Guardian says you have to go back to the visit of West Indies to Old Trafford in 2007 for the previous time England went into a “live” home Test without either Jimmy Anderson or Stuart Broad.
The i says crowd safety research gathered during a Government pilot event at Wembley will not be released before the Premier League restart this weekend.
Ministers are backing a pilot where air purifiers are installed in classrooms as part of efforts to keep schools open and safe from COVID this autumn, says the i paper.
The Guardian reports a “pandemic boom” in child poverty and abuse. It says there is a “looming crisis” of child neglect amid a sharp rise in social services referrals since Covid struck.
The Independent says US authorities are growing increasingly frustrated with Prince Andrew’s failure to cooperate into their probe of the network surrounding convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
GCSEs 2021: BBC News says hundreds of thousands of pupils are finding out their GCSE results, amid predictions of another spike in grades after exams were cancelled.
VOA says California will require that all teachers and school staff be vaccinated or undergo weekly COVID-19 testing, Gavin Newsom said. No other state has enacted such a requirement.
France24 says initially spared the worst of the Covid-19 virus, more children and teens are experiencing “long Covid” with medical clinics cropping up to treat their symptoms.
TRT World says wildfires tearing through forested areas of northern Algeria have killed at least 65 people, state TV reported, as some of the most destructive blazes in the country’s history continued to rage.
Aljazeera says Australia’s capital Canberra has announced a snap one-week lockdown after reporting its first locally acquired case of COVID-19 in more than a year.
Arab News says Kuwait has expressed its “deep concern” over the serious consequences of threatening the safety of maritime navigation in the Arabian Gulf, Sea of Oman and Arabian Sea.
“Return to the dark ages” says the Metro as it reports the terror of displaced Afghans who are facing the threat of the Taliban. It says fighters have celebrated the seizure of swathes of territory.
The arrest of a British embassy worker in Germany accused of passing on classified documents to a Russian spy has echoes of the Cold War for the Daily Mail.
The Daily Mirror says German prosecutors believe the security worker passed on documents “on at least one occasion”. It says an “MI5-led” operation resulted in the man being detained.
The US Sun says MAKEUP mogul Kylie Jenner has grown up in front of cameras and it’s no secret she has possibly become the most popular of the Kardashian-Jenner sisters.
The Sun says KYLIE Jenner hid her tummy amid pregnancy rumors. The TV personality went braless in a busty green sweater dress on her 24th birthday.
The Daily Mail says Kim Kardashian famously caused a storm when she showed off North West’s impressive art skills earlier this year – with critics claiming they were lying.
The Daily Mirror says Travis Scott whipped up a social media storm by posting a sizzling snap of girlfriend Kylie Jenner wearing a plunging lace-up top to celebrate her birthday.
The Times says high achievers have been turned away from leading Scottish universities due to huge demand for places after a second year of rampant grade inflation.
The Guardian says Facebook has removed hundreds of accounts linked to a mysterious advertising agency operating from Russia that sought to pay social media influencers to smear Covid-19 vaccines made by Pfizer and AstraZeneca.
The i says Prince Andrew arrived at Balmoral for a holiday with the Queen last night 24 hours after a lawsuit accused him of sex abuse.
Lithuania’s parliament has voted to build a fence on the Belarus border to stop Iraqis, Afghans and other non-EU migrants entering.
The Guardian says the Taliban have captured the key Afghan city of Pul-e-Khumri, 140 miles north of the capital Kabul, giving the insurgents control of a strategic road junction linking Kabul to the north and west
