Changes could be made to exams in 2022 and thereafter to take into account the disruption faced by pupils because of the coronavirus pandemic, the education secretary has suggested.
As Moscow swelters in the warmest temperatures for 120 years, it is also setting dangerous new records in terms of COVID-19 infections - a third wave driven by the Delta variant.
Russian forces fired warning shots at a Royal Navy destroyer after it entered the country's territorial waters in the Black Sea, the Russian Defence Ministry has said.