The Times says 49% of A-level results will be A* or A on Tuesday morning. The paper says it has learnt almost half of all results will be the two highest grades – higher than last year.
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The climate crisis is “inevitable, unprecedented and irreversible” in the words of the Guardian. “The verdict is clear,” its leader column says. ‘There is no more room for delay’.
The i leads with bright red flames contrasted against its headline. The paper says that the UN has found global warming is set to breach the 1.5C limit 10 years earlier than predicted.
TRT World says R. Kelly, the R&B superstar who faces a battery of sex abuse charges in several US states, appeared in court as jury selection began in his federal New York trial.
The Guardian says 150,000 students who did not receive offers from any university, or missed their required grades at A-level, will be hunting for remaining places on Tuesday.
BBC News says a US woman who alleges she was brought to the UK aged 17 to have sex with the Duke of York has filed a civil lawsuit in New York claiming he abused her.
France24 says the Taliban seized a sixth Afghan provincial capital on Monday following a weekend blitz across the north that saw urban centres fall in quick succession.
Aljazeera says tensions over scarce fuel supplies in Lebanon descended into deadly violence involving guns, knives and a hand grenade on Monday, leaving three men dead.
Arab News says candidacy requirements to take part in Qatar’s Shoura Council elections have sparked widespread controversy on social media in the emirate, the BBC has reported.
“Pedal of honour” is the Sun’s headline as it reports that Olympic couple Jason and Laura Kenny will become a knight and a dame following their success at the Tokyo Games.
The Daily Mail leads with a report on the cost of coronavirus testing for foreign travel, which it says now amounts to five times the cost of cheap European flights.
The Metro leads with a dramatic photograph showing desperate attempts to fight wildfires on the Greek island of Evia leads under the heading “code red for humanity”.
Actress Milla Jovovich’s iconic bright copper hair from the 1997 film The Fifth Element is back!
We For India: Saving Lives: Annie Lennox, Ed Sheeran and Mick Jagger will join Bollywood superstars to raise funds for Covid relief work in India.
Anne Sacoolas – the suspect in the death of British teenager Harry Dunn – may have been “distracted by her mobile phone” before the fatal crash, his family lawyers claimed.
Business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has told Sky News the UK is “on track” to meet its “challenging” target of hitting net zero emissions by 2050.
National Geographic says climate change has already touched every corner of the planet and will continue to reshape the human experience for centuries to come.
The Guardian says human activity is changing the Earth’s climate in ways “unprecedented” in thousands of years, with some of the changes now inevitable and “irreversible”.
Daily Mail says the Earth is likely to warm by 1.5C within the next 20 years, a decade earlier than expected — and heatwaves, flooding and droughts will be more frequent.
The Sun says HUMANS are warming up the planet faster than ever before in a ‘code red’ for humanity, a damning climate change report warns today.
The i says the latest update to the UK’s traffic light travel restrictions came on Wednesday 4 August, with movement on all three lists.
The Guardian says the government has launched a £4m fund to back projects trialling running fibre optic broadband cables through water pipes to help connect hard-to-reach homes without digging up roads.
The Times says middle-class parents should open their minds to apprenticeships when their children receive their A-level results tomorrow, Gavin Williamson has said.
The Times says Afghanistan slid towards collapse yesterday as the Taliban stormed three more cities and pilots deserted the air force after a colleague was murdered.
The Guardian says an eight-year-old Hindu boy is being held in protective police custody in east Pakistan after becoming the youngest person ever to be charged with blasphemy in the country.