School children are having their health and happiness neglected because they focus purely on academic achievement, experts have warned. A report published in the BMJ warned focusing solely on achievement could push pupils towards "risky" behaviour.
The UK needs to "nail down rigorous academic standards" in its education system, according to a leading columnist.
Angela Epstein dismissed calls for more to be done to protect children's wellbeing as schools took a tougher academic focus.
She said: "We have poor standards of numeracy and literacy in this country. Children learn by being amongst their peers and by children being children."
Grace Mugabe, the wife of Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe, has returned home from Johannesburg.
Barcelona players and fans joined together in a minute's silence to remember the victims of Thursday's terror attack in the city.
Comedian and film star Jerry Lewis has died in his Las Vegas home at the age of 91.