President Joe Biden has tested positive for COVID-19 one day after visiting Massachusetts.

A furniture company in the US is developing bulletproof desks for schools. Tennessee-based First Line Furniture has teamed up with the creators of ballistic tables with the aim of distributing them in schools to protect students from shootings. In an NBC video, a demonstrator shows how teachers or students can roll the desks up against a door and lock the wheels.

Vladimir Putin works his Middle East connections. For his first international outing since the war in Ukraine, he went to Iran to meet with supreme leader Ali Khamenei and Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Iran and Russia are seeking closer ties in the face of Western sanctions. Also on the agenda: negotiations over blockaded imports of Ukrainian grain and the situation in Syria.

From Russian troops' continued bombardment of Kharkiv to rumours about Putin and Zelenskyy's ill health dismissed, here are some of the most important developments about the war in Ukraine.

Iraqi protesters gathered outside the Turkish consulate in Basra on July 21 after Turkish artillery strikes reportedly killed at least eight people and wounded at least 23 at a resort in Dohuk, Kurdistan, a day earlier.“Once again, the Turkish forces committed an explicit and blatant violation of the sovereignty of Iraq, and the lives and security of Iraqi citizens,” said Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, Iraq’s Prime Minister, in an official statement on Twitter. He said that most of the casualties were women and children.Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu denied both official and unofficial claims that Turkish forces carried out the attack during a live broadcast with Turkish state media, reported TRT.The footage shows a crowd gathered outside of the Turkish consulate in Basra, where protesters can be seen briefly engaging with security forces clad in protective gear. At one point, protesters set fire to a poster with Turkish President Recep Erdogan’s face alongside the Turkish flag.According to journalist Hassan Sabah, who shot the video, at the end of the footage, security forces can be seen distributing cold drinking water to the protesters as temperatures reached about 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit). Credit: Hassan Sabah via Storyful

WOMEN involved in sex work have told the Scottish Government that current legislation around prostitution means they would not contact police, even if they were raped.

Members tend to come from particular backgrounds, age groups and parts of the country

During the pandemic Wicks livestreamed workouts for young people and their families to keep fit during lockdown.

The teenager is believed to have entered the water to cool off during the heatwave on Monday

The head of a South Korean investigative panel has accused the previous government of falsely claiming that two North Korean defectors had killed 16 people before defecting to the South in order to have them swiftly returned to the North.

There are many factories around the world, but few look anything like semiconductor fabs. Up until recently, few were aware that the UK hosts one of these spaceship-style plants as well - yet the Newport Wafer Fab (NWF) has for decades been a quietly important part of this constellation of critical locations, producing the tiny silicon chips that help make the modern world go round. The latest of these headlines has concerned a decision by Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng to review the deal, which went through last year, on national security grounds.

Carlos Cope, 24, was found guilty of rape and assault after a week-long trial and sentenced at Warwick Crown Court.

Ukrainian forces have struck and seriously damaged a bridge that is key for supplying Russian troops in southern Ukraine

A UPS driver was doing fine after collapsing on a porch whilst delivery parcels in hot conditions in Scottsdale, Arizona, on July 14, according to UPS.Brian Enriquez’s home surveillance camera captured the moment the UPS driver staggers toward his door before collapsing on the floor. After a short rest, the man stands up and stomps away.Enriquez told Storyful that he called the police and asked the officers to check the driver. “I was concerned about him passing out again,” Enriquez said.UPS said in the statement that the driver was fine, according to NBC.The local Weather National Service recorded a temperature of 111 Fahrenheit degrees (approximately 43.8 Celsius degrees) in Phoenix on July 14. The weather service said the number was four degrees above the climatological normal. Credit: Brian Enriquez via Storyful

A new gene therapy can substantially cut the risk of bleeding in people with the rare condition haemophilia B, according to a new study. Researchers found people who received a single injection of the gene therapy, called FLT180a, did not need to inject themselves every week with clotting factors - proteins that help control bleeding. Haemophilia is a rare condition that impacts the blood's ability to clot.

Sir Keir Starmer has revealed he "hated" being subject to a criminal investigation over beergate and the potential breach of COVID rules, and that waiting to hear if he would be exonerated was a "burden every day". In an interview with Sky News' Beth Rigby interviews programme, the Labour leader opened up about the moment he found out police would be investigating a video of him drinking beer over a takeaway curry with colleagues in a Durham constituency office, when social distancing rules were still in place. Sir Keir, who was cleared by Durham Police last month, said he was always confident had had broken no rules, but that it was a "big moment" when the decision was made to investigate him.

York Racecourse and Sky Bet team up to give Yorkshire-based good causes opportunity to win £20,000 donation in sweepstake style campaign

The cost of solar and wind energy keeps going down - now we need storage to take fossil fuels out of the picture completely.

The former chancellor said he would scrap a plan to relax the ban on new onshore wind farms in England, instead focusing on offshore turbines.

LONDON (Reuters) -Britain gave consent for the planned Sizewell C nuclear plant to be built in southeast England, the government's business department said on Wednesday, giving a boost to a project that is expected to help the country achieve its net-zero goals. The plant, which would be capable of producing 3.2 gigawatts of electricity or enough to power around 6 million homes, is majority-owned by French utility EDF and is to be built in Sizewell, a small fishing village in Suffolk. Britain hopes the new nuclear plant will help to bolster its pledge to be more energy independent in the long term as countries across the world race to reduce dependence on external sources for energy after the Russia-Ukraine conflict sent gas prices soaring.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s dismissal of senior officials is casting an inconvenient light on an issue that the Biden administration has largely ignored since the outbreak of war with Russia