Top results for Malala in school exams

Malala Yousafzai, the teenage education rights campaigner who came to Britain after the Pakistani Taliban tried to kill her, has scored high marks in national school exams, her father said yesterday.

Malala, shot in the head three years ago for championing girls' rights to education, gained six A* grades, the highest possible, and four As, the second highest, in her GCSEs.

Her top grades were in biology, chemistry, physics, religious studies and two maths exams.

She now lives permanently in Birmingham, central England, with her family and attends an all-girls school.

Malala, who hopes one day to be prime minister of Pakistan, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 jointly with India's Kailash Satyarthi for promoting education rights for children.