Main news of August 30

RUSSIA

* President Dmitry Medvedev said in a TV interview that the Russian education system needs to be modernized to meet the challenges of the 21st century

* Rescuers recovered another body at Russia's largest hydropower plant, hit by a disaster earlier this month, bringing the death toll to 72, a source in the rescue team said

* A pensioner in Russia's Yaroslavl Region shot three neighbors dead with a hunting rifle before killing himself, local police said

WORLD

* The Belarusian Defense Ministry has confirmed the deaths of two Air Force pilots in a fighter jet crash at an air show in central Poland

* With voting over in Japan's general election, exit polls suggest that the opposition has secured an overwhelming victory over the conservative party, which has held power for most of the past 50 years

* A suicide bomber entered a police training center in northwest Pakistan on Sunday, and killed at least 14 police cadets, officials said