October 20 (Quartz) - Nine months into the pandemic, Europe remains one of the regions worst affected by Covid-19. Ten of the 20 countries with the highest death count per million people are European. The other 10 are in the Americas. This includes the US, which has the highest number of confirmed cases and deaths in the world. Most of...

October 20 (Sky News) - The Finnish company will build the technology which will be integrated into NASA's lunar landers and used for remote control, as well as streaming high-definition videos. The Artemis programme, named after the mythological sister of Apollo, the first moon mission's namesake, aims to take the first woman and the next man taken to the lunar surface...

October 20 (AFP) - Pakistan said Monday it would lift a recent ban on the video-sharing app TikTok after assurances that "immoral" content would be blocked. The Chinese-owned platform, which is wildly popular among the country's youth, was banned earlier this month over what authorities in the ultra-conservative Islamic country deemed "immoral, obscene and vulgar" content. But the Pakistan Telecommunication...

October 20 (AFP) - A popular actor who was set to star as Sri Lanka's legendary spinner Muttiah Muralitharan in a biopic withdrew from the project on Monday after the cricketer warned he could face a backlash from India's Tamil minority. © Sujit Jaiswal Vijay Sethupathi (right) at a film premiere in 2019 with Kichcha Sudeep (left)...

October 20 (Reuters) - Britain and the United States on Monday condemned what they said were a series of malicious cyberattacks orchestrated by Russian military intelligence, including attempts to disrupt the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. The Games were originally set for this year but postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Chief cabinet secretary Katsunobu Kato also told a news conference...