News in pictures: UK COVID restrictions, Tesla in Singapore?, man killed over Dh15 in India, Vatican-China deal, prisoner digs tunnel and escapes, race to save whales in Australia…

TESLA TO ENTER SINGAPORE? Tesla Inc. posted fresh job ads for roles based in Singapore, signaling Elon Musk's electric-vehicle maker is preparing to set up shop in the wealthy city-state it has so far skirted. The car manufacturer is looking for senior developers in Singapore, according to job postings on LinkedIn, which didn't disclose how many people are sought. In July, Tesla began advertising for positions such as store leader and sales advisers in the city. A Tesla representative in Beijing declined to comment. https://gulfnews.com/business

UK PUBLIC TO WORK FROM HOME: The UK government is telling the public to work from home again if possible, as Prime Minister Boris Johnson prepares to announce new restrictions on bars and restaurants in a bid to halt a surge in coronavirus cases. "If it is possible for people to work from home, then we'd encourage them to do so," Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove said on Sky News on Tuesday. "There is going to be a shift in emphasis." The new work-from-home advice comes as the government prepares to order hospitality venues across England to close by 10 pm from Thursday, as ministers clamp down on socializing. https://gulfnews.com/world/europe

LEOPARD CUBS DIE AT LION SAFARI IN INDIA: Three leopard cubs brought to the Etawah lion safari in India from Bijnor have died after falling ill, officials said. The cubs took ill about a week ago and were being treated by a team of doctors, B K Singh, director of the lion safari, said. The director of Kanpur zoo, R K Singh, was being consulted for the treatment, and he came here as well but the cubs died on Monday, he said. The bodies have been sent to the Indian Veterinary Research Institute in Bareilly for post-mortem examinations, B K Singh added. https://gulfnews.com/world/asia/india

20 PEOPLE, INCLUDING A FATHER AND SON, JAILED: Twenty people, including a father and son, were jailed Tuesday for the bombing of a police station in Ho Chi Minh City that injured three people, state media said. Authorities said the June 2018 attack was orchestrated by "terrorists" connected to Trieu Dai Viet, a Canada-based Vietnamese group seeking to overthrow the communist state. Nguyen Khanh, the architect of the attack, was sentenced to 24 years in prison for "terrorism against the people's administration" and "illegally fabricating, storing and trading explosives", according to state media. His son Nguyen Tan Thanh was sentenced to three years in jail, while 18 accomplices will serve from two to 18 years. The trial lasted a day and a half. https://gulfnews.com/world

MAN KILLED IN UP, INDIA, OVER RS300 (DH15): Apparently in a drunken stupor, three men killed their neighbour with a wooden stick, fitted with nails, following a dispute over Rs300 (Dh15). The police claimed that all of the accused were in an inebriated state. The incident took place in Ganj area in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The victim, identified as 24-year-old Deepak sustained multiple injuries on his body and succumbed to the injuries on way to the hospital. https://gulfnews.com/world/asia/india

LUFTHANSA’S COST-SAVING MEASURES: Due to the severe impact of the COVID-19 crisis on air traffic, German flag carrier Lufthansa has announced further cost-saving measures. The airline would implement a "permanent capacity reduction" of 150 aircraft by the middle of this decade, reports Xinhua news agency. After six Airbus A380s, the world's largest passenger plane, were taken out of service earlier this year, Lufthansa announced the transfer of the remaining eight A380s as well as 10 A340-600s to long-term storage. They will only be reactivated "in the event of an unexpectedly rapid market recovery". https://gulfnews.com/business

LONDON STOCKS REBOUND: London shares rebounded slightly on Tuesday from their worst sell-off in more than three months as investors awaited details of new lockdown restrictions liable to deliver another blow to Britain's struggling domestic economy. The blue-chip FTSE 100 index rose 0.6%, recovering a little of Monday's almost 3.5% loss as investors in its largely externally-focused stocks took faith from a strengthening of the dollar. https://gulfnews.com/business

VATICAN, CHINA PREPARE TO RENEW HISTORIC DEAL: The Vatican and China are preparing to renew a historic deal on the appointment of bishops that has slightly thawed icy relations. Pope Francis has been working hard to repair ties with the Communist country. China's roughly 12 million Catholics have for decades been split between a government-run association, whose clergy are chosen by the atheist Communist Party, and an unofficial underground church loyal to the Vatican. After years of snail-pace negotiations, the Vatican sealed a historical "provisional" agreement with Beijing on 22 September 2018, the exact content of which has never been published. The key novelty however was that both Beijing and the Vatican now have a say in appointing Catholic bishops. https://gulfnews.com/world

RACE TO SAVE 180 STRANDED WHALES IN AUSTRALIA: Up to 90 whales have died after becoming stranded in a remote bay in southern Australia, with rescuers warning Tuesday the mission to save another 180 still stuck will prove "challenging". Scientists said two large pods of long-finned pilot whales became stuck on sandbars in Macquarie Harbour, on Tasmania's rugged and sparsely populated west coast. Images from the scene showed shallow water thick with scores of the large slick-black mammals manoeuvering for space. Rescuers could be seen wading in the water to reach the whales as they attempted to refloat them in deeper passages. https://gulfnews.com/world

LUCKIN COFFEE, ASSOCIATED FIRMS FINED $9 MILLION: Embattled Chinese chain Luckin Coffee is among a raft of 45 companies hit with a combined fine of nearly $9 million over a scandal involving false sales figures, China's market regulator said Tuesday. Luckin - Starbucks' rival in China - had boosted transactions last year through fake coupons by 2.25 billion yuan ($330 million) and inflated its revenue by some 2.12 billion yuan, according to an earlier probe by the finance ministry. The scandal led to the company being delisted from New York's Nasdaq and the removal of top executives. On Tuesday, China's State Administration for Market Regulation said investigations found that Luckin, with the help of other companies, had falsely increased its 2019 sales revenue, costs and profit margins, and imposed a combined fine of 61 million yuan. https://gulfnews.com/business

WORLDWIDE CORONAVIRUS CASES CROSS 31.21 MILLION: More than 31.21 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 962,705? have died, according to a Reuters tally published on Tuesday. According to the report, the United States topped the list with 6,866,308 cases and 199,924 deaths; followed by India with 5,487,580 cases and 87,882 deaths; then Brazil with 4,558,068 cases and 137,272 deaths; and Russia with 1,109,595 cases and 19,489 deaths. Infections have been reported in more than 210 countries and territories since the first cases were identified in China in December 2019. https://gulfnews.com/world

OPPOSITION MEMBERS STAGE WALKOUT IN INDIA: Indian opposition party leaders staged a walk-out from the Rajya Sabha and held a protest before the Gandhi statue in the Parliament premises on Tuesday. Parliamentarians from Congress, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Shiv Sena, Trinamool Congress (TMC), Communist Party of India (Marxist) boycotted the house demanding revocation of suspension of the eight MPs. https://gulfnews.com/world/asia/india

DEATH-ROW INMATE DIGS 30-METRE TUNNEL AND ESCAPES: A Chinese drug trafficker on death row escaped from a jail near Indonesia's capital after digging a 30-metre (100 feet) tunnel from his cell, police said. Cai Ji Fan, sentenced to death in 2017 for trafficking 110 kilogrammes (230 pounds) of methamphetamine, broke out of Tangerang prison in Banten last week via the narrow tunnel, which connected to a sewer, officials said. "This is the second time he escaped," said Tangerang police's chief Sugeng Hariyanto, adding he also managed to get out of the National Police Criminal Investigation Department cells in Jakarta while on remand.

KERALA TO HAVE ONE OF THE FIRST MEDICAL DEVICE PARKS: South Indian state of Kerala will soon house one of the first medical device parks in the country, focusing on the high-risk medical device sector to provide a full range of services for the medical devices industry like Research and Development support, testing, and evaluation. According to an official release of the Union Ministry of Science and Technology, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan will lay the foundation stone for Medical Devices Park on Thursday. MedSpark, the medical devices park envisaged as a joint initiative of Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences & Technology, Government of India, and the Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation Ltd, the industrial and investment promotion agency of the Government of Kerala, is going to be established in the Life Science Park, Thonnakkal, Thiruvananthapuram.