Year: 2021

The i says a South Korean broadcaster has apologised after it aired “inappropriate” pictures to represent countries during its coverage of the Tokyo Olympic Games opening ceremony.

The Guardian says fresh off his trip to space, Jeff Bezos on Monday offered to cover up to $2bn in Nasa costs if the US space agency awards his company Blue Origin

The Times says Jeff Bezos has offered to bankroll America’s return to the moon to the tune of more than $2 billion (£1.5 billion) to help bridge a Nasa funding shortfall.

The i says Britons are more likely than not to back the sacking of people from their jobs for saying something “grossly offensive”, polling today suggests.

“Three gold medals before breakfast” is how the i covers Team GB’s stirring start to the week in Tokyo. The paper’s front splash features pictures of Team GB’s gold medalists.

“PM gets tough on burglars” is the Times’ headline, which says Boris Johnson is trying to shift the focus of his premiership from the pandemic.

The Guardian leads with a photo of diving gold medallist Tom Daley with tears in his eyes at the Olympics 2020. “I’m proud to say I am a gay man, and also an Olympic champion”.

VOA says the final victim of the condo building collapse in Florida has been identified, a relative said Monday, more than a month after the middle-of-the-night catastrophe.

TRT World says street clashes have erupted outside Tunisia’s army-barricaded parliament, a day after President Kais Saied fired the PM and suspended the legislature.

Aljazeera says that Tong Ying-kit buzzed his motorcycle past a cheering crowd and angry police is not in question, nor that his bike crashed and injured three police.