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Today on The World: Afghanistan’s embattled president agrees to a run-off election in November;Also, China launches an effort to catalogue cultural artifacts it says were looted from China more than a century ago; And how digital technology makes it harder to forget even that which may be best forgotten.

See also

• October 20, 2009 -- Afghan election goes to run-off
• October 20, 2009 -- China’s lost art
• October 20, 2009 -- Egypt to ban full women’s veils
• October 20, 2009 -- Peruvian fog nets