Anil Swarup is just the kind of man Prime Minister Narendra Modi is relying on to fix India - a high-flying civil servant with a taste for complex policy and swift decisions.
The mayor of the G20 host city "welcomed the world" on Friday and said Brisbane was ready to hold the biggest event in its history.
Choe Ryong-hae, a senior official of the ruling party of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, is to visit Russia as a special envoy of DPRK top leader Kim Jong-un, the Korean Central News Agency said on Friday.
A surgeon working in Sierra Leone has been diagnosed with Ebola and will be flown to the United States for treatment on Saturday, according to a source in the US federal government with direct knowledge of the case.
Tension is growing in Ferguson, Missouri, in the runup to the announcement of a grand jury decision over whether to charge the officer responsible for the shooting of unarmed black man Michael Brown, 18.
British Prime Minister David Cameron outlined plans on Friday to seize passports from British jihadists and stop them returning from fighting overseas, while proposing landing bans on airlines that fail to comply with London's no-fly lists.
US President Barack Obama is poised to unveil executive action that will shield as many as 5 million immigrants living in the United States illegally from deportation, according to advocates in touch with the White House, an order that is likely to set up a confrontation with Republican leaders.
Russia may demand monetary compensation unless France delivers the first of two Mistral helicopter carriers by the end of November, state news agency RIA quoted an unnamed source as saying on Friday.
Economists say reduction in 2015 GDP goal appears increasingly likely
Operators say flying to remote locations will be as easy as hailing a cab, reports Wang Wen in Zhuhai.
The Shanghai municipal government relaxed definitions for ordinary homes on Thursday, the first revision since March 2012, which will allow more home buyers to enjoy preferential mortgages.
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