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Images of a model depicting the trajectory of Japan's Moon craft, which has landed on the lunar surface, space agency JAXA announces. IMAGES
Leaders of the BRICS countries arrive for the opening plenary session of the summit. IMAGES
Xi Jinping inspects the guard of honour at Mahlamba Ndlopfu, the Presidential Palace in Pretoria. The Chinese president is in South Africa attending the BRICS summit, an association of emerging economy countries which includes Brazil, Russia, India, China and this year's host, South Africa. IMAGES
Crashing waves pounded the coastline of India and Pakistan on Thursday, hours before the landfall. Biparjoy, a cyclone whose name means "disaster" in Bengali, is making its way across the Arabian Sea and is expected to make landfall as a "very severe cyclonic storm" on Thursday evening. IMAGES
Scene from the beach town of Mandvi around 100 kilometres southeast of Jakhau Port where Cyclone Biparjoy is expected to make landfall. IMAGES
India will overtake China as the world's most populous country this week, hitting almost 1.43 billion people, the United Nations says. "India is projected to overtake China as the world's most populous country during the current month - April of 2023," says John Wilmoth, Director, Population Division, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs. "Projections indicate that the size of the Chinese population could drop below 1 billion before the end of the century. In India, by contrast the population is expected to continue growing for several decades," he adds. SOUNDBITE
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