It aims to challenge the West and could rival the G7. What is BRICS?

It aims to challenge the West and could rival the G7. What is BRICS?

For China,BRICS is another powerful engine for it to spread its influence around the world,particularly in developing nations.

  • byLucy Cormack

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‘Victory cry’:India becomes fourth country to land a spacecraft on the moon

‘Victory cry’:India becomes fourth country to land a spacecraft on the moon

The feat cements the country’s growing prowess in space and technology as it joins the United States,the Soviet Union and China in achieving a moon landing.

  • byAshok Sharma
Confrontation hangs in the air at BRICS summit after China,Russia addresses

Confrontation hangs in the air at BRICS summit after China,Russia addresses

Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin’s words to the opening of the three-day summit in South Africa were combative and had one particular other country in mind.

  • byS'thembile Cele
It’s one of the truly great destinations in the world. But we just don’t get it

It’s one of the truly great destinations in the world. But we just don’t get it

So many of us don’t have a clue about India on any deep level,about anything beyond Bollywood,cricket and the Taj Mahal.

  • byBen Groundwater
‘I’m not ashamed’:Sunny Leone’s journey from adult film to Bollywood

‘I’m not ashamed’:Sunny Leone’s journey from adult film to Bollywood

Sunny Leone got her start in the adult film business before joining the mainstream of Indian cinema a decade ago. Now on a visit to Melbourne to promote the thriller Kennedy,she thinks she may have finally arrived.

  • byKarl Quinn
New images of moon close up as India and Russia race to its south pole

New images of moon close up as India and Russia race to its south pole

Both India and Russia have national interests in successful landings and in claiming the historic first at stake.

  • byNivedita Bhattacharjee
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Russian lander races to find water on moon ahead of Indian craft

Russian lander races to find water on moon ahead of Indian craft

Moscow has launched its first moon-landing spacecraft in 47 years. There’s a lot riding on it.

  • byGuy Faulconbridge andJoey Roulette
Former pleasure palace now a glorious haven of tranquillity

Former pleasure palace now a glorious haven of tranquillity

With exquisite guest rooms and suites,lush tropical gardens,and open-air pavilions,Rajbari Bawali truly captures an era of privilege and opulence.

  • byJulie Miller
‘Space for everyone’:Russia to launch first moon lander since 1976

‘Space for everyone’:Russia to launch first moon lander since 1976

Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft is on a timetable that implies it could match or narrowly beat its Indian rival to the moon’s surface.

  • byMark Trevelyan andLidia Kelly
‘I’m not a trained diplomat,I’m a recovering politician’:Lunch with Barry O’Farrell

‘I’m not a trained diplomat,I’m a recovering politician’:Lunch with Barry O’Farrell

The former premier had never lived overseas. Then he became ambassador to India.

  • byMatt Wade
Lucky 11:Friends share a $4 lottery ticket and a fortune in prize

Lucky 11:Friends share a $4 lottery ticket and a fortune in prize

The 11 Indian workers spend their days collecting household rubbish and building public toilets. They could not afford the ticket individually.

  • bySuhasini Raj andMike Ives