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The Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, has arrived in the southern state of Kerala to see for himself the devastation caused by what's been described as the worst floods there in a century. We hear from Ray Kancharla, Humanitarian Director for Save the Children and Tom Jose, Chief Secretary of Kerala State

More than a thousand employees at Google headquarters in California have signed a letter to management protesting about the development of search engine software that might enable the company to get back into China by conforming to Beijing's censorship rules. Dr Stephanie Hare is an independent technology researcher.

Pakistan's new Prime Minister, Imran Khan, will be sworn in on Saturday by the nation's president after securing the support of smaller parties to guarantee his election. We hear from Kharram Hussain, Business Editor at Dawn, Pakistan's oldest English language newspaper.

We review some of the big headlines of the past week with Nina Trentmann of the Wall Street Journal and Justin Fox of Bloomberg in New York.

Australia is back at the top of the global leader board - according to the federal Treasurer, Scott Morrison - with GDP growth of more than 3 per cent. But another gauge of national performance tells a very different story. National Australia Bank's Australian Wellbeing Index has fallen to its lowest level since it began five years ago. Phil Mercer reports from Sydney.

Picture description: Floods in Kerala
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