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Our editors will be looking ahead today to these developing stories ...

A new leader for cultural district

Australian arts administrator Michael Lynch is expected to be appointed today as head of the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority. Lynch, formerly chief executive of the Southbank Centre in London and the Sydney Opera House, would replace Graham Sheffield, who quit abruptly early this year, citing ill health.

Fire safety hot topic in Beijing

The Beijing municipal government will hold a press conference on fire safety today. The capital is under pressure to improve fire safety after a blaze killed 17 people and injured 24 in the Daxing district on April 25. Most of the victims were workers in an illegally constructed four-storey building housing many garment sweatshops.

Air France crash data to be revealed

Investigators are expected to release information about an Air France plane's plunge into the Atlantic Ocean in June 2009, which cost 228 lives. The data comes from two flight recorders, or black boxes, recovered from the sea bed early this month.

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