ANZ’s risky new CEO; Assads ‘like mafia’; ‘Shoebox’ fetches $850k

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In today’s news, ANZ’s left-field CEO pick piles risk upon risk, Bashar al-Assad flees Syria after running the country like the mafia, and a “shoebox” apartment sells for $850,000 in less than a day.