Malaysia’s parliament will convene Monday to decide on the country’s next prime minister after days of horse-trading failed to break an impasse, said Mahathir Mohamad.

Pakistan yesterday shut schools in several areas and suspended flights to and from Iran to try to stop the spread of new coronavirus, after reporting its first cases of the infection, officials said.

The Delhi High Court hearing a plea demanding registration of FIRs against certain BJP leaders who allegedly made hate speeches thereby inciting violence in Northeast Delhi, yesterday gave the Centre four weeks to file its response in the case while making it a party in the matter.

Moscow authorities are rounding up stray animals and exterminating rats as a precaution against the new coronavirus, actions that animal rights campaigners decry as cruel and scientifically groundless.

Twelve eminent citizens of Bangladesh today expressed grave concern over the ongoing spate of communal clashes in the Indian capital New Delhi -- between people for and against the new citizenship law in the country.

Iran's health ministry says its death toll from coronavirus has risen to 26 and the total number of infected people now stands at 245, the highest number of deaths from the virus outside China.

Malaysia’s parliament will vote on a new candidate for prime minister and if nobody can win majority support there will be a snap election, interim prime minister Mahathir Mohamad says.

Amid violence, there were many who whole-heartedly came out in support of those in need and offered help in every capacity. Gurdwaras in Delhi opened their doors for Muslim families forced to flee their homes. There were several warm stories of people saving lives of those targeted. In one such case, a Hindu man saved lives of his six Muslim neighbours when an unruly mob set their house on fire, reports India Times.

All Japan’s elementary, junior and high schools will be asked to close from March 2 until their upcoming spring break to help contain the coronavirus outbreak, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe tells a task force fighting the virus.

Sporadic violence hit parts of Delhi overnight as gangs roamed streets littered with the debris of days of violence that have killed 33 people, police say.

A gunman has killed five co-workers at one of America's best-known breweries before turning the weapon on himself in the latest burst of mass gun violence in the US.

Hotstar, India’s largest on-demand video streaming service and a subsidiary of global media powerhouse Disney, has blocked the latest episode of HBO’s “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” that dealt with a critical view of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, reports US-based technology publication Tech Crunch.

Saudi Arabia suspends foreigners' entry for the Umrah pilgrimage and tourism from countries where the new coronavirus has spread, as a growing number of cases outside China deepened fears of a pandemic.

Delhi High Court Judge Justice S Muralidhar, who grilled the Indian centre and state government on Wednesday over the violence in the capital that left 27 dead and over 200 injured, has been transferred to the Punjab and Haryana High Court.

The Scottish parliament has approved plans to make sanitary products freely available to all women, the first nation in the world to do so.

About 14 percent of patients who recovered from the novel coronavirus and were discharged from hospitals in southern China’s Guangdong province were tested positive again in later check-ups, according to the local health authority.

Sri Lanka yesterday notified the UN that it was withdrawing from a United Nations resolution for investigating alleged war crimes committed during a decades-long conflict with Tamil separatists.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday vowed Turkey would not take the “smallest step back” in an escalating stand-off with Damascus and Russia over the northern Syrian region of Idlib.

Egypt held a military funeral yesterday for its former president Hosni Mubarak, bestowing the state’s final rehabilitation on the man who ruled for 30 years until he was ousted in disgrace in a 2011 popular uprising.

Malaysia was plunged into a bitter power struggle yesterday as Mahathir Mohamad sought to form a unity government following his shock resignation, but old foe Anwar Ibrahim also pushed to become premier.