Experts say too early to tell if China outbreak contained.

There were 2,478 new confirmed cases on the mainland on February 10, down from 3,062 on the previous day.

Hubei province, the epicenter of the epidemic, reported 70 new deaths on Wednesday and 2,987 new confirmed cases - more than 80% of the total reported by Chinese authorities.

The death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in China had reached 304 as of the end of Saturday, state broadcaster CCTV said on Sunday.

Brexit proponents hope the departure will herald reforms to reshape Britain and propel it ahead of its European rivals.

The WHO move will trigger tighter containment and information-sharing guidelines to all countries, but may disappoint Beijing, which had expressed confidence it can beat the "devil" virus.

India became the latest country to report a case - a student of Wuhan University - while anger and fear brought protests in South Korea and threats of strikes Hong Kong.

Local authorities are trying to locate the wreckage in a mountainous area which is partly controlled by the Taliban.

Magnitude 6.8 quake hits Elazig province, east of Ankara

A doctor at a hospital in China’s Hubei province, the center of the coronavirus outbreak, has died from the virus, according to China Global Television Network.

The United States and Canada, which had 57 citizens on board, had blamed an Iranian action for bringing down the aircraft.

The Boeing 737 belonging to Ukraine International Airlines crashed near the airport and burst into flames.

JNU students on social media blamed members of the ABVP, the youth wing of the Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh - the ideological parent of India’s ruling BJP.

Authorities are worried the fires could turn out to be worse than New Year’s Eve, when they burnt massive tracts of bushland and forced thousands of residents and summer holidaymakers to seek refuge on beaches.

Showing no signs of seeking to reduce tensions raised by the strike on Friday that he ordered, the U.S. president issued a stern threat to Iran on Twitter.

Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis was also killed in an air strike at Baghdad airport, according to the spokesman for Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Forces umbrella grouping of Iran-backed militias

According to Kazakhstan's Civil Aviation Committee, the aircraft, heading for the capital, Nur-Sultan, on a pre-dawn flight, lost altitude during takeoff and broke through a concrete fence before hitting a two-storey building.

The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) aims to fast-track citizenship for persecuted Hindus, Parsis, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and Christians who arrived in India before Dec. 31, 2014, from Muslim-majority Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan.

The districts that are facing a complete internet shutdown are Hapur, Moradabad, Saharanpur, Muzzafarnagar, Shamli, Lucknow, Prayagraj, Unnao, Agra, Sultanpur, Mau, Bagpat, Meerut, Bulandshahr, Azamgarh, Kanpur, Pilibhit.

Citing law and order concerns, officials said authorities imposed bans on Thursday in parts of the capital and two big states.