Japanese carmaker, Toyota Motor Corp, on Monday said it was preparing to shutdown all of its plants in Japan as from March 1 due to a cyber attack on one of its domestic suppliers, according to local media reports.

Brazilian football great Pele has been discharged from hospital following a urinary tract infection (UTI).

In response to the decision by multiple countries to close their airspace to Russian aircraft, Russian aviation authority, Rosaviatsiya, on Monday announced that it was closing Russian airspace to 35 countries.

China has maintained its position as the world’s largest manufacturing hub for 12 straight years.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed an official appeal for the European Union (EU), asking for the accession of Ukraine via a new special procedure, the presidential spokesman Sergii Nykyforov said.

The first talks aimed at stopping the fighting between Ukraine and Russia ended Monday with no agreement. 

A Chinese envoy on Tuesday warned against the politicisation of humanitarian assistance to Ukraine.

English Premier League clubside Chelsea, owned by Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, have made a 24-word statement on Russian invasion of Ukraine, but it was without mentioning Russia at all.