KINI ROUNDUP | Key headlines you may have missed yesterday, in brief.

1. MCA has finally decided to remain in BN, stating that it needed to help maintain a multiracial opposition.

2. The death toll from the Christchurch shootings rose to 50 after New Zealand police found another body in the Al Noor mosque.

3. Lawyer Hisyam Teh Poh Teik questioned attorney-general Tommy Thomas' double standard in ordering the charge against the Indonesian suspect in Kim Jong-nam's murder to be dropped, while refusing to do the same for her alleged Vietnamese accomplice.

4. Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad reiterated the benefit of engineering knowledge when developing automobiles amid scepticism over the third national car project.

5. Youth and Sports Minister Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman said he disagreed with the police investigation into the Women's March, and that the prime minister was looking into the matter.

6. PKR president Anwar Ibrahim cited Dr S Streram's humanitarian work abroad with Doctors Without Borders as the deciding factor in his candidacy for the Rantau by-election.

7. A Malaysian was among two people killed in an earthquake-triggered landslide in Lombok, Indonesia, which also injured 44 people.

8. Johor ruler Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar denied being involved in the toxic chemical dump in Pasir Gudang. Police, meanwhile, said they have several leads in their probe into the incident, which has seen more than 200 people needing hospital treatment.