DR ELLIE CANNON: Even in my position, it is hard not to be sucked in by the scare stories or to be frightened by the amateur statisticians tweeting online. Some of the claims I read make my blood boil.

DR ELLIE CANNON: The Mail on Sunday's GP discusses Covid-19 testing, the effectiveness of face masks, whether we need to wipe down our groceries and more in this week's column.

DR ELLIE CANNON reveals how the oximeter, pictured, a simple tool available easily on the high street, can help catch Covid-19 before it turns deadly.

Manal Aqrawe, had been living in Mosul, Iraq, when the terror group took over.   After moving to Brisbane she claims landing a healthcare job has been difficult.

An Australian student convicted of being a member of the Islamic State terror group has had her guilty verdict overturned on appeal.

Seven Russian mercenaries were killed in two separate attacks claimed by ISIS in Mozambique last month, including four who were ambushed, shot and then beheaded.

Donald Trump bragged on Twitter that the US knows 'exactly' who Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi is after ISIS unexpectedly named him as their new leader, leaving terror experts stumped.

Trump's remarks came at a campaign rally on Friday night at the BancorpSouth Arena in Tupelo, Mississippi, where he threw his support to the Republican in Tuesday's election for governor.

The new leader of the Islamic State group is 'a nobody' with little apparent reputation even amongst adherents of the terror group, an anonymous US official said Wednesday.

Turkey on Thursday announced it will deport an American IS fighter back to the US after he was stuck in a border buffer zone between Greece and Turkey for days.

The Australians are among 959 foreign IS fighters and families in Turkish custody in northern Syria.

Three kilograms of the volatile explosive triacetone triperoxide was found by a fisherman in the Leschenault Estuary 150km south of Perth in 2013.

He's famed for his cheeky persona and tongue-in-cheek lyrics. Yet Shaggy waded into deeper matters during an eye-opening chat with MailOnline, in which the star discussed the #MeToo era and ISIS.

The strike was carried out in Atmeh, located in Syria's Idlib province, which is around five miles from the Turkish border and fewer than 10 miles from Barisha, where al-Baghdadi was killed.

Suspected ISIS bride Lisa Smith has been charged with terror offences by police in Dublin relating to her time living in the so-called Islamic State.

The Hellfire R9X was reportedly aiming at an Al-Qaeda target travelling between Azaz and Afrin in northern Aleppo, Syria. A jihadist leader and two others were killed.

The alleged cell, lead by Idris Alibekov, had reportedly been plotting attacks on a school and a police station in Moscow over the New Year holidays.

Lisa Smith, 38, was charged with ISIS membership earlier this month in Dublin. She reportedly wears a black traditional abaya robe in her cell where she spends 20 hours a day.

Roberto Vincenzo Boscaino says the person responsible for Samuel Thompson's death north of Brisbane is his co-accused Ashley Dyball, a one-time anti-Islamic State fighter in Syria.

Hadi al Amiri joined Iraq's then-Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki as his Minister for Transport when he stood in the Oval Office in December 2011.

US general David Petraeus, who led the CIA from 2011 to 2012, said Friday's killing of Qassem Suleimani by Baghdad International Airport was also more important than ISIS's al-Baghdadi's death.

In a phone call with Iraqi counterpart Adil Abdul Mahdi, the PM tried to cool anger by stressing his commitment to 'Iraq's stability and sovereignty' after the Iranian commander was killed.

NATO announced today they plan to withdraw 'some personnel' from Iraq, where they are running a training mission, helping security forces prevent ISIS from becoming a fighting force.

Mohammad Javad Zarif (pictured) also accused Trump of aiding ISIS by killing general Qassem Soleimani, whose proxies fought against the terror group in Iraq.

British ISIS fighters are set to go on trial in Syria from next month as the Kurds have grown frustrated of the prolonged legal battle over the extremists, after the UK refused to repatriate them.

Dr Philip Cunliffe, Senior Lecturer of International Conflict at the University of Kent, claims that human rights 'can no longer claim to be innocent' and should be ripped from foreign policy considerations.

The young child is the daughter of Kirsty Rosse-Emile - a Melbourne woman who travelled with her husband Nabil Kadmiry to Syria in 2014. Kadmiry was an ISIS fighter before his capture.

A woman accused of recruiting an Islamic State fighter has faced a Melbourne court on terrorism charges.

Two U.S. soldiers were killed on a raid of an ISIS stronghold in Iraq and had their dead bodies hoisted out of a crevice after six hours, drawing criticism from former US special envoy Brett McGurk.

A list of 'religious directives' on tackling infectious diseases appeared in the latest issue of the terror group's newspaper al-Naba. It advises terrorists not to travel to affected areas.

The Islamic State has released a new newsletter from their al-Naba publication claiming the virus is God's response to non-believing nations.

The families of three men who were brutally murdered by a terror cell from the so-called Islamic State have said they are 'deeply concerned' about a ruling made by the UK's highest court.

Infamous cousins Talal and Bilal Alameddine (pictured) were over the past week both sentenced in NSW courts for crimes carried out behind bars at separate New South Wales prisons.

One of the attacks has been identified as Abdallah A.O., who stabbed two people during a bloody rampage in Romans-sur-Isere, south of Lyon. France is under coronavirus lockdown.

Identified only as Taha al-J., the 37-year-old Iraqi man is accused of genocide, murder, crimes against humanity, war crimes and human trafficking in case heard before Frankfurt judges.

The horrifying attack took place in the northern suburb of Colombes shortly after 5.30pm on Monday and left one of the officers in intensive care.

For a weekday entrance fee of $15, visitors in Mexico City of all ages take part in a 60-minute game where they take on role of infamous drug trafficker Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán.

The shocking event allegedly occurred in 2010, but has only now been made public in newly released court documents.

Based on prices for drugs quoted by various witnesses, Guzman's 25-year reign atop the Sinaloa cartel netted sales of some $11.8 billion in cocaine, $846 million in marijuana and $11 million in heroin.

Jeffrey Epstein obtained a passport from Austria in the 1980s 'for personal protection in the event of travel to dangerous areas, only to be presented to potential kidnappers, hijackers and terrorists'

El Chapo is locked up for life but his legend remains alive after three men in New York City were arrested with the drug lord's likeness branded on heroin packages worth $5million.

While Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán rots in a hellish supermax prison in Colorado, his glamorous wife Emma Aispuro Coronel is vacationing in Italy.

El Chapo's deadly Mexican drug cartel is flooding Melbourne streets with meth, aiming to cash in massive profits to be made in Australia. 

As Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán spends the rest of his life in the most secure prison in the United States, he has a wish: giving all of his massive wealth to the indigenous people of Mexico.

The 62-year-old drugs kingpin, who co-founded the infamous Sinaloa Cartel, is serving a life sentence at the ADX Florence super maximum security penitentiary in Colorado,

Claudia Ochoa Felix, 35, was found dead in a house in Isla Musala in the city of Culiacan, north-west Mexico. The model had consistently denied involvement with drug gangs in the country.

The accusations were made at the opening of President Hernandez's brothers' trial on Wednesday afternoon by US prosecutor Jason Richman.

El Chapo's wife, Emma Coronel Aispuro (second from right), could reportedly become a reality TV star on VH1's Cartel Crew after she met with Griselda Blanco's son, Michael (right) in Miami.

The Mexican government will be holding an auction sale this week on six homes that were confiscated from El Chapo Guzmán following his capture and extradition to the United States.

Luis Arellano-Romero, who was part of El Chapo's Sinaloa Cartel, was extradited to the United States last Friday and appeared before an El Paso, Texas, judge, for the murder of a drug dealer.