A major scare over Vladimir Putin's health emerged today as Russia's top coronavirus doctor was stuck down with Covid-19 - one week after meeting and shaking hands with the president.

Concerns circulate whether crew aboard the International Space Station could have been infected with coronavirus prior to a launch, after a senior Russian official present tested positive.

Large demonstrations occurred across the country, from New York to North Carolina, with protesters urging an end to stay-at-home orders put in place amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Uzbekistan's most decorated Olympian Artur Taymazov has become the 60th athlete and eight gold medallist to be disqualified from London 2012 following analysis of doping samples.

Brisbane Broncos player James Segeyaro's career hangs in the balance after he returned a positive drug test.

A courtroom battle billed as sport's trial of the century is set to start in Paris on Monday. Lamine Diack and six others will stand trial accused of conspiring to cover up positive drugs tests

Barack was joined by his wife Michelle on Tuesday at their annual Obama Foundation summit in Chicago, where the former first lady also said: 'I can't make people not afraid of black people.'

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's wife Sophie Grégoire Trudeau has tested positive for coronavirus, a day after she reported feeling mild flu-like symptoms including a low fever.

US national security adviser John Bolton has said that North Korea's latest missile tests did not violate pledges made by the state to Donald Trump. Short-range missiles were launched on Tuesday.

President Trump defended North Korea recent missile tests, arguing the short range missiles don't violate the Singapore agreement and claimed Kim Jong-Un would not would not want to 'disappoint' him.

Kim Jong-un personally oversaw the test of a 'new-type tactical guided weapon' on Tuesday, North Korean state media said, which was meant as 'a warning' to the US and South Korea.

Using a space-based radar, scientists found that the North Korean tests at Mount Mantap had a yield of 245 to 271 kilotonnes and had managed to shift the mountain by a few metres.

The North Korean man was rushed to hospital after being shot by a Chinese border guard while trying to defect on April 20 where he tested positive for coronavirus, a source has said.

The life-long Sharks fan had just hours before insisted he would attend his team's first NRL game of the season against the South Sydney Rabbitohs.

Medical staff wearing masks were seen taking players' temperatures as they arrived at training grounds, with others noting down their results on clipboards ahead of their return to action.

Two officers were treated for skin irritation in Cleveland's downtown Public Square on Thursday during protests surrounding the Republican National Convention, police said.

She recently tested negative for the disease known as COVID-19 after her friend Lucian Grainge tested positive.

Demonstrations calling for 'no war with Iran' took place in 370 communities across the country on Thursday with protesters stepping out in the likes of Ohio, Nevada, Washington DC and New York.

A man who recently travelled to Iran has become the fifth person in NSW to be diagnosed with coronavirus.

A Macquarie University lecturer has tested positive for coronavirus after returning from Iran. The staff member became ill after returning from the western Asian country but had not been on campus.

Dr Paul Hunter, a medicine lecturer at the University of East Anglia, said it was 'valid' for people to be tested more than once and that tests are not perfect so may have to be repeated.

DR ELLIE CANNON: The Mail on Sunday's GP discusses B&Q reopening, pictured, how to obtain a free test, whether it's safe to hug grandchildren and more in this week's column.

MARTIN SAMUEL IN JOHANNESBURG: At 3.49pm local time, Ben Stokes clobbered an off-side ball from Dwaine Pretorius through midwicket for four

President Trump continued to send mixed messages on the country's COVID-19 testing capabilities, saying a benchmark of five million tests per day was 'unnecessary,' but that the country would hit it.

Sam Skinner has been ruled out of Scotland's World Cup plans following a recent injury picked up on international duty. The Exeter Chiefs second row had scans after limping off with a hamstring issue.

Jeremy Corbyn and senior medical leaders tore into Boris Johnson's response as a senior ministers said they were now doing 8,000 tests a day and production would double within the next fortnight.

Jeremy Corbyn's brother, Piers, has spearheaded an anti-lockdown protest where he claimed drug companies were 'suppressing information' on a cure for coronavirus 'because they want to impose a vaccine.'

Nearly 70 percent of Americans under 25 have never been tested for HIV and most of them do not get screened because they think they are 'unlikely to be exposed,' according to CDC data released today.

A HIV vaccine is in sight after a team of scientists from the likes of Harvard and MIT tested a new drug that stopped two thirds of monkeys getting infected and boosted immune system of 400 adults.

Researchers at the State University of New York, Binghamton, made the batteries using 'exoelectrogens' - bacteria that can transfer electrons outside of their cells.

Rev. Timothy Cole of Christ Church Georgetown in Washington, D.C., confirmed to his congregation he was the first person infected with the coronavirus in the nation's capital.

England's cricket Tests against the West Indies this summer could be switched to the Caribbean if rescheduling in this country proves impossible due to the coronavirus crisis.

Roche Diagnostics has finally created a kit that is accurate enough to be used at scale - and the firm says it has enough stock to provide hundreds of thousands to the NHS every week.

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: The Mail on Sunday's GP discusses B&Q reopening, pictured, how to obtain a free test, whether it's safe to hug grandchildren and more in this week's column.

We still don't know for sure when we will start playing again but I'm going to assume that it will be July 1. That's my target date, and that means I am aiming to be in the best shape possible to bowl.

EXCLUSIVE: England hope to play six Tests this summer at only two venues, in a new proposed schedule for the season that could exclude all county and women's cricket. 

Mark Wood, the England fast bowler who has produced the best form of his career over the last year or so, says the players have 'asked good questions' and have been given 'good answers'.

Diego Simeone and his players had medical checks at the club's training ground this week and the 22-year-old full-back has reportedly tested positive for the novel coronavirus.

Manchester City's partnership with the NHS is facilitating 1,000 coronavirus tests a day at the Etihad Stadium. The Premier League side have been praised for opening their doors to the NHS.

Ms Dorries has sent a message to the Tory MP WhatsApp group this morning asking them to come forward if they were near her in Parliament because it is 'hard to remember everyone'.

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: All a conspiracy in the tale of a farmer's revenge, or did the Furys make a pig's ear of their defence against one of the most contentious cases in the history of British sport?

James Bond star Daniel Craig performed a top secret mission right under the noses of the world's media at this week's royal global premier of the latest 007 movie, Skyfall, which goes on general release today.

It’s no slouch. On Germany’s unrestricted motorways, it’ll cruise happily and legally top-down in the ‘slow’ lane at 100 mph.

It's not every day I get a police escort down The Mall from Buckingham Palace. But I did - well, sort of - in this head-turning electric car from BMW.

The new model will be 17 per cent more economical than its predecessor. The Fabia is expected to go on sale in the UK early next year and will cost between £10, 000 and £16, 000.

RAY MASSEY tests the new Land Rover Discovery Sport on the snowy roads of Iceland. With an impressive seven seats avilable and fantastic flexibilty this car is perfect for families.

Matches will continue behind closed doors with a maximum of 322 people in and around stadiums for top-flight Bundesliga matches and 270 for second-tier games.

President Donald Trump and the entire White House staff will be tested daily for the coronavirus after a Navy valet who worked in the West Wing tested positive for the disease. 

Vice President Mike Pence's spokesperson Katie Miller, who also serves as a spokesperson for the White House Coronavirus Task Force, tested positive for the coronavirus..