Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury have a '50-50' chance of their much-anticipated world heavyweight unification fight taking place this year, according to Barry Hearn - chairman of Matchroom. 

With the coronavirus crisis throwing both Fury and Joshua's next title defences into doubt, discussions over a mega-money showdown in December are now being held according to ESPN.

The self-styled Gypsy King had vowed to have three more fights after wrenching away the WBC title from Deontay Wilder back in February after being urged by his family to hang up the gloves.

Whyte, who lost to Joshua in 2015 having previously beaten him at amateur level, has revealed he thinks the prospect on the table of the two Brits colliding again was a publicity ploy by Joshua.

Fury and Joshua are on course for an all-British heavyweight dust-up, with the pair holding all five of the division's reputable belts but the 'Gypsy King' says he's 100% confident of winning that fight.

The Bulgarian fighter claimed Joshua was afraid of him, promising to rip his world titles away from him and derail his hopes of an undisputed fight against Tyson Fury.

Joshua's first defence after regaining the IBF, WBA and WBO belts was scheduled to take place at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in June but it was scuppered by the coronavirus pandemic.

The pet is said to have waited day and night in a residential complex where it and its owner used to live in China. It is said that its owner went back to South Korea without saying good-bye to it.

Perth-based Linear Clinical Research will trial a 'ground-breaking' potential vaccine being developed to help the body produce antibodies to fight the coronavirus.

The Morrison government - and the US administration - have called for the markets to be closed permanently to protect public health. But China is unlikely to listen.

This is the emotional moment a mother breaks down in tears when she hugs her biological son for the first time in nearly three decades after he was swapped by accident at birth.

Ambassador Cheng Jingye said on Monday that Australia's push for an inquiry into the origins of the virus could result in Chinese citizens rejecting Australian products.

President Donald Trump said Monday from the White House: 'Germany's looking at things, and we're looking at things, and we're talking about a lot more money than Germany's talking about'.

'Numerous people are wondering how the US system can tolerate such a person as a president,' Chinese state-run tabloid Global Times accused in an opinion piece.

Major retailers such as Amazon and Walgreens appeared to be experiencing shortages of the medication.

China's ambassador to Australia has bizarrely denied that 'wet markets' even exist in the Communist nation as the country continues to deny that the outbreak began in Wuhan.

Dr Zhang Jixian, 54, has been hailed by China as the first person to report the virus to local officials. She found out that the disease was contagious in December after treating a family of three.

Shi Zhengli, a lead researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, said the pathogen in the report was different from the strain of coronavirus that has triggered the pandemic.

China suggested Tuesday that Donald Trump is 'blackmailing' them by blaming Beijing for the coronavirus pandemic and demanding it pay compensations to the U.S.

The billionaire invited Victorian China Consul-General Zhou Long -  who did not take questions but credited the 'transparent' manner with which China had dealt with the COVID-19 outbreak.

China expert Professor James Laurenceson predicts cashed-up Chinese investors will continue having an interest in Australian property - despite diplomatic tensions over coronavirus.

A video shows the Mount Tai, one of China's five greatest mountains, being jam-packed with visitors this morning. Similar sights can be spotted in other famous tourist attractions in China today.

The Suparna privately chartered flight touched down at Sydney Airport on April 8 with 70 tonnes of personal protective equipment from Wuhan, the reported epicentre of the COVID-19 outbreak.

Hu Xijin, the outspoken head of Communist propaganda outlet the Global Times, has launched an astonishing attack on Trump, accusing the US president of 'publicly lying about China'.

The Bad Guy singer, 18, looked captivating while clad in an almost Handmaid's Tale looking hat and plaid Burberry coat in the portrait, which was shot by fashion photographer Nick Knight.

In the animation posted online by China's official Xinhua news agency, a warrior Lego figure wearing a face mask warns a Statue of Liberty figure of the dangers of the virus.

An influential academic who writes for a Chinese Communist Party newspaper has accused Australia of 'stabbing China in the back' over its calls for an international coronavirus inquiry.

What do mining magnate Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest and media mogul Kerry Stokes have in common? Both stand boost fortunes thanks to China, and both have done Beijing's bidding on COVID-19.

A senior former MI6 official says that UK Ministers were told 'not to believe Beijing's claims' from the beginning and to pour cold water on all information coming from Chinese officials on the virus.

Mining magnate Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest and media mogul Kerry Stokes drew widespread outrage for calling on Prime Minister Scott Morrison to dump an inquiry into the origin of coronavirus.

At least 3,506,729 people have been sickened by the virus since it emerged in China late last year, according to Johns Hopkins University figures.

China's 'bullying' responses to Australia's calls for an international coronavirus inquiry were slammed as 'outrageous' as experts rethink the diplomatic relationship.

The feared Xian H-20, which doubles China's strike range and completes its nuclear triad, puts Australia, Japan and Korea all within range and could be rolled out this year amid escalating global tensions.

Contributors on the Channel 4 show mocked Boris Johnson's description of COVID-19 as 'an unexpected mugger', with several pointing out it was 'no surprise'.

The index of Britain's biggest firms dropped by nine points to 5,763, with further losses in the eurozone markets which were 3.5 per cent lower at close today.

A tweet posted by Mark Buttigieg flashed on screen during Q and A on Monday night, where Mr Buttigieg claimed Australia's relationship with the US is biased.

Dr Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, panned the conspiracy theory that the coronavirus was accidentally leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology on Monday.

President Donald Trump suggested that the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the globe is the result of a 'horrible mistake' made by China, during a Fox News virtual town hall on Sunday.

Multiple activists, journalists and ordinary internet users have already vanished after criticising Beijing's approach to the crisis as the country tries to control the COVID-19 narrative.

Mahan Air, a private company linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), is accused of lying about these flights after Tehran barred all flights to China on January 31.

Preparations for the opening are underway as the theme park in China is set to welcome visitors again in mid-to-late May, a source revealed to the Chinese media on Monday.

With a hardhat, a harness and a rope, these so-called 'spider-man cleaners' need to collect garbage left by visitors on dangerous cliff faces in Zhangjiajie, south-western China.

Police in north-western China's Shaanxi province rescued the paralysed mother, known by her surname Wang, on Tuesday after the woman's daughter-in-law reported her missing.

London markets opened flat today as Asian shares continued to climb after China's central bank fixed the yuan in a bid to ease US trade-war tensions.

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: David Beckham likes to think he is a man of the people. However, the Communist state of China takes a rather different view of his body art.

President Trump said he believed the American coronavirus death toll was accurate - but not China's - amid reports that he planned to start sowing doubt about the U.S. totals.

Neville Power, the chairman of the government's COVID-19 recovery taskforce, has suggested resuming travel ties with China. He used to run iron ore exporter Fortescue Metals.

The debate over Taiwan's place within the World Health Organisation has escalated with New Zealand's foreign minister Winston Peters taking aim at the Chinese ambassador.

Touching images showed the little girl taking lessons online with her laptop and naked light bulbs in the confined space under the market stall in the outskirt of Yichang city, Hubei province.

A video filmed Wednesday showed two rows of students running around the field track during 'weight-loss classes' at the Shuguang Bilingual School in Huai'an, Jiangsu province of eastern China.