Naturally, the whole sporting shindig began with a song, a mournful dirge to my ear. The BBC, we have long realised, has given up comprehensive TV coverage of games.

Naomi Campbell, Winnie Harlow and Alessandra Ambrosio took to the runway at the glittering Tommy Hilfiger presentation during London Fashion Week on Sunday.

The pair pipped Tiger Woods, Rafael Nadal, Marc Marquez and Eliud Kipchoge for the honour. Messi won his sixth Ballon d'Or last year as Barcelona won La Liga for the 26th time.

A host of sporting greats were honoured for their achievements at the annual Laureus World Sports Awards, held in Berlin on Monday night, and Sportsmail's photographer Andy Hooper was allowed exclusive behind the scenes access to capture the glitzy ceremony in all of its glory.

With the first weekend of elite sport suspended as a consequence of the coronavirus pandemic upon us, it is not just the regular-going fans who are seeking alternative ways to spend their weekend.

The new fall-themed release will be available on Spam.com and Walmart.com starting on September 23. Hormel previously joked about releasing the product in 2017.

Beto O'Rourke reported a death threat against him to the FBI and his campaign is selling t-shirts with his breakout debate line vowing to take AR-15s.

Frantic clientele at a Bank of America branch in the heart in midtown requested to retrieve tens of thousands of dollars to stockpile, which accounted for the shortage  according to The New York Times.

Supermarkets in the United States are reporting their first employee deaths related to COVID-19. At least four employees at major chains like Walmart have died.

PETER HITCHENS: This newspaper has now obtained the team's original, uncensored interim report which differs sharply from all later versions, including the March document.

Researchers from The Economist Intelligence Unit looked at the prices of 160 items in 133 cities around the globe including the cost of food, clothing, transport and utility bills.

Patrick Ofori-Sampong, 50, said he was gay to take over his alleged partner's property in London then tried to take possession of a man's home while claiming to be his adopted son.

Security minister Ben Wallace confirmed there was an ongoing purge to rid the system of would-be extremists who 'pose a risk to London and its transport network'.

The District Line driver had been qualified for 18 weeks but only drove for 11 of them, due to sickness, retraining and a compulsory removal from duty, London Underground said.

The offensive message was written on a whiteboard at Blackhorse Road tube station in North London on Saturday. Baker Michael Hawkes spotted it and shared it on Twitter.

Franklin Azolukwam, 36, from north London, lost his job with bookmaker Betfred when he was seized by immigration officials last July and told the Home Office had no record record of him

Damian Fichardo, 42, of Bexley, south east London, followed the victim into a women's toilet, pinned her against the washbasins and told her he wanted to ‘lick her’ intimately, a court heard.

TfL has implemented the stringent cleaning measures across the Underground and bus network in the Capital in a bid to cope with the increasing threat posed by coronavirus.

The £18 billion Crossrail project, which is already three years behind schedule, has been delayed again to help stop the spread of coronavirus, according to Transport for London.

Transport for London will place 7,000 staff on furlough from Monday to save an estimated £15.8million every four weeks, as a result of a huge reduction in passenger numbers.

If Team Clinton don’t do something quickly, the same blind arrogance that brought down Cameron’s leadership could end up handing Trump the White House.

Clinton supporters were reduced to tears as their candidate's doom became inevitable on Election Night, while Trump's party became more and more raucous as he swept to victory.

Princess Anne, 69, was said to be closer to her father, but a royal expert has said that since the Queen's mother passed away in 2002 their relationship has grown.

Twitter users were left in uproar after Oonagh Ryder, from London, shared a photograph of the 'report shoplifting sign' which had been placed by the sanitary products in Tesco.

DR MAX PEMBERTON: Enough already! We all need to calm down NOW! Even if the coronavirus, Covid-19, does become an epidemic in Britain, giving in to panic is never the sensible option.

Racing driver Josh Webster, 26, has become a Tesco delivery driver to help self-isolating Brits through lockdown. The Porsche Carrera Cup winner is now dropping off groceries in Suffolk.

Pictures show police officers standing outside a bar in Wallasey, Merseyside, after a man, 20, was stabbed multiple times. A 22-year-old suspect has been arrested.

The presenter, 42, cut a sporty figure in a red Adidas zip-up top and khaki lightweight trousers as she headed to Global Studios in London to present her daily radio show on Tuesday.

The report shows that if a two-metre social distancing rule is implemented, tens of thousands of commuters will be unable to board London's Tubes at peak times.

The model and actress remains behind closed doors at her London home as the UK abides to strict social distancing measures in the fight against coronavirus COVID-19.

Janet,72, was discussing the Notre-Dame fire with colleagues on Loose Women today, and despite saying how sad she was about the fire, she also argued that the money should go elsewhere.

The White House said 'we remember with grateful hearts the tolling of Notre Dame’s bells' in 2001 in 'recognition of the tragic September 11th attacks on American soil. Those bells will sound again.'

Newlyweds Jonathan Ball, 27, and Kirsty-Louise Storey, 21, tied the knot on Saturday in a hotel which was also being used by the gold medal winner (centre) for a photo-shoot.

Laura Trott does not need long to think when asked to name a trio of contenders for Sports Personality of the Year. Her vote would go to Bradley Wiggins.

MARTHA KELNER: After winning Wimbledon, Olympic gold and becoming world No 1, Murray could make history again by becoming the first person to win the SPOTY trophy three times.

The Scot won his second Wimbledon title, took gold at the Olympic Games in Rio in August and achieved world No 1 status for the first time while also becoming a father.

Real Madrid and Portugal star Cristiano Ronaldo has had his sensational 2016 recognised once again after being nominated for Laureus World Sportsman of the Year.

The French national of Arab descent was stopped by customs officials when he arrived at Melbourne's Tullamarine Airport two days after Islamic State terrorists targeted Paris, killing 130 people.

Abdelhamid Abaaoud, 28, is believed to have visited London and could have made his way into the UK via Kent using a fake passport, weeks before carrying out the horrific attacks in Paris.

Europe’s security services feared a terrorist attack since the arrest of Paris failed suicide bomber Salah Abdeslam in the city four days ago as his colleagues feared the net was closing on them.

The Paris region has seen a 6.4 per cent decline in tourists in the first half of 2016, officials said on Tuesday. They blamed terror attacks as well as strikes and floods for the slump.

As the singer plans to make her comeback into the limelight once again, she courted attention with her rollers when she left her Leeds hotel on Saturday.

Emergency services were scrambled to the David Lloyd club in Tongue Lane, Leeds at 9.45am today. They found the three-year-old boy in the swimming pool but he later died in hospital.

The first Saturday in April could have been one of the biggest days in racing in recent memory, but this year's Grand National will instead be held virtually. Here, Sportsmail's Sam Turner provides his tips...

Shahab Dehghani, 24, an Iranian economics student at Northeastern University, was denied entry to the US and ordered to immediately fly back to his native country.

A rapist who dodged deportation after a mutiny by plane passengers will next month launch another bid to avoid being booted out of Britain. Yaqub Ahmed was jailed for a total of nine years.

The High Court has ruled in a majority 4-3 verdict that Aboriginal people can't be deported from Australia because they are exempt from immigration laws under the constitution.

The review into the Government's policy towards migrants has seen the claim edited out of the final draft. It was commissioned in 2018 after the Windrush scandal.

The system crashed on Friday about 12pm, causing hours of delays for travellers venturing in and out of the holiday hotspot.

The BBC faces another vetting row after the woman who asked the panel about immigration was named online as Sherri Peach, allegedly a supporter of Tommy Robinson and Britain First.