The Everton forward was put in isolation for three days after contracting the contagious viral infection and was holed up in a hotel in Porto Alegre while he recovered.

While Tom Gleeson's Gold Logie win was the talk of the Logie Awards on Sunday, there was even more drama brewing behind the scenes.

INTERVIEW BY MIKE KEEGAN: David Willey was not surprised when the phone rang. On the other end of the line, Ed Smith, national selector, delivered the grim yet inevitable news.

EXCLUSIVE BY KISHAN VAGHELA: Pat Brown maybe hasn't been in professional cricket long enough to look retrospectively at what he has already achieved with ball in hand.

President Trump endorsed the Republican opponent of 'squad' member, Rep. Ilhan Omar, in a Monday morning tweet.

Obama tweeted Friday: 'What truly makes our country great is its diversity. I've seen that beauty in so many ways over the years.'

The 25-year-old defender was last summoned for international duty in 2017 but is yet to be handed his first cap. Laporte had been regularly capped for France's international youth sides.

Ilkay Gundogan has pulled out of the Germany squad to face Northern Ireland in Belfast on Monday night through illness. The Manchester City midfielder is suffering from a cold.

Karim Benzema has been a consistent goalscorer in his professional career and has represented France over 80 times, but the former Lyon marksman hasn't played for Les Bleus since 2015.

Manchester United captain Ashley Young thinks World Cup winners France have blundered by ignoring Anthony Martial whose form has made some of United's attacking football 'unbelievable'.

Calls are growing for Karim Benzema to earn a recall for France - four years after earning the last of his 81 caps. He's been exiled since his involvement in blackmail of Mathieu Valbuena.

Brazil left the injured Neymar out of their squad for the November friendlies against Argentina and South Korea on Friday, but Douglas Luiz and Rodrygo were called up.

She got dumped from Kylie Jenner's circle of friends last year after getting entangled with Khloe Kardashian's ex Tristan Thompson. But now Jordyn Woods looks like the leader of the pack.

Khloe Kardashian is looking for one lucky Australian to star in her clothing brand Good American's latest campaign in Los Angeles - and anyone can enter.

Donald Trump turned a mega-church revival meeting into a campaign rally on Friday, riffing at a Miami gathering of politicall friendly evangelicals on meandering topics including claims of Democratic Party anti-Semitism and the U.S. airstrike that killed a hated Iranian general.

Noel 'El Flaco' Salgueiro - founder of the ruthless Gente Nueva hit squad - was taken into the custody of the FBI on Thursday and transferred to a jail in El Paso, Texas, on a narcotics charge.

The Dutch captain played 90 minutes against Northern Ireland on Saturday as Holland qualified for Euro 2020, but has withdrawn from their final game due to 'personal circumstances.'

Lockdown has offered extended periods of reflection for sports people and Joe Denly has had a lot to ponder. Not least how spectacularly things have transformed for him in the last decade.

Leicester attacker Harvey Barnes is emerging as a late contender to gatecrash England's Euro 2020 plans. Barnes has impressed during the Foxes' excellent season.

Former England captain David Beckham took to Instagram to congratulate the club's players and staff and share his excitement for the team's future after their MLS debut against Los Angeles FC.

Chelsea midfielder Mateo Kovacic has been forced to withdraw from the Croatia squad due to an Achilles injury. The 25-year-old has suffered an inflamed Achilles tendon in his right leg.

EXCLUSIVE BY SAMI MOKBEL: Arsenal will aim to conclude early transfer business this summer amid concerns they could be priced out of the market during Euro 2020.

Leicester attacker Harvey Barnes is emerging as a late contender to gatecrash England's Euro 2020 plans. Barnes has impressed during the Foxes' excellent season.

Leicester boss Brendan Rodgers has backed winger Harvey Barnes to make a late charge into England's Euro 2020 squad.

EXCLUSIVE: Millwall furloughed a number of their non-playing staff last week - but have now informed their footballing personnel of their intention to place them on the scheme.

Sportsmail reported last week that they would become the first Championship club to place their players on the government scheme designed to mitigate the impact of coronavirus.

EXCLUSIVE BY DANIEL MATTHEWS AND ADRIAN KAJUMBA: A percentage of Reading's U23 squad will be affected, understood to be those less likely to be involved with the first team.

Fury is on top of the world after his seventh round victory over heavyweight rival Wilder on Saturday in Las Vegas, and United are looking to him to provide insight into how to battle back from the brink.

British actress Olivia Colman was seen in a sneak peek at her beauty routine before she hit the red carpet at the Golden Globes last night.

New biography AOC: The Fearless Rise and Powerful Resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez by Lynda Lopez, gives an inside look of AOC's rise to Congress, out June 2.

Timothy Barry, 31, flew into a fit of rage and attacked Sarah Seddon, 31, at their home in Cuxham, Oxfordshire after she said she wanted to end their relationship on January 14 last year.

Riot police and the bomb squad stormed a home on Wangee Road in Lakemba, in south west Sydney, on  Thursday afternoon.

The mother-of-two was seen making a trip to a bank near her $3m Woodland Hills, California home. When she emerged, Blac Chyna was crying and arguing with someone over the phone.

The World Cup is just 37 days away and excitement is building. Each week our man in Brazil, Joe Callaghan, brings us the latest news and views from South America.

Joe Allen believes Wales now have a better squad than the group that reached the semi-finals of Euro 2016. Wales have qualified for their second consecutive European Championships.

Wolves are keeping in regular contact with their stars to offer safety advice - one of which is to stay away from supermarkets when shopping for food. Striker Pedro Neto has revealed the measures.

Players will be training individually in order to comply with social distancing measures with Spain gradually lifting some of their coronavirus lockdown restrictions.

Medical experts in Spain have urged La Liga clubs to put squads into quarantine in team hotels away from their families if they want to be able to successfully finish the season.

Andy Murray will represent Great Britain for the first time since 2016 after being called up to the Davis Cup squad. The call up comes a day after Murray's memorable European Open triumph.

Kyle Edmund has completed Great Britain's squad for the new-format Davis Cup in Madrid next month. Captain Leon Smith gave Edmund the nod over Cam Norrie.

Carlos Tevez has revealed he was ridiculed at Manchester United for his car... before team-mate Wayne Rooney stepped in, giving the Argentinian his Lamborghini to help him settle.

Former Manchester United defender Gary Neville has recalled the time he thought Wayne Rooney's time at the club was over, seven years before he actually left.

EXCLUSIVE BY SAMI MOKBEL AND ADRIAN KAJUMBA: Sportsmail can disclose academy players have been put on the Government's Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.

EXCLUSIVE BY SAMI MOKBEL: AFC Wimbledon are set to become the next EFL club to furlough their footballing staff, Sportsmail understands.

MARTIN KEOWN discusses Alexis Sanchez, David Luiz, prospects for Sunday's north London derby and the latest England squad in his latest Q&A with the fans.

Daniel James has been identified as Manchester United's standout player this season by the club's former defender Rio Ferdinand.

Sheffield United host Manchester United on Sunday in what represents the biggest financial mismatch in the Premier League this season. Here, Sportsmail compares the princes with the paupers.

Without a largely-forgotten friendly in front of 21,000 people at Wembley 30 years ago this weekend, there would have been no Italia '90 in the sense of Paul Gascoigne and England changing history.

Robin van Persie and Holland may have had to settle for finishing third in the World Cup, but their army of supporters don't seem to be fretting too much about what could have been.

Scotland captain Andrew Robertson has revealed that Steve Clarke's squad held their own crisis summit in the wake of last Friday's dismal home Euro 2020 defeat to Russia.