After the coronavirus pandemic shut down global sport, New Zealand Rugby and the players' association agreed to put on hold £12mi, or 50 per cent of the year's remaining forecast spend.

Politicians in the UK and Australia have doubled down on their refusal to reduce their pay packets since Ms Ardern said she and her top staff would slash their salaries by 20 per cent.

The future of the 2020 NRL season remains in limbo as league bosses struggle to reach a deal with players over salary reductions.

Players have reportedly planned to boycott training on Monday until a pay deal is finalised amid the coronavirus pandemic.

As LeBron James and the rest of the Los Angeles Lakers prepare for their Friday night game against the Los Angeles Clippers, James showed off a new tattoo that pays homage to Kobe Bryant.

The stars will appear in Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020, a one-hour long special honoring graduates and airing on multiple channels May 16.

Stoke City are facing a legal fight after failing to pay a mandated agent when they signed their former striker Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting.

The Sydney backbench MP and former tennis star charged taxpayers $91 so he could stay at his luxury retreat at Kangaroo Valley on the NSW South Coast. That was before $266 in car travel costs.

More than 1,000 veterans marched to Parliament in support of comrade Alexander Blackman, who is serving eight years for killing a Taliban captive in the heat of battle in Afghanistan in 2011.

Brian Reader, 81, was ordered to pay £6.5million but has only repaid £406,072. Three other members of the gang have also underpaid following the 2015 £14million London heist.

The company agreed on Thursday to pay at least $500 to each person whose privacy was breached by the blunder in eight states and Washington, D.C.

The Spanish giants have been clear front-runners for his signature ever since he revealed he was to finally leave Atletico Madrid this summer but no official approach had been made.

At 75, Angela Rippon is in remarkable shape: slim, quick, light on her feet. She maintains her fitness by playing tennis with singer Elaine Paige, doing Pilates and taking ballet classes

Fresh-faced Kylie, 22, looked almost unrecognizable as she bared her super smooth complexion and wore her shoulder length natural hair tied back in a casual bun.

Not just a home, the 19,250 square feet space is billed as a 'resort compound,' according to TMZ.

Ellias Preko, a Ghanaian national used his 'expertise and veneer of respectability' to flush dirty money out of Nigeria.The money was plundered by former governor James Ibori.

James Ibori (pictured), who previously lived in Middlesex, was jailed for 13 years for fraud and money laundering back in 2012 and is yet to pay any of the money back.

Odion Ighalo is being rewarded for his fine start to life at Manchester United with some huge bonuses, according to The Sun. The Nigeria striker has scored four goals since arriving in January.

John Fashanu, 57, who is now living in Abuja, Nigeria, spoke about his late brother Justin on today's GMB, admitting he didn't want his brother to 'embarass' the family by coming out as gay.

Tristan Thompson was quick to tweet that 'I hope this isn't true man!!' upon hearing the news that the 41-year-old was one of five people killed in the crash.

Kate Middleton, 38, has opted for green ensembles and shamrock earrings while visiting Ireland. Stylists have told FEMAIL that the choice to 'dress literally' helps the royal convey her message.

Viewers were moved to tears when Gogglebox dedicated Friday's episode to June, after her death aged 82. Many of the show's stars also paid tribute on social media.

Bindi Irwin shared a touching tribute to her mother-in-law, Shannan, ahead of Mother's Day.

The Mysterious Girl singer, 47, shared a post to his Instagram on what would have been his brother's 62nd birthday.

STEPHEN GLOVER: The lives of young people, pictured, are likely to be blighted for years to come following the Covid-19 outbreak and subsequent budget adjustments.

Swindon Borough Council has come under fire after it took to social media to reveal that its Highways Team had painted a 'thank you' message to NHS staff amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Harrison Ford paid tribute to his late Star Wars co-star Peter Mayhew and reflected on the legacy of Indiana Jones on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Thursday.

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

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.

UK foreign aid money is said to have funded 'salaries' to Palestinian terrorists jailed in Israel. Recipients reportedly include bombmaker Abdullah Barghouti whose attacks killed 67 people.

Classrooms in 800 Pakistani schools, paid for with British aid, have closed as they are not fit for use. An estimated 115,000 children are left taking classes outside or in overcrowded rooms.

Carey's salary figure is a guarded secret but it is thought to be several million pounds a year. The London -based company have put half of their 500 F1 staff on furlough this week, it can be revealed.

Ryan Babel scored twice as a rampant Holland claimed a comfortable 4-0 victory over Estonia in their Euro 2020 Group C qualifier on Monday.

The two teams took part in a minute's applause to honour the memory of the Rangers legend who passed away last month following a six-year battle with motor neurone disease.

RUTH SUNDERLAND COLUMN: If ministers let Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic crash into the ground, we will all be the poorer for it.

The ECB are soon to outline details of the financial support package they will offer counties who will hit problems because the start of the domestic season has been delayed due to coronavirus.

England's star cricketers have been nonplussed by reports that they will be expected to take pay cuts of up to £200,000 as the game repositions its finances because of the coronavirus crisis.

Professional Cricketers' Association remain resistant to pay cuts for their membership as counties seek to lessen the financial burdens pressed upon them by the coronavirus crisis.

Former Australia captain Mark Taylor and wicket-keeping great Adam Gilchrist believe pay cuts are inevitable for the country's cricketers as the sport gears up to deal with the financial crisis.

EXCLUSIVE BY MATT HUGHES: Sportsmail has learned that the ECB are insured for the value of all tickets sold up until April 1 if the Tests do not take place as planned.

MIKE KEEGAN - SPORTS AGENDA: It would appear that the England and Wales Cricket Board can do no wrong at the moment when it comes to dealing with the Press.

EXCLUSIVE BY MATT HUGHES: The ECB will become the first governing body or league in the country to lose domestic television income as a result of the coronavirus lockdown.

ECB are asking players to take 20 per cent pay cuts if the Hundred's original draft list is kept for 2021. The retention of the eight 15-man squads on 80 per cent of their agreed terms would save £1.536million.

Charlie Sheen is not too pleased with the IRS, who won't let him use a payment plan for his $5.7 million tax bill. The actor claims IRS commissioner John Koskinen is 'abusing his power.'

Gold Coast woman Haylee Baxter was told to pay $10,500 to NRA Enterprises at a Queensland Civil Administrative Tribunal (QCAT) appeal on Wednesday.

It's an act of desperation from the onetime front-runner who was thought of as the Republicans' best shot at the White House until Donald Trump came along and stole all his thunder.

The failed Republican presidential candidate spent the extraordinary sum between his campaign and his Right to Rise super PAC. Other candidates are spending big too - but not Trump.

From December 16 to 31, UPS shunters and HGV drivers at the site in Barton, Staffordshire, will walk out and throw deliveries into chaos.

Football is poised for an extraordinary week of wage cuts across the board as the game attempts to forge a way out of the coronavirus crisis at Friday's Premier League shareholders' meeting.

Cristiano Ronaldo is doing his bit to help Juventus cut costs in the coronavirus outbreak but due to the astronomical success of his business away from the pitch, he's unlikely to notice the financial hit.