After UEFA convened on Thursday to provide clarity to its 55 member nations about the 2019-20 season, leagues now have a clearer idea about how to proceed with each creating their own plans.

UEFA are facing up to the prospect of another huge Champions League headache after the Ligue 1 season was cancelled and all sporting events were banned in France until at least September.

PSG chairman Nasser Al-Khelaifi said in a statement that while they respect the actions of the French government, they fully intend to feature in Europe's premier club competition.

UEFA medical chief Professor Tim Meyer has said it is 'definitely possible' to plan for the suspended 2019-20 season to restart, a day after his counterpart warned against resuming before September.

EXCLUSIVE BY MATT HUGHES: Manchester United players are taking legal advice about the salaries they can demand next season if the current campaign is scrapped.

France's Ligue 1 was cancelled earlier this week with Rennes officially being granted third place, meaning they will go into the qualifying round of next season's Champions League.

Erling Haaland's sensational 2019-20 season has convinced a former RB Salzburg coach that he can become an even better version o Swedish great Zlatan Ibrahimovic. 

Taking charge of football's heavyweights heaps pressure on a referee, but Mark Clattenburg looks back fondly on his encounters with legends of the game in the Premier League and abroad.

The now-Rangers manager is an all-time Anfield great but left Liverpool at the end of the 2014-15 season, just months before the popular manager took the hotseat.

Lindsay Lohan has shot down claims she was trying to flirt with Liam Hemsworth, after leaving several 'thirsty' comments on his Instagram recently.

Pete Buttigieg said Sunday that terrorist Qasem Soleimani deserved death, but insisted Donald Trump does not deserve the credit for taking out the Iranian leader.

Mark Esper would not explicitly confirm Tuesday if he would resign as Defense Department secretary if Donald Trump instructed him to carry out war crimes.

Joe Biden proclaimed on the Iowa debate stage that he's taken the most heat from President Trump and the Republicans of the 2020 hopefuls - and his poll numbers are only going up.

Hannah Vaughan Jones, 38, from London, appeared on Lorraine today, and said that once she changed her mindset and started to believe she would have a family, it felt like a weight had lifted.

Dustin Hice (left), 39, filed suit against Don Lemon (right), 53, last August alleging that the CNN star assaulted him at a Hamptons bar. Lemon denies the allegations.

Jill Biden said she doesn't consider Lindsey Graham her friend anymore after he's said 'so many negative things' about husband Joe Biden and her step son Hunter during the impeachment trial.

Tom Perez said Sunday that he is 'absolutely not' considering resigning from his post as DNC chairman among criticism over the chaos surrounding the Iowa caucuses.

The republican political commentator was hit with a barrage of criticism for the 'disgusting' tweet which attracted more than 12,000 comments, 43,000 likes and was shared nearly 5,000 times.

Bernie Sanders spokeswoman Briahna Joy Gray says she misspoke when she told CNN rival Michael Bloomberg had experienced a heart attack.

Bernie Sanders said he was surprised that Michael Blooomberg came into the Democratic debate so unprepared to answer questions about his record that had been previewed in media reports.

The billionaire was attacked at the debate over his use of non-disclosure agreements. His one-hour question-and-answer session with voters has been moved to Wednesday.

A top advisor to Mike Bloomberg's campaign brought up Bernie Sanders' unusual 1960s writings about sexuality and cancer, as candidates prepare to debate tonight in Charleston.

President Trump floated that it was possible the U.S. could ban travel from Italy and other countries that have seen higher rates of coronavirus cases.

Dr Anthony Fauci, of the National Institutes of Health, says the coronavirus outbreak is similar to the HIV/AIDS epidemic of the 1980s in terms of fear and anxiety among the public.

Bill de Blasio said Tuesday morning he is 'absolutely considering' a shelter in place order for New York City - a move that would mark a major escalation in the mayor's coronavirus containment efforts.

Mayor London Breed (top right) rebutted comments made by CNN's Jake Tapper (bottom right), who criticized San Francisco residents on Tuesday for being out (left) despite shelter-in-place orders.

In an impassioned plea to President Trump on CNN, de Blasio said New York's hospitals would run out of ventilators and surgical masks in two or three weeks.

Thousands of New York City stores are boarding up their doors as they face indefinite closure amid the coronavirus crisis. The Big Apple is now the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak in the US.

FEMA Administrator Peter Gaynor said the administration was going to use the Defense Production Act 'today' to procure critical medical gear, but did not specify precisely where or how.

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio says that the city hospitals only have enough supplies to last a week through Sunday April 5 and is pleading with the president to send more equipment and doctors.

Government experts are considering a recommendation that all Americans begin wearing face coverings while in public - although only once there are enough for medical professionals.

Last Sunday, senior immunologist Anthony Fauci issued a cautious prediction that COVID-19 could claim 100,000 to 200,000 lives in America.

Chicken soup has been applauded by CNN host Chris Cuomo for breaking his coronavirus fever as he warns of the 'lies' being sold as fake cures on the internet.

NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer, whose mother Arlene Stringer-Cuevas died aged 86 of complications from COVID-19, spoke out about the devastating loss on Monday.

Coronavirus -stricken CNN host Chris Cuomo has shared X-rays of his lungs which show the effects of the virus up close.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Cuomo told Howard Stern that he did not believe President Trump (left) was happy that his brother, Chris (right), contracted the coronavirus.

Steven Mnuchin said that a deal for small business relief could be reached within Democrats as early as Sunday night as he continues negotiations with Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi.

There is still no deal for an expansion to the payment protection program - even though lawmakers and White House officials said they were hopeful a deal would be reached by Monday morning.

President Donald Trump claimed that reports of North Korea's Kim Jong Un being gravely ill was 'fake news' from CNN during Thursday's daily COVID-19 briefing

Jill Biden said Friday that Michelle Obama would be a great vice president for her husband but added that her friend seemed done with politics. 

Treasure Island (above) said it will adhere to orders from Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak (bottom right). Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman (top right) has demanded lockdown be lifted.

Social media users have accused Cristina Cuomo of 'stupidity' after sharing on her lifestyle blog that she poured half a cup of Clorox in her bath twice a week as a coronavirus treatment.

David Whelan claimed that the anchor berated him as he asked Cuomo why he was not self-quarantining on Easter Sunday.

Dr. Deborah Birx called some of the headlines she's read 'slicey and dicey' and said Sunday she doesn't think President Trump's disinfectant comments should still be news.

'China did a lot of things right at the beginning, like any country where a virus first shows up,' the Microsoft co-founder told CNN on Sunday. Chinese President Xi Jinping is seen in the inset photo.

Gov. Whitmer, main, argued not 'every claim is equal'. 'I support Joe Biden', she said Sunday on CNN. Tara Reade, bottom inset, alleges Biden, top inset, sexually assaulted her in 1993.

'He is named after my father, who died when I was ten. I hope I can be as good a dad as he was,' the CNN town hall anchor, Anderson Cooper, said on Thursday night.

Chris Christia, Former New Jersey governor (pictured) has said Americans are 'gonna have to' accept the economy reopening before the coronavirus has been brought under control.

President Trump said Wednesday that the White House would stick to its position in an upcoming Supreme Court case that could strike down Obamacare in full.

EXCLUSIVE BY SAMI MOKBEL: Saido Berahino will play for Nimes in their pre season game against Toulouse today while he waits for his Stoke departure to be finalised.