JONATHAN McEVOY IN MEXICO CITY: Lewis Hamilton came as close to winning his sixth world championship title as anyone's nerves could stand without actually doing so.

JONATHAN MCEVOY IN AUSTIN: The props of his life were showing up in Texas as Lewis Hamilton edged ineluctably towards one of the greatest achievements in the history of British sport.

JONATHAN McEVOY: Formula One's image of oil and engines, noise and smells, is to be cast off as owners Liberty Media promise to make grand prix racing net zero carbon by 2030.

JONATHAN McEVOY IN SAO PAULO: Hamilton will seek reassurances over Toto Wolff's plans before committing his future to Mercedes as he reveals Ayrton Senna-inspired helmet for Interlagos race.

The rugby hunk, 34, cut a casual figure as he stepped out for a low-key day with new love interest Nicole Scherzinger, 41, in Los Angeles, California on Friday.

The Chinese Grand Prix has become the latest sporting event to fall victim to the coronavirus after Formula One confirmed that it has been postponed. 

F1 world champion Sebastian Vettel said the drivers are prepared to pull out of this weekend's Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne - effectively cancelling the event - due to coronavirus fears.

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.

EXCLUSIVE BY JONATHAN McEVOY: F1 giants McLaren became the sport's first team to place staff on furlough, with their drivers volunteering to take pay cuts themselves.

Lewis Hamilton has paid an emotional tribute to Sir Stirling Moss after the British motor racing icon died at the age of 90. The British world champion said he is grateful for his 'friendship' with the icon.

The Pope made the comments during a three-week meeting to discuss the priest shortage in the Amazon. The Vatican are considering ordaining married men and giving women ministries.

Pope Francis concluded the first full day of his visit to Thailand by leading Mass for 60,000 Catholics, urging respect for sex workers, trafficking victims, drug addicts, and 'exploited sinners'.

Deontay Wilder became just the third American heavyweight to have an audience with the Pope on Friday. Following the meeting, Wilder fuelled further talk of a potential fight with Anthony Joshua.

Cardinal Joao Braz de Aviz confirmed the house's existence during an interview for the February issue of the Vatican's magazine Women Church World.

Cardinal Angelo De Donatis has today issued a new decree, stating that some of Rome's churches will stay open, despite his initial order to close all of the religious sites just a day ago.

Giuseppe Berardelli, 72, from Casigno in Italy's hardest-hit Lombardy region, died from coronavirus last week - but locals say he did not give up his respirator as was first reported.

Richard D. Clayton, 26, of Winter Park, Florida was arrested on Friday after authorities said he posted, '3 more days of probation left then I get my AR-15 back. Don't go to Walmart next week,' on Facebook.

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.

John Davis (left), 59, was arrested for allegedly stealing a scooter (right, file image) from Walmart and driving it about a mile away until the batter ran out. He was jailed on a grand theft charge.

Vergara was her own best advertisement as she modeled a chic evil eye shirt from her own Walmart line Sofia Jeans during a visit to the upscale Saks Fifth Avenue.

The 57-year-old singer was making the press rounds in New York City, spotted at Buzzfeed's AM to DM show and Build Series on Thursday afternoon.

A crowd gathered at the Walmart Supercenter in Alpharetta, Georgia, and witnessed two strangers share a beautiful moment in song. Video was filmed last year but recently went viral.

Walmart launched its first beauty brand, Glow Habit, on Monday, offering up four different vegan supplements: Good Skin Habit, Happy Hair Habit, Probiotic Habit, and Sleep Well Habit.

The canned meat brand announced the fall flavor in August, and it was available on Spam.com and Walmart.com on September 23. That same day, Spam announced that it had already sold out.

Kevin Butcher was selecting an outfit for his father's burial in a Milford Walmart on Monday with his wife, Sherri, but neither of them knew how to tie a tie.

Peter James McGaughran, 32, of Delaware was arrested on October 2 after surveillance footage captured him choking a Walmart cashier in an unprovoked attack in Stuart, Florida

Pilot Anthony Vella 'craved' a peanut butter and jelly sandwich so flew his paramotor to El Paso's Walmart, Texas, to get ingredients and made the snack mid air, in clip posted on September 20.

Hostess wants you to have Twinkies for breakfast. The snack brand has teamed up with Post on the new product, recreating the beloved cream-filled sponge cake in cereal form.

The company's newest wireless earbuds, the AirPod Pro, which were released this past October, have now sold out from nearly every major online retailer, including Best Buy, Walmart, Target, Amazon.

American shoppers spent a record $34.4billion on Super Saturday, the biggest single day in American retail history, but the weekend was marred by violent incidents at several locations.

Brianna Ridge says she found the letter in a toy bought from a Walmart in Wasilla. Addressed to kids, it says Santa, reindeer, and elves aren't real and that presents come from parents.

The Winter Haven Police Department shared in a Wednesday Facebook post that the thief rolled into the store at 355 Cypress Gardens Blvd and glided out of the store with the items without paying.

Walmart was criticized after its official Twitter account made an insensitive joke regarding the late actor Paul Walker. in response to a Twitter user that claimed to be 'racin' to the supermarket.

Clarksville, Tennessee, police responded to a report on Sunday of a man who appeared trapped in a clothing and shoe donation bin near the Walmart supercenter on Wilma Rudolph Boulevard.

A man (pictured) wearing a yellow face mask and a sign on his back reading, 'Caution, I have the Coronavirus,' walked into a Walmart store in Illinois (inset) and sprayed Lysol on merchandise.

The bomb squad took Spot to a Walmart in Westboro, Massachusetts after employees spotted a suspicious looking 'old brown briefcase' abandoned on a bin in the car park.

Chains such as Publix, Giant, Harris Teeter and Wegmans are all scaling back hours, while retail titan Walmart has admitted it is evaluating whether to close 24-hour stores at night.

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.

Walmart is the latest in a line of major grocery store chains forced to reduce its hours on Saturday amid the coronavirus pandemic as panic shopping continues.  

Stop & Shop welcomed seniors to its first seniors-only shopping hour on Thursday morning as Walmart added its name to the list of stores offering designated shopping hours to people over 60.

President Donald Trump has expressed his gratitude for companies like Walmart and FedEx that have been 'working nonstop' to help Americans amid the coronavirus outbreak.

South Carolina mother Courtney Watts Doster has shared her baby Emmett's battle against coronavirus in a desperate Facebook appeal where she warned COVID-19 can strike even the very young.

Hundreds of thousands of employees will be tested each day for fevers. Amazon has reported virus cases among warehouse staff and faced protests.

A civil rights lawyer has identified the black man who was shot and killed at a San Leandro, California, Walmart on Saturday after swinging a bat as Steve Taylor, 33, a father-of-three.

State Health officials shutdown a Walmart Supercenter in Aurora, Colorado, after two employees and spouse linked to the store died of coronavirus this month

Workers at Amazon, Instacart, Whole Foods, Walmart, Target and FedEx plan to take part in the May 1 protest by calling out sick or walking off the job site, according to The Intercept.

Hundreds of essential workers at some of America's biggest companies have called out sick or are planning to walk off the job Friday afternoon.

Walmart, which operates urgent care clinics in several of its stores, said it did not request the federal funds, which were sent out automatically to thousands of healthcare providers.

Mohammed Reza Haque, known as the Jihadi Giant due to his 6ft 6in frame, fled the UK in 2014 and survived until the final days of the so-called IS 'caliphate' before he was killed in Syria.

Charlotte Coleman, who daughter, Olivia (pictured), died in the Manchester Arena attack of 2017 has praised US soldiers after they cornered the ISIS leader and he detonated his own suicide vest.