Intelligence officials estimate there are 2,500 to 3,000 ISIS fighters still in Iraq, three years after the group's defeat. A further 500 escaped from prison in Syria last month, fuelling violence resurgence.

Guadalupe Fernández Valencia, 59, entered the two guilty pleas in a Chicago courtroom on Wednesday - almost two years after she was extradited to the United States from Mexico.

U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan has denied Joaguin 'El Chapo' Guzman Loera's request for a retrial in his drug trafficking case. Defense lawyers unsuccessfully argued there was jury misconduct.

That passport also listed Epstein's residence as being in Saudi Arabia said Rossmiller, who revealed it was found in a locked safe during the search of he pedophile's home earlier this month.

Jeffrey Epstein obtained a passport from Austria in the 1980s 'for personal protection in the event of travel to dangerous areas, only to be presented to potential kidnappers, hijackers and terrorists'

Months before El Chapo was extradited to the United States in January 2017, the drug lord already had a plan in place to escape from the same Mexican prison once fled in two years earlier.

El Chapo's deadly Mexican drug cartel is flooding Melbourne streets with meth, aiming to cash in massive profits to be made in Australia. 

A funeral has been held in Sinaloa, Mexico, for one of El Chapo's 'top assassins' dubbed the 'Kim Kardashian of crime.' She was found dead from a suspected drug overdose earlier this month.

In 2015, Bolivia's ex-president Evo Morales gave parliament access to El Chapo's son, Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar, who also took aircraft pilot classes before he disappeared.

Anthony Comello reportedly told his lawyers that he killed Francesco Cali because the mob boss was a part of the 'deep state' plan to undermine President Trump.

Officials in the Mexican state of Sinaloa report that murders dropped by 60 percent from 2010 to 2019, but El Chapo's old cartel still holds power in his home state.

A former Colombia treasury officials says his country's ex president Álvaro Uribe set up an airport hangar that allowed El Chapo to traffic 10,000 kilos of cocaine to Mexico from 2006 to 2007.

Carlos Alberto Salazar was captured by the Colombian police in January while buying tickets for Colombia's 2020 Olympic soccer qualifier match.

Genaro García Luna, who allegedly took millions in bribes from El Chapo's cartel, wants a New York federal court judge to put him under house arrest over fears that he will die if infected with coronavirus.

Miss World Australia 2017 winner Esma Voloder and two other beauty queens headed to Canberra with World Vision to ask Australia to boost its foreign aide budget.

Rudy Giuliani alleges the U.S. Embassy - led by then-Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch - 'quashed' corruption probe into the disappearance of foreign aid that was going to George Soros.

Latifi's step up from his role as reserve driver had been widely expected following the announcement that Kubica's short-lived comeback to would be coming to an end.

JONATHAN McEVOY IN ABU DHABI: Ferrari's squabbling drivers have been let off scot-free for crashing into each other in Brazil last week and are still free to race each other.

Lewis Hamilton on Saturday night fluttered his eyelashes at Ferrari, as the wooing and cooing over his future hotted up in the desert.

Under new rules introduced this year, a digital chequered flag mounted on the starting lights gantry took precedence over the physical flag.

The 34-year-old racer became just the second driver in the sport's history to win six titles - and needs just one more to match all-time great Michael Schumacher's record.

Charles Leclerc has signed a five-year contract to remain with Ferrari following a successful maiden campaign with Ferrari, rewarding the Frenchman with a new and improved deal.

Following a number of on-track disputes last season - the pair's first together at Ferrari - their battle reached boiling point when they crashed into each other at the Interlagos circuit.

Formula One bosses have been accused of getting into bed with the Saudis who 'stole' their own TV rights deal.

Hamilton, whose Mercedes contract is set to expire at the end of the year, had held informal talks about joining Ferrari last year but any move now looks dead in the water.

The Grove outfit endured a turbulent 2019 in which they failed to make the start of pre-season testing before finishing last in the constructors' championship with just one point.

The Chinese Grand Prix could be rescheduled for November as part of a two-day event sandwiched in between the Brazilian and Abu Dhabi races after the original race was postponed.

Sebastian Vettel has fallen ill on the opening day of Formula One testing after posing for group pictures on the starting grid with the other drivers. The four-time champion was due to test Ferrari's new SF1000.

The Chinese Grand Prix, which was scheduled for April, has already been cancelled amid growing fears about the virus but F1 chief Chase Carey has announced it is 'all systems go' for Melbourne.

Formula One's most prominent woman, Claire Williams, has criticised the sport's 'disgraceful 19th Century' accusation that her becoming a mother has caused her team's decline.

WILL JEANES IN MARRAKESH: Felipe Massa says the future of gas-guzzling Formula One is under threat due to the climate emergency.

The seven teams, which includes Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes, Red Bull and McLaren, are concerned that that FIA's probe does not identify whether Ferrari bent the rules.

JONATHAN MCEVOY: Seven Formula One teams have threatened to take Ferrari and the governing body, the FIA, to court for hushing up a potentially illegal Ferrari engine.

On Wednesday, seven of Formula One's 10 teams published a joint statement expressing surprise and shock at the FIA's confidential agreement with Ferrari.

Italy is currently on on lockdown due to the spread of the coronavirus, with the country's prime minister Giuseppe Conte ordering 60 million citizens not to travel or even socialise in coming days.

EXCLUSIVE BY JONATHAN MCEVOY IN MELBOURNE: Todt has told Formula One's teams he took the decision to strike a settlement with his old team over their allegedly illegal engine.

It is understood that the team member reported symptoms associated with the disease in the Albert Park paddock on Wednesday morning.

FIA president Jean Todt accused the seven teams angered by their investigation into Ferrari's suspect engine of making 'false, injurious and defamatory' allegations.

Hamilton said it was 'shocking' that the Australian Grand Prix could go ahead amid the threat of the coronavirus and suggested organisers had put financial concerns ahead of people's health.

JONATHAN McEVOY IN MELBOURNE: The season-opening race has been abandoned here in the early hours of Friday morning after a McLaren mechanic was diagnosed with coronavirus.

Formula One boss Chase Carey has issued a public apology for the last-minute cancellation of the Australian Grand Prix. It was called off 90 minutes before first practice.

Many drivers are out of contract at the end of the season, including Vettel and his former Red Bull team-mate, and Renault fear Ricciardo could leave for Ferrari if they fail to make significant progress.

Daniel Ricciardo reveals he is still benefitting from a good training regime despite coronavirus disrupting plans for the 2020 Formula One calendar. 

McLaren now have all their employees home from Australia after a period in quarantine following a positive test at the cancelled season-opener in Melbourne.

Eight rounds have been postponed, and more look likely to follow with countries in lockdown, but F1 bosses have said they hope to get back on track some time in the European summer.

The rules which would have effectively started a new era for F1 by pushing the reset button were set to come into force for 2021 before the coronavirus pushed their introduction back a year to save costs.

The Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal has joined a growing list of Formula One races postponed due to the new coronavirus pandemic on Tuesday, with the 2020 season yet to get on the starting grid.

Sportsmail recounts Ian Wooldridge's thrilling escapades alongside motor racing legend Sir Stirling Moss, who has passed away aged 90, in the 1991 Mille Miglia motor race...

McLaren team principal Andreas Seidl has warned that a number of Formula One teams could fold if a crisis meeting on Thursday does not endorse money-saving plans.

So far nine Formula One Grand Prix meetings have been postponed or cancelled with the French GP likely to follow. F1 bosses however hope to start the season in Austria in July.