When it comes to type 2 diabetes, we need to stop thinking about weight. While we associate the condition with obesity, it is really related to fat around and inside our organs, writes DR ELLIE.

New parents are not expected to have any other vaccinations to protect their newborns and therefore it's safe to assume that relatives don't need to either, writes DR ELLIE CANNON.

DR ELLIE CANNON advises readers to ignore celebrities such as Stacey Solomon, pictured, and avoid wasting their cash on fashionable vitamin drips.

There will be many more cases in the coming weeks. Up to eight in ten of us may contract Covid-19, according to some projections. Despite this, I believe this is not a cause for panic, says DR ELLIE.

DR ELLIE CANNON: As a GP who cares passionately about the health of my patients, but also as someone with my own family and friends, I understand why people are so concerned.

A reader asks DR ELLIE CANNON whether his wife's carer will still be allowed to call to the house during the coronavirus outbreak or will he have to cope with this situation on his own.

DR ELLIE CANNON: Even in my position, it is hard not to be sucked in by the scare stories or to be frightened by the amateur statisticians tweeting online. Some of the claims I read make my blood boil.

DR ELLIE CANNON: The Mail on Sunday's GP discusses Covid-19 testing, the effectiveness of face masks, whether we need to wipe down our groceries and more in this week's column.

DR ELLIE CANNON, pictured, has changed her mind about the need to use masks in public and now urges people to make their own from old T-shirts to help protect people from Covid-19.

DR ELLIE CANNON: A makeshift face-covering stops you from passing on the virus if you are infected, even if you don't have any symptoms or haven't started showing them yet.

DR ELLIE CANNON reveals how the oximeter, pictured, a simple tool available easily on the high street, can help catch Covid-19 before it turns deadly.

DR ELLIE CANNON: The Mail on Sunday's GP discusses B&Q reopening, pictured, how to obtain a free test, whether it's safe to hug grandchildren and more in this week's column.

In an emotional interview with Today on Wednesday morning, Carl and Marsha Mueller said they believed their volunteer daughter - who was taken hostage by ISIS in 2013 may still be alive.

Manal Aqrawe, had been living in Mosul, Iraq, when the terror group took over.   After moving to Brisbane she claims landing a healthcare job has been difficult.

An Australian student convicted of being a member of the Islamic State terror group has had her guilty verdict overturned on appeal.

Yazidi activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad has called for all ISIS jihadists to be given Nuremberg-style trials in a series of tweets on Monday.

FBI Director Christopher Wray said Wednesday in Washington: 'Terrorism today moves at the speed of social media' and the rapid development of technology has helped boost lone terrorists.

Seven Russian mercenaries were killed in two separate attacks claimed by ISIS in Mozambique last month, including four who were ambushed, shot and then beheaded.

An Arizona border sheriff says Mexican drug cartels like the one behind the Mormon family massacre pose an ISIS-like threat as authorities fear the same group could be running drug operations in Utah.

Male lions Thor and Mumford and white lionesses Isis and Mia died in torment after the killers tossed the deadly meals into their compounds at Hartbeespoort near Johannesburg.

Colin Theaker, 30, was jailed for three years in March after pleading guilty to manslaughter after he accidentally killed Scott Hetherington, 22, when they were on deployment in Iraq in 2017.

The government of Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan (pictured) has frequently criticised Western countries for refusing to take back their ISIS fighters.

ISIS has revealed a guide to killing world leaders, urging lone wolves to masquerade as journalists so they can smuggle bombs near to politicians like President Trump.

One aide to a senior official in the Oval Office meeting said Erdogan's footage 'looked like an ISIS propaganda film made by the guys from South Park.'

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

Three kilograms of the volatile explosive triacetone triperoxide was found by a fisherman in the Leschenault Estuary 150km south of Perth in 2013.

CCTV footage shows the moment the knifeman, 26, had walked up behind unsuspecting James Knox, screaming 'Allahu Akbar!' and 'Long live the Caliphate!' as he stabbed his victim repeatedly.

Identified only as Aisha, the woman who lived in the Islamic State's capital of Raqqa, described how she desperately went to officials after her husband was 'martyred' and was given harrowing work.

Ali Khalif Shire Ali admitted planning a terror attack in which he wanted to gun down hundreds of people celebrating New Year's Eve at Federation Square in 2017.

Suspected ISIS bride Lisa Smith has been charged with terror offences by police in Dublin relating to her time living in the so-called Islamic State.

The Hellfire R9X was reportedly aiming at an Al-Qaeda target travelling between Azaz and Afrin in northern Aleppo, Syria. A jihadist leader and two others were killed.

Lisa Smith, 38, was charged with ISIS membership earlier this month in Dublin. She reportedly wears a black traditional abaya robe in her cell where she spends 20 hours a day.

Khaled Khayat, 52, was jailed for for 40 years and Mahmoud Khayat, 34, for 36 years, with non-parole periods of 30 years and 27 years respectively, over the foiled plot at Sydney Airport in 2017.

A 218-page indictment filed by Portuguese prosecutors accuses Cassimo Ture (pictured) of 'providing fundamental support to terrorist organisations'.

Eddie and his wife Andrea shared a series of images from Florida on Saturday, left. They gave Trump 'a little gift from Eddie's deployment to Mosul', right, during the chat.

Omar Emwazi, 26, pretended the barriers and ticket machines in a London car park were out of order and asked drivers for cash that he simply pocketed.

Behzad Bahmanzad worked at the store in Plymouth, Devon, for five years and said he was bullied by other staff members who repeatedly called him 'ISIS', 'terrorist' and 'bomber'.

US general David Petraeus, who led the CIA from 2011 to 2012, said Friday's killing of Qassem Suleimani by Baghdad International Airport was also more important than ISIS's al-Baghdadi's death.

Brookfield Zoo in Illinois announced the death of African lion Isis, after she fell from a 15-foot height and was discovered with severe injuries which led veterinary staff to euthanize her.

MICK HUME: The great danger is that Ofcom's powers to police the internet will not actually make us or our children safer, but will instead give rise to censorship.

The young child is the daughter of Kirsty Rosse-Emile - a Melbourne woman who travelled with her husband Nabil Kadmiry to Syria in 2014. Kadmiry was an ISIS fighter before his capture.

A woman accused of recruiting an Islamic State fighter has faced a Melbourne court on terrorism charges.

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Today's edition of You Couldn't Make It Up comes courtesy of Islamic State, which has advised jihadists to steer clear of Europe in case they catch coronavirus.

The Islamic State has released a new newsletter from their al-Naba publication claiming the virus is God's response to non-believing nations.

The families of three men who were brutally murdered by a terror cell from the so-called Islamic State have said they are 'deeply concerned' about a ruling made by the UK's highest court.

The brother of a British volunteer kidnapped and murdered by Islamic State says he believes the abduction was an 'inside job' by someone on the aid convoy he was part of (pictured, Reg Henning).

Police sources said today that British-Egyptian jihadist Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary was the 'foreign terrorist fighter' detained in a raid in Almeria on Monday.

The horrifying attack took place in the northern suburb of Colombes shortly after 5.30pm on Monday and left one of the officers in intensive care.

Police are looking into the possibility Isis 'sleepers' have been 'reactivated' and are plotting attacks around Europe. Two weeks ago Britain's most wanted ISIS fugitive, who has links to Jihadi John, was arrested.

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.