A major scare over Vladimir Putin's health emerged today as Russia's top coronavirus doctor was stuck down with Covid-19 - one week after meeting and shaking hands with the president.

Russia's youngest Covid-19 victim who was working from home and looking after her children before she succumbed to the disease, posted updates of her illness while losing her fight for life.

Trenton Thurber had been trying to make it home to Tucson via JFK from Sheremetyevo International Airport on March 30 when his flight was canceled. 'There's no way to get out', he said.

Khabib Nurmagomedov's total net worth has been revealed as £80million by the Russian fighter's father.  The reigning UFC lightweight champion is undefeated in his career which began in 2008.

These first pictures show the wards at the new £92million clinic in Moscow which in recent days has seen 10,000-plus construction workers deployed round the clock.

The country reported a record one-day rise of 1,459 new cases on Thursday as well as an increase in the national death toll from 13 to 76.

Orthodox elder Iliy Nozdrin was seen alongside another prominent priest with icons and a cross blessing residents of Moscow and St Petersburg. He flew in a jet above the two cities.

Brazilian Malcom had been in good form before the shutdown, putting in two impressive displays - scoring a goal and providing one assist and being crowned as the best player in March.

According to declassified footnotes from the Steele dossier, the FBI found reported falsehoods among the allegations against Trump's election campaign

Former FBI boss James Comey made a series of thinly-veiled digs at Donald Trump and his response to the coronavirus pandemic in a column for the Washington Post.

Compared to the previous three months, China's economy is forecast to be almost 10 per cent down and with a 6 per cent drop on last year. The UK economy could shrink by up to 15 to 25 per cent.

Professor Sergei Netesov says Moscow is facing a major crisis with hospitals already in emergency mode and the health service stretched to the limit.

Concerns circulate whether crew aboard the International Space Station could have been infected with coronavirus prior to a launch, after a senior Russian official present tested positive.

On Friday, officials reported a record rise of 4,069 new COVID-19 cases in Russia, bringing its nationwide tally to 32,007, with 273 deaths. A new £92m hospital has been made in just 36 days.

Twenty of the new cases were in Heilongjiang province (pictured, a makeshift hospital there), including 13 Chinese nationals who had returned recently from Russia.

Moscow is offering cash to recovered patients who donate blood, hoping that they will have developed antibodies which can help other people fight off the disease (pictured, recipient Alexander Kutuzov).

Russia reported 4,774 new cases of coronavirus Thursday - marking the second straight day of decline - despite warnings that the country is rapidly running out of hospital beds.

Sergei Sobyanin said Russia's 0.9 per cent mortality rate was so low because of mass testing which leads to a high number of confirmed infections.

Infections outside Moscow and its surrounding region have soared 110 per cent in the past week.

Analysts and President Vladimir Putin's political enemies wonder if his long and brutal reign might fall victim to the coronavirus crisis amid the perilous effects of the pandemic in Russia.

Mother-of-two Dr Yelena Nepomnyashchaya, 47, plunged 50ft from an office window in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, after being told her hospital would treat coronavirus patients, despite lack of PPE.

The Russian government reported a total of 87,147 cases on Monday, which is almost 4,000 more than China's official toll of 83,912.

Natalya Lebedeva had been accused of failing to stop an outbreak of Covid-19 inside the restricted Star City (file phot) where cosmonauts are trained, colleagues claimed.

Col. Gen. Andrei Burlaka, the FSB Border Service's chief of operational staff, has been named as the highest-ranking person of interest in the investigation into the downing of the plane.

The victim Maria from Russia sought help from her hospital and an online forum but was refused an appointment due to the lockdown and a ban on nonessential consultations.

The 7,099 new cases - surpassing the previous high of 6,411 on Tuesday - bring Russia's total from 99,399 to 106,498, the eighth-highest tally in the world.

Mikhail Mishustin, Russia's Prime Minister, has today said he has tested positive for the coronavirus as Russia's death toll today reached 1,000 and its total number of cases broke through 100,000 (graph).

Russia's coronavirus crisis continues to worsen with a record 7,922 cases recorded the day after Prime Minister Mikhail Mishtushin (left, inset) tested positive for the disease.

Deaths from coronavirus rose by 58 to 1,280, official figures show, as Russia is now recording more new infections than any European country. New infections rose with 10,633 cases in the past 24 hours.

Vladimir Putin (pictured) has seen his trust ratings fall following dissatisfaction with the Russian government's handling of the coronavirus crisis as cases of the disease continue to rise.

Prestbury House is located off Hampton Court Road in London, and boasts eight large bedrooms, substantial gardens and plenty of grand living spaces as well as modern interior.

The latest rise of 10,102 cases, bringing the total from 145,268 to 155,370, confirms Russia's place as Europe's new virus hotbed as infections slow elsewhere.

Sergei Sobyanin, mayor of Moscow, said data suggests 2.5 per cent of the city's population have had the virus - meaning 300,000 cases - despite Russia officially tallying just 177,160.

Iran has vowed to exact a 'crushing revenge' on America in retaliation for a strike which killed top general Qassem Soluemani, leaving the Middle East on the brink of a 'devastating war'.

Holidaymakers were attracted to Ova hotel in Oludeniz by pictures of families splashing in the pool. But, under Zehra hotels, pools will now be segregated by gender and alcohol has been banned.

After admitting she doesn't like to step on the scale following the birth of her first child in November, Kate Upton showed off her trim swimsuit body in a photo posted to her Instagram.

The 27-year-old actress and model beamed in matching gymwear while out and about in Los Angeles on Thursday.

'I LOVE talking about sports and reading all of the dumb misogynist comments. It reminds me that women need to keep fighting for equality. It's 2019 but feels like the 1950s,' she tweeted.

Melissa Jackson claims Neighbours star Sharon Johal wore a similar looking hat she designed for supermodel Coco Rocha in 2013, for Derby Day in Melbourne on Saturday.

The 49-year-old Wreck-It-Ralph star, who was once again joined by her assistant Annie Segal, looked joyful, as she banged on a pot from her apartment balcony in New York City.

The pop superstar, 50, was dressed in a black hoodie and leggings. Her hair was tied back into a messy bun with a few tendrils left loose and falling down over one side of her face.

Nine parishioners at Mount Neboh Baptist Church, a predominately black church in New York City, have died of coronavirus in the last month.

Three men, aged 42, 64 and 70, have been found dead over the weekend in at the Hilton Garden Inn hotel in Manhattan that was used to quarantine recovering COVID-19 patients.

Officers were called to the party following a tip-off and found the third-floor gathering in a vacant commercial building on West 23rd Street in Manhattan's Flatiron District.

There were 1,308 new hospitalizations from COVID-19 across the state on Monday which is the lowest number since March 25.

NYC will begin storing the bodies of coronavirus victims in freezer trucks to help ease the strain on the city's overflowing hospital morgues and overwhelmed funeral homes.

CNN's Jake Tapper joins a chorus of critics slamming New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's call for a ticker-tape parade in the city when the coronavirus lockdown is lifted as 'stupid'.

Australian television presenter Scott Tweedie has spoken candidly about the 'eerie' moment he became aware of how serious the coronavirus pandemic was.

Emergency room doctors say coronavirus patients are coming into the hospital with pneumonia and low oxygen levels, but they aren't struggling to breathe, meaning they are in critical condition already.

Excess mortality figures - the number of deaths that occur above seasonal averages - from 13 countries and regions have revealed some 31,000 deaths not being counted in official totals.