Birmingham City players became the first Championship club to accept wage deferrals this week and Premier League stars are concerned they will be asked to follow suit.

The EFL and Premier League could both return in early June after what would, by then, have been a three-month enforced break due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Chelsea have reportedly entered talks with Leicester over a move for Ben Chilwell, so how could the Foxes full-back fit in at Stamford Bridge?

Chelsea news and gossip is coming in thick and fast so Express Sport is on hand to bring you all the very latest from Stamford Bridge.

Premier League clubs will disinfect the grass when the season resumes.

Chelsea and Manchester United have joined Tottenham in the pursuit of Paris Saint-Germain star Thomas Meunier.

Canada has backed an American-led effort to allow Taiwan to be granted observer status at the World Health Organization because of its early success in containing COVID-19.

Jihadists linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State organization have been overrunning gold mines, forcing the miners to sell them the gold exclusively, which is then smuggled and sold across the border in places like Benin, Ghana or Togo.

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has approved amendments to the country's state of emergency that grant him and security agencies additional powers, which the government says are needed to combat the coronavirus outbreak.

More than two months after a black man was shot to death while jogging on a Sunday afternoon, Georgia investigators concluded that the facts show enough evidence to jail a white father and son on charges of felony murder and aggravated assault.

Russian President Vladimir Putin marked Victory Day, the anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in the Second World War, in a ceremony shorn of its usual military parade and pomp by the coronavirus pandemic.

Data from Sweden's Public Health Agency confirmed that Somali Swedes made up almost 5 per cent of the country's COVID-19 cases, yet represented less than 1 per cent of its 10 million people.

Cuộc đời lưỡng quốc nguyên soái Konstantin Rokossovsky nói nhiều về lịch sử khó khăn giữa hai dân tộc Nga và Ba Lan.

Bộ phim Cái chết của Stalin của đạo diễn Armando Iannucci đặt ra một câu hỏi có thể ứng với nhiều quốc gia khác trong lịch sử.

Nhưng các số liệu chỉ cho thấy đôi nét về cuộc khủng hoảng toàn diện, vì nhiều biện pháp phong tỏa đã không được áp dụng cho tới tháng Ba.

Nhà phân tích chính trị từ ĐH George Mason trả lời câu hỏi Việt Nam có nên tìm cách liên minh với các nước khác để đối trọng với Trung Quốc.

Giới phân tích cho rằng thay đổi chính sách về dân số của Việt Nam là cần thiết để tránh “mối nguy hiểm” đối với an ninh quốc gia sau thời gian dài hạn chế sinh đẻ.

Hai khu tượng đài Xô Viết nhắc lại những năm tháng bi tráng, đầy nước mắt của nước Đức.

Belarus tổ chức duyệt binh mừng Ngày chiến thắng Phát xít trong lúc Nga buộc phải hủy vì virus corona.

Bình luận về “cơ hội sống” của tử tù Hồ Duy Hải sau khi phiên xử giám đốc thẩm của Tòa án Nhân dân Tối cao Việt Nam đã ra phán quyết hôm 08/5/2020.

HALVING the "arbitrary" two metre social distancing rule would make a huge difference to the economy without jeopardising health, a government pandemic advisor said last night.

DONALD Trump's bid to win a second term in the White House could be damaged by coronavirus because he can no longer hold the rallies that swept him to power.

SPAIN'S 24-hour death toll from coronavirus has hit one of the lowest levels since March 18.

STRICTLY star Craig Revel Horwood has revealed that the show can still go on in September despite coronavirus - but it will be Strictly Social Distancing.

IRANIAN agents are delivering suitcases stuffed with £800,000 in cash to Hezbollah terrorists despite the Islamic state begging for financial help to deal with coronavirus, it is claimed.

BRITAIN'S army of volunteers have been hailed as "lifesavers" by carrying out 75,000 tasks during the lockdown crisis.

PRINCE William rejected the idea of marriage for several years before proposing to his then-girlfriend Kate Middleton.

YOUNG Princess Elizabeth's night out celebrating VE Day on the streets of London helped turn her into a Queen like no other.

Here's the question. With coronavirus raising its ugly head in this green and pleasant land, and with a pressing desire not to catch the horrible bug or pass it on to nearest and dearest - not to mention vulnerable strangers - at which point do we pitch in and speak out?

MAYBE it's because on my BBC Radio London Breakfast Show we currently talk of almost nothing else from 7-10am every day - we do try to slot in other subjects but no one calls about them - that by the time I emerge from the studio I'm so acutely aware of steadily encroaching coronavirus that I jump three feet in the air if somebody so much as sneezes.

I love her so much I'd like to send her a bunch of daffs and a hug. I've never met her, but she's 100 percent my Pin-up Pensioner Poster Girl for coronavirus.

HOW did you muddle through the longest weekend in world history? Here's how my other half and I botched the whole flipping thing up over at Feltz Towers. Following excellent advice, we were determined to have a structure, a schedule and stick to it.

LABELS, who needs them? Do you really want to be branded a lockdown "accepter", "sufferer" or "resister"? What is the point of shoving us into personality pigeonholes as if we are predestined to capitulate, throw in the towel, or give up?

VE DAY will be spent at home this year due to coronavirus. Here are some great baking ideas to help you celebrate at home.

GIN-LOVERS rejoice as Express.co.uk has two very simple gimlet recipes for you to try at home.

FLOUR shortages across the UK mean new and old bakers alike are struggling to make their favourite recipes. If you've run out of self-raising flour, can you make the British classic scones with plain flour?

ALDI has revealed it is changing the way customers can get hold of its Specialbuy products. The budget supermarket has made changes due to the current coronavirus crisis.

SHOPPERS could save hundreds of pounds a year simply by making the swap from fresh foods to tinned alternatives, according to an exclusive cost comparison. What's more, an expert nutritionist weighs in on why buying canned food could help you to stick to healthy habits, especially in lockdown.

CADBURY has expanded its offering, with two new Dairy Milk flavours, as well as bringing back a retro favourite. Where can you buy them?

I was on another flight, London to France, just a few days after returning from two weeks there, and it wasn’t to retrieve the headphones I lost. In typical Hammond fashion, we made a snap decision to return to France and revisit the house we almost bought last year.

Manchester United are hoping to sign Jadon Sancho this summer as part of a revamp under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Newcastle are keen on landing Philippe Coutinho and Liverpool may be able to sign Timo Werner on the cheap.

Manchester United have been warned about their transfer activity.

IFAB have approved the use of five substitutes to help player welfare following the suspension of football due to the coronavirus.

Premier League players want three major questions answering before they return to action.

Nothing better illustrates than the EAT-Lancet Commission on Food, Planet, Health, the relentless appetite for state control and removal of personal choice that exists as much in academic circles as political ones. The report's contents are even more indigestible than its title.

IT WAS achieved with almost military precision. A wall was breached and a platoon of trusted lieutenants and foot soldiers was unleashed on the nation, who were to perform brilliantly under continued fire.

IT SIMPLY defies both belief and description. The coronavirus scare is like nothing anyone currently living on this planet has ever encountered - and we all need to get used to a world that will change forever. At the time of writing, both the number of those infected and, tragically, the tally of those who do not survive continue to rise sharply.

IF YOU'VE been fortunate not to have had restless nights or indeed nightmares during these hideous times, then surely the projected cost of the lockdown to the nation's economy must have resulted in troubled sleep?

AROUND 18 months ago I found myself interviewed by two officers from the National Crime Agency in Bridewell police station in Bristol.

Yesterday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson told an international video conference that we face a battle of "humanity against the virus". How right that is - and the battle has started. According to Professor Nicholas Hart, one of the doctors who saved Mr Johnson's life, "COVID-19 is this generation's polio."