Due to the growing severity of the coronavirus outbreak, many have opted to self-quarantine as a means of preventing the virus' spread.

The Dow soared more than 2,000 points on Tuesday in its strongest one-day performance since 1933 as US lawmakers neared a $2 trillion coronavirus aid deal.

The terrified man dodges repeated thrusts and jumps through window in Leeds. Attackers then turn on a second man who they batter to the ground before they make off themselves in a second car.

The motorist was seen holding his dog on a lead out of the window whilst driving the open-top convertible around residential roads in Blackpool, Lancashire yesterday.

Arnold Schwarzenegger hit the open road on his burgundy motorcycle after biking around empty streets of Santa Monica, amid California's coronavirus shutdown on Friday.

Wednesday will mark the beginning of Norway's whaling season. Ships will target minke whales living along the country's fjord-lined coastline. Demand for whale meat in the country has declined.

The White House is not extending open enrollment under Obamacare, despite President Trump saying it was an option amid the coronavirus outbreak.

Julia Roberts appeared to take Garcetti's advice to heart when she braved the open air on Friday for a CVS shopping trip in Malibu. Roberts had a mask over her face and wore a pair of gloves.

Patrick Schwarzenegger stepped out sans mask and gloves to grab fresh pastries with girlfriend Abby Champion on Sunday morning in Los Angeles.

After the The Open was cancelled for the first time since the Second World War, the ongoing pandemic has also forced the US Open and PGA Championship to take place later this year.

Melanie Griffith stepped outdoors on Saturday afternoon sans any personal protective equipment for a leisurely walk around her Los Angeles neighborhood.

Chris Martin braved the open air on Tuesday sans recommended facial mask, while enjoying a socially distanced bike ride around his Malibu neighborhood.

The American-based PGA Tour has outlined plans to resume a full schedule in mid-June, starting in Texas, in a bewildering decision that appears to go against all the prevailing wisdom.

Darren Criss recently helped provide a much needed distraction for quarantined families across the globe during ABC's The Disney Family Singalong.

A Pennsylvania hospital transported corpses in the open bed of a pickup truck in broad day light, revealing the grim reality hospitals and morgues face across the country.

Luke Wilson was seen toweling down his shirtless torso after working up a sweat during a Los Angeles workout this week. He showed off his toned figure as he stood near his green SUV.

David Charvet has been enjoying a loved up lockdown with his fitness model girlfriend Oksana Rykova, 26.

Reese Witherspoon welcomed the closure of another weekend by venturing out into the open air on Sunday morning.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 358.51 points, or 1.51%, to 24,133.78 as investors cheered news that more countries and U.S. states were looking to ease lockdowns.

Lithuania's capital city Vilnius is turning into a massive outdoor cafe. The city has offered 18 locations where cafes and restaurants can lay extra tables in a bid to keep the businesses alive.

The home - dubbed the 'Ghost House' thanks to its glass build and because it's hidden from view as you approach it - is on sale in the village of Moreton Paddox in Stratford-upon-Avon for £2.5million.

Last week, she helped raise over $3million for Feeding America alongside her Parks And Recreation co-star during their video chat reunion special.

More than 9 miles have been designated as part of the Open Streets initiative designed to 'provide greater social distancing among New Yorkers.'

The brazen moment a PCSO's bike was taken as he tried to disperse the mob in Slough was captured on video. Further footage shows officers flocking to the scene to fine the youths.

Ashton Kutcher braved the open air to pick-up some well deserved takeout for his family at Black Market Liquor Bar in Studio City. Kutcher sported an N95 face mask and black disposable gloves.

The power of an iron fist in a velvet glove was shown to perfection by Newsnight's Emily Maitlis in her interview with Prince Andrew, writes AMANDA PLATELL.

PLATELL'S PEOPLE: Students had cancelled the event because of Ms Rudd's links to the Windrush scandal, in which Britons of Caribbean heritage were wrongly deported.

AMANDA PLATELL: One week ago, Ismail Mohamed Abdulwahab, 13, was at home with his mum, six brothers and sisters, doing what we're all doing, watching TV, isolating at home.

PLATELL'S PEOPLE: What a shining example of selflessness we have been given this week from a woman who is among the most vulnerable to the coronavirus plague.

AMANDA PLATELL: We have always been a nation of curtain twitchers. But, who'd have thought nearly 200,000 people would report their neighbours for breaking lockdown rules?

AMANDA PLATELL: We learned that they have chosen as their LA hideaway, a Tuscan-style mansion amid 14 acres in a gated community in one of the most sought-after areas of Hollywood....

ANDREW PIERCE: As he plods painfully through his six questions, there is an embarrassed silence on the Labour benches. Some Labour MPs say there is a way out.

Four men and two women, will today sit in judgment in an anonymous office in the Whitehall edifice that houses the Treasury on the most contentious set of peerage nominations for a generation.

Despite being repeatedly tipped as a 'prime minister-in-waiting' since entering the House of Commons less than five years ago, Rishi Sunak has always been better known in India than Britain.

ANDREW PIERCE: Sunak's bold measures to tackle the economic devastation threatened by the coronavirus has found him allies in unexpected places.

ANDREW PIERCE: As countries across Europe start to ease themselves out of lockdown, there is a growing recognition in Boris Johnson's Cabinet that it, too, will have to make some hard decisions

DANIEL BENSON - EDITOR-IN-CHIEF FOR CYCLINGNEWS.COM: Last Wednesday Chris Froome and the Team Ineos squad arrived in the outskirts of the French commune of Roanne.

Earlier this week news broke that Dimension Data's team principal, Doug Ryder, ignored the recommendation by performance boss Rolf Aldag to include Cavendish in line-up.

Geraint Thomas survived the first day of racing through the climbs of the 2019 Tour de France but then suggested that team-mate Egan Bernal is favourite for the first summit finish on stage six.

Geraint Thomas took back control of the Tour de France on Thursday, with a surge of power taking him clear of his main rivals on the backbreaking finish to stage six in the Vosges mountains.

Geraint Thomas breathed a sigh of relief at the finish of stage eight of the Tour de France after he survived a team pile-up at the bottom of a fast downhill section on the approach to Saint-Etienne.

Geraint Thomas and Ineos team-mate Egan Bernal profited hugely as French rival Thibaut Pinot was caught in a group who lost 100 seconds on the 217.5km stage from Saint-Flour to Albi.

Geraint Thomas and Team Ineos had every reason to be satisfied as they reached the first rest day of the Tour de France in an enviable position. He is in second place in the general classification.

MATT LAWTON IN BAGNERES-DE-BIGORRE: The race for the big prize might have failed to ignite here on the first day in the Pyrenees but there was no shortage of fireworks

MATT LAWTON IN PAU: The sight of Julian Alaphilippe rising out of his saddle and powering up the steep ramp that came at the end of this individual time trial is sure to trouble Geraint Thomas .

Thibaut Pinot led a French one-two ahead of overall leader Julian Alaphilippe to win the 14th stage of the Tour de France, a 117.5-km mountain trek from Tarbes on Saturday.

MATT LAWTON IN FOIX: There was a second stage win for Simon Yates, a first sign of human weakness from Julian Alaphilippe, not to mention further difficulties for Geraint Thomas on Sunday.

Thomas has blamed a 'minor fuelling issue' on his seventh-placed finish during the Pyrenean stages over the weekend, which saw him twice left behind by his rivals.

The defending champion came off on a right-hander with around 130km of the 177km stage, which started and finished in Nimes, remaining. He was though soon able to rejoin the race.

Forecasters also predicted new temperatures highs in Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, where the mercury is set to reach 104F (40C) for the first time on Thursday.