It is "frankly not comprehendible" that professional football is continuing in Belarus amid the coronavirus pandemic, says world players' union Fifpro.

It is the only country in Europe where top-level football is being played.

Eight fixtures are scheduled in the Belarusian Premier League this weekend.

"We're appealing for it to be taken with the same cautionary measures that have been taken in the rest of football," Fifpro general secretary Jonas Baer-Hoffmann said.

"It is frankly not comprehendible how this could be going on.

"Why those standards there would be looking so much different from just across the border, I don't think anybody can explain. So everything in common sense tells you that they need to apply the same standards and we will be lobbying to that effect.

"Yes, there are players who are reaching out who are concerned."

Manager Neil Lennon says wage cuts are a possibility at Celtic amid the shutdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

Hearts were the first Scottish Premiership side to ask staff to take a salary reduction of 50%.

Asked if Celtic could follow suit, Lennon said: "Yes. We'll probably have a look at things at the end of April in terms of the club as a whole.

"[Chief executive] Peter [Lawwell] and the board will review it then."

With eight games left to play, Celtic are 13 points clear at the top of the league as they pursue a ninth straight title.

The defending champions are in a strong financial position having posted a profit of £24m for the final six months of last year, which they ended with nearly £33m in the bank.

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Stock markets around the world suffered historic losses in the first three months of the year amid a massive sell-off tied to the coronavirus.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average and London's FTSE 100 saw their biggest quarterly drops since 1987, plunging 23% and 25% respectively.

The S&P 500 lost 20% during the quarter, its worst since 2008.

The drops come as authorities order a halt to most activity in an effort to slow the spread of the virus.

Economists have warned the hit to the global economy is likely to be worse than the financial crisis, with forecasters for IHS Markit, for example, predicting growth will shrink 2.8% this year, compared to a 1.7% drop in 2009.

Virginia McLaurin (born March 12, 1909) is an American community volunteer and supercentenarian. A resident of Washington, D.C., she gained national attention after a visit to the White House on February 18, 2016 to celebrate the annual Black History Month, as a video of her dancing with President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama went viral on social media.

The 2019-20 season in Scottish club rugby "has been classified as null and void" due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Scottish Rugby's decision affects the Premiership and National Leagues and follows similar moves by the Irish, Welsh and Italian unions.

The SRU says "there will be no automatic promotion/relegation".

On 23 December 2010, FC Ufa was formed on the base of FC Bashinformsvyaz-Dynamo Ufa, which then plied their trade in the Russian Professional Football League, the third tier of the Russian football league system. The head coaching position of the team was first assigned to Andrei Kanchelskis, who was tasked with leading the club to the Russian First Division.

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Plenty of jobs going if you want to risk your health - shop workers, NHS, delivery drivers.

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All Champions League and Europa League matches have been suspended "until further notice" by Uefa because of the global coronavirus pandemic.

All national team games in June have also been postponed, including play-off matches for Euro 2020 - already postponed to 2021 - and qualifying matches for the Women's Euro 2021.

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Hard-pressed supermarket workers are being handed thank-you bonuses by bosses.

Marks & Spencer is the latest chain to reward workers with an extra 15% pay.

Aldi, Sainsbury's and Tesco have already promised staff an extra 10%, while Asda will give its staff an extra week's pay in June, which works out as a 25% bonus for the month.

Bosses say they are rewarding "dedication and commitment" and "outstanding work".

A number of TSB customers were left unable to access online banking and mobile app services for both Android and iOS on Wednesday.

Independent website DownDetector, which tracks social-media posts on how sites are performing, showed hundreds of customers complaining of an outage.

Users were met with an "unexpected error" and some said they had been left with no way to access their accounts.

TSB said it was "working to resolve" the issue as soon as possible.

Wimbledon has been cancelled for the first time since World War Two because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The tournament was due to be played between 29 June and 12 July.

Wimbledon is the latest major summer sporting event to be called off, with Euro 2020 and the Tokyo Olympics postponed for 12 months.

It follows the postponement of the French Open, which was due to begin in May but has been rescheduled to 20 September-4 October.

I too live alone and being retired, see myself as a bit of a hermit - but I did not consider how many people I normally chat to when I just take my dog to the local green or go to the supermarket. I thought I'd sail through a period of isolation but it's hitting me harder than I thought, and I find my thoughts wandering to painful things in the past that were never put right - which is pointless. I've decided I have to set myself a challenge, a project to complete, that will give my mind something positive to focus on. We are all social people, perhaps more than we realise.

How about some HYS’s about how brilliantly Wolves or Sheffield Utd have done this season instead of the usual barrel scraping dirge about United, come on journalists try to broaden your horizons

Richard Graham (born 10 May 1960) is an English actor. He played George T. Rowe in the biopic film Titanic.

B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix on Tuesday told people in his province there is "zero chance — none" that orders meant to tackle COVID-19 would be varied by the end of this month.

"I think we're in this for a long time," he said.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday declined to put a specific timeline on how long strict measures could last, saying they would be in place for a number of weeks — and perhaps months.

Andrew Jack, who appeared in Star Wars and acted as a dialect coach on The Lord Of The Rings film trilogy, has died of COVID-19 complications aged 76.

He succumbed to the illness at a hospital near London while his wife Gabrielle Rogers had to remain in quarantine in Australia unable to say goodbye in person.

Social distancing restrictions have left doubt about whether a full funeral is feasible, Jack's representative Jill McCullough told TMZ.