Good evening and welcome to today's Daily Record's headline briefing.Today's top stories so far include; cars 'petrol bombed' on Airdrie street, all the latest from Nicola Sturgeon's statement as Scotland's Covid cases surge and model found dead in suitcase after calling Putin a 'psychopath'Here are the headlines to keep you up to date with the news from Scotland and beyond.Three cars have been petrol bombed on a residential Scots street with one local describing the incident as "a war zone."Residents told how they heard loud bangs and pops in Newbattle Avenue, Airdrie after thugs set plush motors alight.The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service raced to the scene at around 11.30pm last night to douse the flames at two separate properties.A Range Rover Evoque parked on the street is understood to have been set on fire after a petrol bomb was thrown through the window.Read more.The body of a Russian model who criticised Vladimir Putin has been discovered stashed in a suitcase more than a year after she went missing.Gretta Vedler was murdered one month after she posted on social media calling Putin a “psychopath” and predicting his drive to “enhance the integrity of Russia “ would end in tears.Her “jealous” former partner Dmitry Korovin, 23, has confessed more than one year later to strangling her to death after a row over cash in Moscow, unrelated to her political views and analysis of Putin’s mind and motives.The killer told detectives that he slept in a hotel room for three nights with her corpse which he put in a newly-bought suitcase.Read more.Nicola Sturgeon delivered a Covid update to MSPs in the Scottish Parliament earlier today.The First Minister updated Holyrood on the state of the pandemic in Scotland, including the