Immunity tests are seen as crucial to ending the global lockdown, but ministers in Britain and Germany have said they are not yet reliable enough.

DR MARTIN SCURR: Too often in its response to the Covid-19 pandemic the Government has lagged behind other countries.

The team from the University of Oxford simulated how COVID-19 might spread in order to support the development of contact-tracing apps across Europe.

Jigsaw sales have gone through the roof during the coronavirus pandemic. Here Lizzie Enfield remembers a trip to Ravensburg in Germany, which is one of the world's chief producers of jigsaws.

Emre Can has bemoaned former manager Maurizio Sarri's decision to exclude him from the Juventus squad before the midfielder's £21million move to Borussia Dortmund.

A staggering 545 chartered planes entered the UK since lockdown began on March 23, helped by the country's open border policy (file photo).

Heather Scott, left, was speaking after Governor Brad Little, right, extended statewide lockdowns until the end of April. Scott said calling businesses 'non essential' is 'no different than Nazi Germany'

Video footage of a Ferrari LaFerrari tearing along the German Autobahn was posted on social media. The £1.7million sports car hit 231mph racing along an unrestricted section of the motorway.

In the European study researchers from Martin Luther University, Germany, looked at death rates across 66 administrative regions in Italy, Spain, France and Germany.

A survey of five European countries revealed that parents in Spain have the most positive feelings towards vaccination, while their French counterparts have the least.

Boditech Med, based in Chuncheon, South Korea, is now manufacturing thousands of its iChroma COVID-19 antibody kits, which it claims are 96 per cent reliable.

An ancient wooden hunting stick, used by an extinct human sub-species around 300,000 years ago to kill prey, could travel at speeds of nearly 100 feet a second, researchers reveal.

The UK Government made plans to conduct the 'biggest surveys in the world'. But still, less than 4,300 have taken place at Public Health England's lab, despite the goal of 5,000 per day in April.

The Chinese embassy in Berlin responded to Bild's article with an angry letter which accused the paper of 'stirring up nationalism' and prejudice towards China' (pictured, Chinese leader Xi Jinping).

In Berlin (pictured) it will be mandatory to wear face masks on public transport from April 27, with some states also requiring them in shops as the country begins to relax coronavirus restrictions.

Becky Edmunds found 12 diaries on a pile of rubbish in Brighton that uncover the romance story of an Enigma team codebreaker and a German woman torn between her love and her Nazi-loyalist sons.

The 24-year-old German has scored 27 goals in all competitions this season and has fired RB Leipzig into the Champions League quarter-finals and made them Bundesliga title contenders.

A new study has found that using delivery drones in dense urban environments might consume more energy than a conventional delivery van due to wind and other factors.

Everton have emerged as a front-runner in the race to bring Philippe Coutinho back to England, capitalising on strong links between Merseyside and Catalonia forged in recent transfer windows.

Leaked documents in Germany have revealed the plans to equip all the players with masks to be worn throughout the entirety of a match.

Germany's infection rate has slowed to a record low this week, with only a 1.6 per cent growth in cases for each of the last three days (new cases are shown on a graph, with 2,337 added today).

Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced yesterday that some 18,000 staff will be put in place as part of the mass-testing scheme but scientists do not believe that will be enough.

Bayern Munich midfielder Philippe Coutinho underwent minor surgery on his right ankle on Friday and will start his rehabilitation programme in about two weeks, the German champions said.

KIT HOLDEN: With the Olympics and the Euros suspended and no end in sight to the freeze on other football leagues, there will be millions hoping to get some kind of fix from Germany.

Around 75 demonstrators, including ex-servicemen and women, bumped shoulders at the park at Trafalgar Train Station in West Gippsland, Victoria on Saturday, demanding an end to lockdown.

Saturday saw Germany confirm 2,055 new coronavirus cases, bringing to total figure to 152,438, and 179 new deaths, bringing the total fatalities in the country to 5,500 (graph pictured).

A document from the German football federation has mapped out how the game can return safely, how players will train and play matches as well as what happens if someone contracts Covid-19.

Borussia Dortmund star Erling Haaland has rewritten the goalscoring handbook since arriving on the scene with Red Bull Salzburg and has now revealed the secrets behind his success.

Diego Maradona and Argentina managed to reach the final against West Germany at that edition of the tournament but went on to lose the clash 1-0, having two men sent off in the process.

The Juventus striker, 32, garnered heavy criticism for his performance on football's biggest stage as the Argentine missed huge chances as Germany ran out 1-0 winners in the 2014 World Cup final.

The latest figures bring Germany's total number of infections from 154,175 to 155,193, an increase of just 0.7 per cent which is the lowest since the crisis began.

The Bundesliga's plan to return to action on May 9 is facing opposition from a German scientist. Germany's top tier plans to resume next month behind closed doors.

The petition Blanke Bedenken aims to tell Germany's health ministers that their calls over several months for more protective gear weren't heard.

Swiss shoppers were returning to garden centres and hair salons today (pictured here in Villeneuve) as the army prepares to hand out a million masks a day to shops and businesses.

The 47-year-old Colombian-born actress teased Heidi Klum about her accent in a new teaser released Monday for the upcoming season of America's Got Talent.

The German economy is on course to suffer its worst year since 1949 after a collapse in demand for exports caused by the coronavirus pandemic and will not recover until late 2021, researchers say.

Bayern Munich are reportedly confident of signing Celtic attacker Barry Hepburn this summer. As reported by The Sun, the German club are eager to finalise a deal.

Sane has been the Bundesliga side's No 1 target since last summer but a knee ligament injury picked up in August's Community Shield ended any hopes of a transfer.

The decision in France sent shockwaves through football and arrived as a red flag to the Bundesliga, Premier League, Serie A and LaLiga as they all plot to finish the season by UEFA's August deadline.

Laura Nuttall, 30, of Barrowford, Lancashire, told the BBC she made a 'desperate plea' online when her regular flights to Dusseldorf earlier this month 'disappeared' due to lockdown restrictions.

Astronomers from the Max Planck Institute in Germany compared the Sun to 369 similar stars and found it typically fluctuates five times weaker than them.

Italian PM Giuseppe Conte bemoaned the 'rashness' of local politicians who opened up bars and pizzerias at a 'delicate stage' of the coronavirus crisis, four days before the lockdown is due to end.

Just as football fans were getting excited at Europe's major leagues restarting again, the events of recent days have thrown everything into jeopardy. Ligue 1 is cancelled and others could follow suit.

Statistics show the US has seen more than 153,000 people recover from the deadly illness, followed by Germany (123,000) and Spain (112,000).

Greece urged unions to delay their protests by a week, but hundreds of students and workers nonetheless gathered outside the country's parliament in Athens today.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY MATT BARLOW: Rabbi Matondo was among the wave of fearless young British footballers who set out to forge their futures in Germany.

Klopp is on the verge of winning the Premier League title with Liverpool, but it won't be the charismatic German's first domestic league title, having stormed the Bundesliga with Dortmund.

For decades the German branch of the Church has been accused of staying silent over the crimes of the Nazis and even acting to 'bolster' the Third Reich. The Church has avoided admitting any failings.

The 67-year-old King Maha Vajiralongkorn, also known as Rama X, was snapped at the King's Close Bodyguard regiment in Bangkok with his fourth wife Queen Suthida, aged 41.

Germany will have to wait a bit longer for sport to return to the country, as the government has not given approval for a planned racing meeting on Monday in Dortmund.