Trump was scheduled to attend the session on climate, biodiversity and oceans, but his chair remained empty while other leaders pledged a modest $20 million to help put out Brazil's jungle fires.

Angela Merkel has given Prime Minister Boris Johnson 30 days to come up with a new Brexit deal - despite the initial praise of a 'constructive and professional' G7 summit meeting.

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has begged Poland for forgiveness on the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War at a service in Weilun, Poland.

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence pledged Sunday that America will not abandon its allies, as he spoke at a WWII memorial in Poland and met in Warsaw with Ukraine's newly-installed president, Volodymyr Zelensky.

Merkel, on a visit to Beijing, met with Chinese premier Li Keqiang and stressed that a peaceful solution is needed following as military trucks parked on the Hong Kong border.

Stefan Jagsch (pictured), of the far right-wing extremist National Democratic Party (NDP), was elected on Thursday for Waldsiedlung after the post remained vacant for weeks.

Mr Cox is understood to have conveyed the threat during a 'heated' exchange with Mr Johnson over the Government's concession that the PM would ask for a delay if no deal is agreed by October 19.

European Council chief Donald Tusk (pictured) raged at Mr Johnson and claimed 'you don't want a deal' after the PM's hopes of a Brexit agreement with Brussels were left hanging by a thread yesterday.

The Brexit campaigners posted the image on social media yesterday following a phone conversation between the German leader and Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

Jacob Rees-Mogg - who was a thorn in the side of Theresa May before joining Mr Johnson's government - said there were 'positive' signs an agreement could be struck with the EU.

Boris Johnson told his senior team there was a 'good way forward' as he updated them on progress in a conference call.

Mahamadou Issoufou has blamed Niger's explosive birth rate on a misreading of Islam which has led people to believe girls as young as 12 can be married instead of continuing education.

HENRY DEEDES: The very people who only recently were insisting no new Brexit deal was available, were now queuing to touch Johnson's cloak as if he was a latter-day prophet.

CRAIG BROWN: As his girth attested, Helmut Kohl liked his food. In fact, he could be called something of a glutton. His favourite dish was Saumagen, which literally means 'sow's stomach'.

Authorities in New Delhi have declared a public health emergency Friday as air pollution in the city hit its worst level this year. It comes as German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits the region.

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier urged the United States to be a 'mutually respectful partner' and reject nationalism as Germany marks 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

President Donald Trump sat down with Turkish President Recep Erdogan at NATO meetings Wednesday shortly before cancelling his own scheduled press conference.

Footage showed her turning around after laying wreaths at a former execution wall at Auschwitz when she appeared to stumble and almost fall backwards.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been crowned Forbes' most powerful woman for the ninth year running, closely followed by ECB head Christine Lagarde and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Ursula von der Leyen was under investigation for doling out millions of euros on consultants for defence contracts. The German defence ministry has been accused of sabotaging investigation attempts.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel was presented with a mirror as she met with Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul on Friday.

Horst Seehofer rebuffed the chancellor's outstretched hand at a summit in Berlin this morning - refusing to make an exception to a self-imposed handshake ban.

MARK ALMOND: Turkey's president announced that his country would no longer enforce the deal struck with the EU in 2016 to prevent millions of refugees from leaving for Western shores.

Angela Merkel urged Germans to heed the stringent confinement measures imposed this week as the number of infections soared over 11,000 today, including 28 deaths.

Angela Merkel went into quarantine just hours after she rolled out tough measures across Germany to stop the spread of coronavirus.

Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Braunschweig is carrying out blood tests in order to identify antibodies associated with Covid-19 (pictured, medics treat a patient in Hamburg).

Angela Merkel's government wants to test all suspected cases in Germany and the entire circle of people who have come into contact with a confirmed patient.

Movie lovers in their hundreds turned up at a drive-in cinema in Essen, west Germany, to enjoy a film from their car - while all other movie theatres in the country are closed.

Chancellor Angela Merkel's government has ordered people not leave their homes unless they have an exceptional reason. A distance of at least five feet must be kept from others at all times.

The league's chief Christian Seifert did suggest last week that the current plan is for games to return to all 36 grounds in the top two divisions by the start of May.

Clubs in the German top flight have returned to training in the hope that the rest of the season can be finished off - providing Chancellor Angela Merkel gives the green light for action to resume.

A restart of the Bundesliga could be pushed back a week to May 16 as clubs nervously wait for Chancellor Angela Merkel's verdict. 

European leaders are pushing ahead with plans to ease lockdowns and restart their battered economies amid fears of a second wave of coronavirus cases and deaths.

Germany has eased some lockdown measures but is seeing a rise in the number of Covid-19 cases, with infections rising for the fifth day in a row. Pictured: Graph of Covid-19 cases in Germany.

Germany 's number of coronavirus cases has dropped following five days of rising infections after the government eased the country's lockdown measures earlier this week.

Social distancing was the first lesson on the timetable in Dortmund this morning where pupils lined up at 5ft intervals in the playground.

The German head of state, accompanied by Chancellor Angela Merkel, stuck to social distancing guidelines at they laid down their wreaths yesterday at the Neue Wache Memorial in Berlin.

The Premier League are watching closely as they try to push ahead with Project Restart, which would see the campaign come back on June 12.

A Las Vegas newspaper has unearthed documents relating to a speaking engagement Hillary Clinton will undertake at a University of Nevada Las Vegas Foundation fundraiser.

Hillary Clinton pushed back on the idea Republicans have been floating since Justice Scalia's death – that the winner of the election should decide his successor.

'Right now I'm not worried about the Russians. The biggest threat to America I see right now is Donald Trump's candidacy and what that will do to our country,' Corey Booker morning on Today.

'Together, my friends, we have begun a political revolution to transform America and that revolution – our revolution – continues,' Sanders said.

Some of Sen. Bernie Sanders' progressive supporters want to pull Sen. Tim Kaine from the vice presidential slot and insert someone to the left of him instead.

The former vice president, who refused to back Clinton during the recent Democratic primary, announced today he will vote for Clinton in the November race against Donald Trump.

The First Lady used her rousing words on the first night of the party's convention in Philadelphia to back Hillary Clinton and attack Donald Trump.

Bernie Sanders' speech in Philadelphia was too much to take for his most ardent fans, who were seen weeping as he praised them for joining him on his 'political revolution'.

The collectible critters have been placed inside the secure zone of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Outside it souvenir sellers are cashing in on Sanders.

The 67-year-old Oscar winner let out an ecstatic scream as she took the stage in Philadelphia wearing a red, white, and blue frock by French designer Catherine Malandrino.

Sarah Silverman's Twitter account was hacked on Wednesday after declaring in her speech at the Democratic National Convention that she would support Hillary Clinton for president.

Since his first appearance as a presidential candidate in 2008, Obama's looks have changed dramatically - and he isn't embarrassed to admit it.