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 regional government in North Rhine-Westphalia, said there had been a spike in coronavirus cases after 150 of 1,200 employees  tested positive at a slaughterhouse in Coesfeld.

The FBI is investigating how thousands of Democratic National Committee emails were hacked, a breach that Clinton's campaign claims was committed by Russia to benefit Donald Trump.

'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 30-year-old showed off her long legs in tiny denim shorts as she sported a loose white T-shirt and dark sunglasses.

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.

Susan Sarandon is a staunch supporter of defeated candidate Bernie Sanders, and was unable to hide her rage during speeches at the Democratic convention in Philadelphia yesterday.

The mother-of-two was lucky to make it out of the World Trade Center alive, but has spent years trying to recover. She says one of the people who was there for her was Hillary Clinton.

For more than 30 years, he has given speeches on huge political stages. But many critics thought Clinton's address at the Democratic Convention in Philadelphia was long and dull.

The Australian computer programmer and publisher told Britain's ITV that he obtained 'emails related to Hillary Clinton which are pending publication' during an interview on June 12.

Tony Goldwyn - who plays President Fitzgerald Grant in the political thriller - backed Hillary Clinton to tackle 'hard truths about race and justice in America'.

Donna Brazile, 56, looked comfortable in her new role as interim chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, dancing off the stage after her speech.

In his endorsement of her, Barack Obama described Clinton as the most qualified presidential nominee in U.S. history. But two Yale psychologists explain why voters are not so convinced by her.

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.

Many viewers took to Twitter to question whether the 69-year-old is having any health issues Tuesday night, after a similar scare occurred earlier this year during an appearance in Iowa in January.

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

'I was elected as an independent. I’ll stay two years more as an independent,' Bernie Sanders said after losing the race for the Democratic nomination to Hillary Clinton.

Wasserman Schultz, who was forced to resign from her position at the weekend, looked unhappy as she watched the president during his speech in Philadelphia on Wednesday evening.

The U.S. Representative from Ohio walked out on stage in Philadelphia wearing a white gown virtually matching the dress worn by Trump's wife Melania during her speech last week.

Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton told childhood tales in an effort to humanize the Democratic nominee who would soon come onstage at tonight's Democratic National Convention.

The former president showed he could still enjoy the simpler things in life as he batted and kicked balloons that had fallen from the roof of the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia.

Donald Trump Jr. has struck trouble with a claim against Barack Obama that the President plagiarized him when speaking to the Democratic National Convention this week.

Hillary Clinton made history last night standing next to her husband 8,778 days after fresh-faced Bill received the Democratic nomination at the party's 1992 convention in New York.

The 31-year-old pop star's doting actor boyfriend had been spotted videotaping her from the audience during the Democratic convention on Thursday evening.

Ralph Lauren, a close friend of Hillary Clinton, created the Democratic nominee's widely-praised ivory suit, with a member of his press team confirming his involvement over the weekend.

The Bureau has been accused of preventing the DNC from reducing the number of emails and documents released by Wikileaks - prompting the resignation of Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

Hillary Clinton's campaign prepared 71 pages of 'hits' against Bernie Sanders to be used against the Vermont senator in the debates last fall.

An artificial intelligence system which correctly predicted the primaries as well as the last three U.S. presidential elections has forecast a win for Donald Trump.

Former Vice President Joe Biden sealed his status as the Democratic front runner on Tuesday when a new poll showed him leading his nearest rival Bernie Sanders by 24 points. 

O'Rourke, the former Texas congressman who nearly won a U.S. Senate seat last year, has lost support from young voters and minorities, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos national poll.

Surprisingly, nearly 40 per cent of those who took the Drudge Report survey chose House Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, the 38-year-old congresswoman from Hawaii, as the debate's runaway winner.

Ten presidential hopefuls desperate to stand out in a crowded Democratic 2020 field took the stage for the party's first debate Wednesday night - and pundits say the winners and losers were very clear.

Embarrassed debate moderators jumped to a premature commercial break at the beginning of Wednesday night's second hour when NBC left the first hour's moderators with hot mics backstage.

In a memorable moment, Williamson declared that her first act as president would be to call the Prime Minister of New Zealand and declare the United States a better country to raise children.

Any candidate who interrupts too much during the second Democratic primary debate will be punished with a loss of talk time, host CNN vowed as the contenders prepare to launch their political fire.

Democrats debating in Detroit attacked their rivals more than the president, with moderates accusing ultra-liberals of making impossible promises and left-wingers calling for more radical plans.

Self-help guru Marianne Williamson warned at Tuesday's Democratic debate that 'Republicans will win' if the party strays too far left on health care - in a voice compared online to yodeling.

Democrats bickered about race in second debate with Beto O'Rourke vowing to call out Trump's statements and Marianne Williamson defended her pledge to give $500 billion to descendants of slaves.

Self-help author Marianne Williamson and nine other presidential hopefuls fought to stand out over the course of the three-hour showdown on Tuesday night in Detroit, Michigan.

Kirsten Gillibrand said Wednesday night that her first business as president would be to clean the Oval Office after Donald Trump had spent four years in the White House.

The deadline to qualify for the third Democratic primary debates in September is approaching on August 28, and only nine candidates have met the standards to participate so far.

Tulsi Gabbard, who serves in Hawaii's National Guard, is taking two weeks off the campaign trail to participate in a training exercise as her presidential bid struggles to gain momentum. 

Some of Kamala Harris' own aides and supporters have gone nuclear on her sinking presidential campaign as her star power in the Democratic 2020 primary has faded. 

Kelly Mehlenenbacher, the former state operations director on Kamala Harris' presidential campaign who quit to join rival Mike Bloomberg's bid for the White House, left behind a stinging resignation letter.

Hunter Biden's lawyer, who was representing him in his case against baby mama Lunden Roberts, abruptly quit on Monday, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal.