World share markets rebounded on Tuesday as Turkey's lira pulled out of a recent nosedive and reassuring data from Germany helped offset the latest wobbles in China's giant economy.

Madame Tussauds in Berlin unveiled its latest attraction on Tuesday - a posturing Donald Trump figure striking a picture of German Chancellor Angela Merkel on a punchball.

Two elderly German men proved that you're never too old to rock.
The pair escaped from their nursing home so they could attend the Wacken Open Air festival, the world's largest heavy metal music festival. According to a report from , the pair managed to sneak out of their home undetected, but staff soon found that the pair were missing and contacted police.
They were later found "disoriented and dazed" on the grounds of the music festival at 3 a.m. The nursing home arranged a ride home for the men.
"They obviously liked the metal festival," police spokeswoman Merle Neufeld told German public broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk.
The story of the elderly men who escaped to the Wacken Open Air festival garnered quite a bit of attention, with stories in news outlets across the globe and praise from heavy metal fans for their dedication.

RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin is set to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on Saturday for crunch talks on the contentious Baltic Sea gas pipeline, a German government official has confirmed.

Any agreement Britain reaches with the European Union on its exit from the bloc should be flexible and open to future adjustments, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday, as the risk of a no-deal Brexit increases.

The Latest on Brexit negotiations (all times local): 5:15 p.m. German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she hopes to avoid a disorderly British departure from the European Union but there's a lot of work to be done in the coming months.

Malta has agreed to let 141 people that were rescued by the Aquarius vessel disembark at its port, the Maltese government said on Tuesday, stressing that it had "no legal obligation to do so". It said that from there the migrants will head to France, Germany, Luxembourg, Portugal, and Spain. Italy and Spain previously refused Aquarius disembarkation, as did Malta and Italy in June.

France, Spain, Germany, Portugal and Luxembourg have agreed to take some of the 141 migrants on the Aquarius humanitarian ship, the European Commission said on Tuesday.

World share markets fought to regain their footing on Tuesday, as Turkey's lira pulled out of its recent nosedive and reassuring data from Germany helped offset the latest wobbles in China's giant economy.

GERMANY is plotting to introduce English-speaking courts as they hope to benefit in billions of post-Brexit business, which could leave the UK for the Continent in order to remain inside the European Union’s single market.