During his Africa tour in April, Leo will visit Algeria, Cameroon, Angola, and Equatorial Guinea, a small Central African nation with a population of just 2 million, the majority of whom are Christian.

Real wages in Germany in the first quarter rose by 3.8 percent on the same quarter of last year, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) said Wednesday. It was the strongest year-on-year growth since the time series began in 2008.