The prime minister had let it be known he's not keen on the "special relationship" label that's routinely trotted out whenever leaders of the UK and US get together. Now, having met US President Joe Biden, Boris Johnson is describing the alliance as "indestructible". He says: "It's a relationship that has endured for a very long time, and has been an important part of peace and prosperity both in Europe and around the world." Mr Johnson tells us talks with Mr Biden - ahead of the G7 summit of rich nations in Cornwall - were "terrific".
One potential area of friction involves the Northern Ireland Protocol - the part of the Brexit deal preventing checks along the Irish border. Mr Biden has previously said new arrangements should not jeopardise the Good Friday Agreement - the 1998 deal to end decades of violence in Northern Ireland. Asked if Mr Biden had expressed concerns, Mr Johnson said: "The president didn't say anything of the kind." The UK and EU remain at loggerheads over the protocol's implementation. And while Mr Johnson says they can "work it out", French President Emmanuel Macron says it's "not serious to want to review in July what we finalised after years of debate... in December".

The UK will donate more than 100m surplus coronavirus vaccine doses to poorer countries in the next year, starting in the coming weeks, says Boris Johnson. Calling it "a massive step towards beating this pandemic for good", he's urging fellow G7 leaders to make similar pledges. US President Joe Biden is promising half a billion Pfizer vaccine doses "no strings attached" to 92 low and middle-income countries and the African Union. While welcoming the move, British Red Cross boss Zoe Abrams says "more needs to be done, and fast", while anti-poverty campaign One is calling on Mr Johnson to share doses immediately.

Thirty seven years after Michael Buerk's landmark BBC report brought the horrors of famine in Ethiopia into living rooms, UN analysis says 350,000 people in the country's north are living in "severe crisis". While the UN stops short of labelling it a famine, its humanitarian chief, Mark Lowcock, says: "There is famine now. This is going to get a lot worse." The effects of seven months of fighting between Nobel Peace Prize-winner Abiy Ahmed's government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front have left people on the verge of starvation. One man in the isolated district of Qafta Humera tells us their crops and livestock have been looted. "Nobody has given us any aid," he says. "Almost everyone is on the verge of death. The situation is perilous."

Front pages feature photographs of Prime Minister Boris Johnson meeting US President Joe Biden ahead of the G7 summit. Their respective wives, Carrie Johnson and Dr Jill Biden, are pictured on the beach with the Johnsons' 13-month-old boy, Wilfred. "Oh baby, what a love-in!" says the Daily Mail, while the Daily Express quotes the PM calling Mr Biden a "breath of fresh air". Other papers focus on anger at Health Secretary Matt Hancock telling MPs there was no national shortage of protective kit during the first weeks of the pandemic. The Daily Star jokes his evidence was "totally believable", while mocking up an image of him as a clown with a Pinocchio-style nose.

Trooping the Colour returns on Saturday. Here are five things you need to know about the traditional ceremony marking the Queen's official birthday. And, with Euro 2020 about to get under way, Newsbeat joins former England forward Peter Crouch for a game of taller or shorter.

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