Two days after the inferno at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris a billion euros has been donated to repair the church after French President Emmanuel Macron said renovating it was the French 'destiny.'

Salma Hayek's husband, Francois-Henri Pinault, pledged the enormous sum less than 24 hours after the fire devastated the Notre Dame.

The first daughter is in Europe with husband Jared Kushner for Christmas Day. They are expected to join the rest of the Trump family at Mar-a-Lago Thursday.

Despite her astonishing success in the cycling team pursuit yesterday, not everything has gone to plan for Laura Trott.

Newlyweds Jonathan Ball, 27, and Kirsty-Louise Storey, 21, tied the knot on Saturday in a hotel which was also being used by the gold medal winner (centre) for a photo-shoot.

Victoria Pendleton's relationship with coach Scott Gardner sparked such an outrage with her management and teammates that he was forced to resign.

Laura Trott does not need long to think when asked to name a trio of contenders for Sports Personality of the Year. Her vote would go to Bradley Wiggins.

Laura Trott has hit out at the current campaign for a women's Tour de France, though she remains adamant sport's ultimate challenge opened up.

The London 2012 medallist has teamed up with First Choice to launch a holiday cycling scheme aimed at children whose parents are too busy to teach them.

RICHARD MOORE: How quickly they forget. Four years ago Laura Trott, at 18, performed well if not spectacularly at the Delhi Games. Two years later she was double Olympic champion.

MATT LAWTON IN RIO: Trott moved a step closer to reducing the gap between herself and her fiance in the gold-medal count, leading the women's omnium after day one.

Team GB will be targeting another clutch of medals as the Olympic Games enters its 11th day in Rio. Join Sportsmail's LUKE AUGUSTUS for all the action from Brazil as it happens.

In their own frank, entertaining and self-effacing words, JASON KENNY and LAURA TROTT describe how love blossomed, and the haphazard planning leading up to their big day.

MARTHA KELNER: After winning Wimbledon, Olympic gold and becoming world No 1, Murray could make history again by becoming the first person to win the SPOTY trophy three times.

The Scot won his second Wimbledon title, took gold at the Olympic Games in Rio in August and achieved world No 1 status for the first time while also becoming a father.

The trips taken by Salah Abdeslam have been carefully pieced together - revealing how the killer and his accomplices took advantage of Europe's open borders as they plotted the massacre.

Milojko Brzakovic of the Zastava arms factory said the M92 semi-automatic pistol's serial number matched one his company delivered to an American online arms dealer in May 2013.

Paris Hilton was seen wiping away a tear as she visited the Bataclan theatre in the French capital to pay tribute to those who lost their lives in the terror attack almost a month ago.

Hotel heiress Paris Hilton has learned the hard way that even the best intentions can be woefully misconstrued. She made a sombre visit to France's capital this week to pay her respects.

A police chief said putting soldiers on London's streets could help contain future terror attacks. Adrian Leppard said units could cross a wider area in a shorter time frame if changes were made.

Kurt Russell blasted a reporter who suggested it was easy for terrorists to get hold of guns, simply replying: 'What are you gonna do? Outlaw everything?'

The unnamed officer described the horrific sight of 'bodies piled on top of each other' in the Paris concert hall, where 90 rock fans were slaughtered.

The French national of Arab descent was stopped by customs officials when he arrived at Melbourne's Tullamarine Airport two days after Islamic State terrorists targeted Paris, killing 130 people.

Fadima Hadfi, mother of Belgian Bilal Hadfi, 20, who detonated his suicide vest at the Stade de France in the Paris attacks, said she blames herself for not noticing when her son became radicalised.

The French official said the 2015 attacks in Paris 'was nothing', and that terrorists are planning 'simultaneous attacks on the same day in several countries, several places' in Europe in the next year.

CCTV footage shows Salah Abdeslam and his friend Hamza Attou, who later admitted they had spent the morning smoking marijuana, near the Belgian border on November 14.

The Work and Pensions Secretary directly contradicted David Cameron's claims that EU membership made the UK 'safer and stronger' by saying the EU's open borders exposed the UK.

Nick Alexander, from Weeley, Essex, was killed alongside 88 others at the Bataclan during a series of co-ordinated terror attacks in Paris in November. An inquest will be held at 'the end of May'.

In a stirring sign of mass defiance, thousands have posted images that show the boy from Brussels' Manneken Pis statue - who is depicted urinating into a fountain - relieving himself on ISIS jihadists.

France take on Russia in their first game back at the Stade de France since November's terrorist attacks in Paris. Les Bleus were photographed meeting fans in the city on Tuesday morning.

Mohamed Harrak, 26, was asked to testify via video link from a court building in the Majorcan capital Palma where he was taken this morning amid tight security before being remanded in jail.

The French capital has fallen from being Brits' second-favourite Valentine's Day hotspot, to their eighth. It ranks behind Amsterdam, Rome, New York, Barcelona, Prague and Reykjavik.

Ringleaders Abdelhamid Abaaoud and Mohamed Abrini were in Birmingham and London in the months before the November attacks.

Paris terror attack suspect Salah Abdeslam is 'behaving well' and spends most of time reading and sleeping in his prison cell.

James Clapper (pictured), the Director Of National Intelligence, told reporters Monday in Washington, DC that officials continue to see evidence of plotting on the part of ISIS in these countries.

Eagles of Death Metal frontman Jesse Hughes has been branded 'sick' by the manager of the Bataclan concert hall who turned him away when he arrived at the Paris venue on Saturday night.

The poster shows the Eiffel Tower merged with a rifle and urges supporters to carry out lone-wolf attacks on the West, ISIS will 'kill the young' in front of their parents.

The luxury development in Leeds features 150 flats across a six-storey building with students enjoying double beds, en suite bathrooms and flat screen TVs in their rooms and a gym on-site.

Neil Wood abused his position as a manager at the Leeds and York NHS Trust to gets kickbacks from a company controlled by his wife Lisa.

Dr Alan Mackie explains the science behind why ketchup doesn't come out of a bottle to Matt Tebbutt on Channel 4's Food Unwrapped on Friday night - and the best method to get it to pour.

An outbreak was confirmed in Leeds and Liverpool on November 23. Manchester has also been put on high alert to look out for signs the life-threatening condition may have spread there.

A businessman has been awarded slander damages after he was wrongly accused of having threatened to slit a woman's throat at the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Leeds.

Partygoers wearing Santa hats, elf costumes and polar bear jumpers were pictured blowing off steam across the country for Mad Friday.

Naseeb Chuhan, 21, from Leeds, was found hanged after his debts spiraled and his death has led to a coroner being asked to write to the FCA about students being handed dangerous loans.

Revellers were pictured scuffling, urinating and collapsing on the street in cities including Newcastle, Cardiff, Liverpool, Swansea, Manchester and London, on the last Friday before Christmas.

Team GB player Samantha Quek who won gold at the Rio Olympics has slammed student union bosses for banning Leeds University Union's women's hockey team over a 'chav night out'.

Peter Hurst spent 40 years building up a collection of 40 locomotives in his attic in Leeds where he made an intricate railway from scratch. When he died aged 88 this year his sons honoured his passion.

MBE nurse Enid Stevens was taken to A&E in St James's Hospital in Leeds, West Yorkshire, with a spinal fracture. She was wheeled out into a corridor and left there for six days.

Police officer Patrick Hannon, 30, and public sector worker Jake Archer, 25, from Newcastle, say they were discriminated against by Jake's Bar in Leeds.

TV presenter Davina McCall will report live from NHS front lines in Leeds in a new ITV special. She revealed her inspiration was the care her family received during her older sister's cancer diagnosis.