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.'

Lesley Rowan, 38, from Alexandria in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, said she 'feels like it will bring comfort to people in Paris and all over the world at this sad time.’

Laurent Nuñez, the French junior interior minister, said a group of around 20 firefighters managed to stop the blaze from spreading to the church's belfries.

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

Investigations will focus on potential crimes committed against French victims, in France and abroad, and on French suspects connected to alleged Jeffrey Epstein crimes, Prosecutor said Friday.

The fashion designer, 45, looked simply incredible in the ensemble which featured a racy split yet she gave a nod to the cardinal legs-or-cleavage

The Modern Family star, 47, took to Instagram to post different snaps of herself sightseeing in Paris, France, recently.

The zebra, joined by two horses, had escaped from a zoo in Ormesson-sur-Marne after the gate to its enclosure was left open on Friday evening. The animal ran on the road alongside moving traffic.

Tear gas and baton charges were fired by police in the Parisian suburb of Villeneuve-la-Garenne early this morning.

Laura’s story of her path to glory is one of the most uplifting of the past ten days. But the thing that makes it extra special is the fact that, right from the start, it’s been a fabulous Trott family effort.

The blonde 5ft 4in cyclist from Cheshunt, Hertfordshire is lucky to be alive after she was born a month prematurely suffering from a collapsed lung.

The London 2012 champion said accidents involving cars and cyclists 'aren't always the car's fault'.

Double Olympic champion Laura Trott conceded that there is a 'pressure to fulfil a certain image' but says that she refuses to conform to it.

The double Olympic champion won team pursuit gold at London 2012 alongside Dani King and Joanna Rowsell, but all three will be lining up for England in the individual pursuit in Glasgow.

Team GB and Team USA already have a slew of medals under their belt, but as these adorable photographs show, each and every one of our Olympians had to start somewhere.

Public documents reveal that, in November, with two gold medals already under her belt and nine months before the Olympics, Laura Trott trademarked her own name.

Speaking on ITV's Good Morning Britain today, Emma Trott, the older sister of four-time Olympic gold medallist Laura seemed underwhelmed by her 24-year-old sibling’s achievements.

Over the last two weeks the Olympics have provided moments of brilliance, joy and excitement across 28 sports in Rio. Sportsmail brings you the best 50 images from the games...

Olympic cycling champion Laura Trott swapped her kit for a more glamorous look when she attended an event in Manchester on Saturday.

Real Madrid and Portugal star Cristiano Ronaldo has had his sensational 2016 recognised once again after being nominated for Laureus World Sportsman of the Year.

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.

A security guard at the United Nations in Geneva told said Swiss authorities were searching for 'four guys' believed to be in the area.

The Prime Minister will also demand more extensive sharing of ballistics data and action to take more firearms out of circulation in the Western Balkans.

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?'

A new poll shows that 40 per cent of Americans think terrorism and national security should be the government's top priority, compared with 21 per cent who thought the same back in April.

ISIS (left) has released propaganda videos threatening to invade Rome and Pope Francis is considered a specific target. But the pontiff (pictured right) says he's 'not afraid'.

A raid on Salah Abdeslam's (pictured) hideout, possibly in Molenbeek, Belgium, was not carried out on the night of the attacks because of a law banning night time raids.

Michael O'Connor, 30, from South Shields, who survived the terror attack on the Bataclan theatre in Paris last month, claims he must wait three months to speak to a counsellor on the NHS in Britain.

Brian Levin, who is the director of the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, referred to FBI data in a report published on Friday.

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.

The incident is said to have happened at a police station in Ganshoren, near Molenbeek where officers were searching for suspects following the attacks on November 13 that killed 130 people.

In the 12 months to November, the number of Islamophobic crimes recorded was 818 - 63.9 per cent higher than the 499 crimes recorded in the year to November 2014.

Six more people have been detained over an alleged plot to strike Brussels. Two other men have already been formally charged with terrorism-related offences.

Christine Tudhope (right) was urged by the PM to seek compensation over the Paris attacks but was turned down as the Government hadn't declared them an act of terrorism.

Worried parents (pictured) led their children away from an evacuated primary school in the Forest district of Brussels, where police were hunting a jihadi cell linked the Paris terror attacks.

Salah Abdeslam was shot in the leg by police commandos and has been captured alive in the district of Molenbeek in the Belgian capital.

Europe’s security services feared a terrorist attack since the arrest of Paris failed suicide bomber Salah Abdeslam in the city four days ago as his colleagues feared the net was closing on them.

The explosions come just a day after the Belgium Interior Minister warned of possible revenge attacks after the arrest of Paris massacre suspect Salah Abdeslam in the city last week.

The disturbing discoveries were made as officers searched properties in the district of Shaerbeek, north-east Brussels, where two Paris suspects are believed to have lived in the wake of the attacks.

Police are raiding the neighborhood of the bombmaker thought to be behind November's Paris attacks as experts say he may have designed the explosives that killed at least 34 people.

An American Mormon missionary, Mason Wells, 19, was injured in the Brussels airport terrorist attack after having previously survived the Boston bombing and the Paris attacks.

Najim Laachraoui - now revealed as the second suicide bomber at Brussels Zaventem Airport - is the younger brother Mourad Laachraoui (pictured), who represents Belgium in Taekwondo.

The group unveiled its so-called 'Op Brussels' today in which it vowed to continue 'hacking their websites, shutting down their Twitter accounts and stealing their Bitcoins'

Paris terror suspect Salah Abdeslam claims he 'didn't know' about the Brussels suicide bombings - despite connections to the perpetrators - as he appeared in court in the Belgian capital today.

Belgian authorities have had the names and addresses of nearly 100 suspected Islamic militants weeks before the Paris atrocities. Here we reveal the links of the Molenbeek cell police missed.

A 70-strong SAS team nicknamed Blue Thunder will be ready to deploy across the UK in the event of a terror attack while more than 2,000 armed officers will be deployed in major cities.

Brahim Abdeslam can be seen with a cigarette in his hand dancing with a blonde woman while his brother Salah dances beside him in the video, filmed in a Brussels club.

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.

French national Reda Kriket has been charged with membership of a terror organisation, after police discovered a cache of assault rifles, handguns and explosives at his home in Paris.

Mohamed Abdeslam claims that his brother Salah, who was sensationally captured on 18 March, told him that he 'couldn't go through with it.'