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Trump has given condolences to Pope Francis for the 'horrible and destructive' Notre Dame fire

President Donald Trump spoke with Pope Francis on Wednesday to offer condolences for the partially destroyed Notre Dame Cathedral and to wish him a Happy Easter.




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Father and daughter in viral Notre Dame photo come forward

Brooke Windsor, the tourist who took the photo, said the man and his family had contacted her on Twitter to thank her for taking the picture and promised to find a 'special place' for it.




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London 2012 Olympics: Laura Trott became a cyclist thanks to obese mother's bid to lose weight

Glenda Trott took her family to a cycling track because she was desperate to lose weight. She lost seven stone and introduced her daughter to a sport she excelled at.




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London 2012 Olympics: Laura Trott wins cycling gold in the omnium

In one phrase, petite Laura Trott, Essex girl and now double Olympic champion, became the embodiment of British Cycling. ‘Once I got that winning feeling that was it, I really didn’t want to not win,’ she said.




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Olympics 2012: Laura Trott almost died as a baby but has defied the odds to achieve gold, twice!

Just over a year ago, Laura Trott was a promising youngster who thought she would get her chance at an Olympics in 2016. Today the twenty-year-old is the proud owner of TWO Olympic gold medals.




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Laura Trott: Pupil obesity crisis ushers in era of the 54in blazer

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.




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Laura Trott, her new golden boy Jason Kenny and the cyclist she left in her tyre tracks

After finding herself in the spotlight kissing fellow cyclist Jason Kenny, Laura Trott has publicly confirmed the beginnings of a new relationship.




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Dani King, Laura Trott, Beth Tweddle, Gemma Gibbons and Nicola Adams pose as the Spice Girls

With over a third of Team GB's medals brought home by women, this summer really was the season of girl power. And although the Olympics are over, the great girls of the Olympics are still enjoying every second.




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Laura Trott, Nicola Adams and Jade Jones are the new faces of the 'make mine Milk' campaign

From today, the three sport stars can be seen on buses across Great Britain sporting the iconic milk tash, in what will be the final advertising burst for the campaign.




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Laura Trott and Jason Kenny may not think the Commonwealth Games are a big deal but they were the making of Sir Chris Hoy

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.




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Laura Trott refuses to go to war with Great Britain team-mates, despite lining up against them for Commonwealth Games

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.




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Laura Trott wins cycling gold for England in the 25km points race in Glasgow

NICK HARRIS: The Scots think of Irn-Bru as their national soft drink and for a long time it has been marketed under the slogan: ‘Made in Scotland from girders.’ Well, England’s Laura Trott was made in Essex from tungsten.




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Olympic champ Laura Trott shakes off the nerves as she strikes first blow in omnium at Track Cycling World Cup   

London 2012 double Olympic champion Laura Trott set aside her anxiety to win the first of six disciplines in the women's omnium on day two of the Track Cycling World Cup in London.




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Laura Trott strengthens grip on omnium gold at Track Cycling World Cup in London

Olympic champion Laura Trott extended her lead in the women's omnium to remain on course for Great Britain's fourth gold of the Track World Cup in London.




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Olympic cyclists Laura Trott and Jason Kenny announce they will marry

Two years after starring at the London Olympics in 2012, Laura Trott and Jason Kenny have announced they are getting married.




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Laura Trott completes golden double at the European Track Cycling Championships  

Laura Trott won her second gold medal of the European Track Cycling Championships by following up her team pursuit medal with a win in the scratch race.




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CHRIS HOY: 10 Team GB stars to watch at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games

With the Rio Olympic Games just around the corner, Sir Chris Hoy - the most decorated Olympic cyclist of all time - has picked out his top 10 British athletes to watch out for.




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Rio Olympics 2016, DAY 11: Laura Trott and Jason Kenny show themselves as the golden GB couple

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.




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Laura Trott beat the odds to become Britain's greatest female Olympian

When Laura Trott, and her fiancé Jason Kenny, step on the plane back from Rio this week, they'll bring with them a record-breaking five gold medals to their Cheshire home.




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Are the children of high fliers born to be brilliant too?  

The chances of Laura Trott and Jason Kenny's combined genes producing a child who is a potential Olympian are an awful lot higher than the rest of us, however active we think we are.




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The fantastic Rio 2016 performances by Team GB athletes who did Britain proud 

It has been a memorable week for Team GB at the Rio Olympics after they took their golden tally to 24 with 58 medals overall with stellar performances from the likes of Laura Trott and Jason Kenny.




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Team GB's brilliant Olympians prove there's more to life than 15 minutes of reality TV 'fame' 

MARTIN SAMUEL: Towards land they came, the two British sailors on a furious course. The official Olympic event commentators were quite unnerved by this sight.




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Pride of Britain 2016: Olympic hero Laura Trott stuns on the red carpet in silver gown

Cycling champion Laura Trott looked deserving of a fashion medal as she walked the red carpet earlier this evening with her new husband Jason Kenny at the Pride of Britain Awards.




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Laura Trott and Jason Kenny on the disasters that dogged their wedding day

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.




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BBC Sports Personality of the Year shortlist: Andy Murray and Jamie Vardy nominated

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.




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Andy Murray takes SJA Sportsman of the Year award while Laura Kenny also wins gong at annual ceremony

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.




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Laura Kenny's dream of winning three medals at the 2020 Olympics in doubt

Laura Kenny's dream of winning three gold medals at the Tokyo Olympics is in doubt after she was declared only fit enough to race in one event at next week's track cycling World Championships. 




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Laura Kenny crash: Four-time gold medalist left with cut under eye in first event in the omnium

DAVID COVERDALE IN BERLIN: Kenny was left with a bloodied face after crashing in the omnium scratch race at the Track Cycling World Championships on Friday.




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The days of driving across Europe and planning of ISIS terror attacks on Paris 

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.




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Paris Hilton visits the Bataclan Theatre to pay tribute in France

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.




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Paris Hilton rebuked for 'tacky' snap at Bataclan Theatre says SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE

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.




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Homeland producer Alex Gansa speaks out on the real-life ISIS parallels

Screenwriter and producer Alex Gansa has shed light on the source of some of the eerie similarities between the tragic real-life events of recent months, specifically the Paris attacks.




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British survivor of the Paris attacks must wait three months to speak to NHS

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.




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Salah Abdeslam stopped THREE times after the Paris attacks but he was released

Police stopped the most wanted terrorist in Europe three times a few hours after the Paris attacks - but he was let free every time, it emerged today. Salah Abdeslam remains at large after evading police.




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Anti-Islamic hate crimes in the US surge after San Bernardino and Paris attacks

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.




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The miracle woman of the Bataclan: Laura Croix

Laura Croix, 31, was shot several times in the upper chest and abdomen, with one bullet just about missing her heart, while watching Eagles of Death Metal at the Bataclan on November 13.




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Paris attacks' terrorist Bilal Hadfi's mother says she missed warning signs

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.




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Paris terrorist Salah Abdelslam on CCTV near Belgium the day after attacks

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.




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Diesel the police dog who died during Paris terror raid 'shot dead by officer's bullet' 

The Belgian Shepherd was killed as police stormed a flat in Paris, France, on November 18 - three days after ISIS extremists had murdered 130 people in the city.




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60 ISIS jihadis were in Europe ahead of the Paris attacks

The unnamed senior European counterterrorism source also revealed that intelligence agencies are concerned ISIS may attempt a an even more ambitious attack in the coming months.




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Iain Duncan Smith warns staying in the EU makes Paris-style terror attack MORE LIKELY

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.




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Police warns ISIS is planning terror in the UK like the Paris attacks

Scotland Yard Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley, pictured, has said the terror group is 'trying to build bigger attacks' around the world and the UK is one of its number one targets.




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Terrified parents clutch their children as they are evacuated from school after four officers are injured in shootout in Brussels between police and Paris massacre jihadists 

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.




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Relatives and friends carry the coffin of Paris attacker Brahim Abdeslam

Brahim Abdeslam, brother of fellow attacker Salah - who is still on the run - was today buried at a cemetery in the municipality of Schaerbeek in Brussels surrounded by his relatives and friends.




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Brussels attacks suicide bomber’s brother is medal-winning ATHLETE

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.




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Web of terror from Paris to Brussels and how police missed their chances

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.




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UK steps up security in the wake of Brussels and Paris attacks

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.




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Paris attacks brothers filmed in Brussels nightclub months before attacks

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.




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ISIS copying 19th century German tactics to wage war on the West

Invoking the Germany Army's historical strategy of 'Auftragstaktik', the policy helps ISIS carry out attacks abroad when its chain of command is restricted by Western intelligence agencies.




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Dramatic moment Belgian police arrest three Paris attack suspects at gun point as two more are charged with terrorism-related offences over the Brussels bombings

Armed police swooped during a daylight raid in Uccle, Brussels as part of continued investigations into the atrocity, which left 130 people dead and hundreds wounded.