The White House said 'we remember with grateful hearts the tolling of Notre Dame’s bells' in 2001 in 'recognition of the tragic September 11th attacks on American soil. Those bells will sound again.'

Firefighters followed a 230-year-old protocol when battling last night's blaze at Notre Dame in Paris, according to a Twitter user, citing a lecture at Versailles on long term city planning.

Devastating scenes of the historic Notre Dame being ravaged by a huge blaze last night will bring back memories for those who remember the 1984 York Minster fire (the aftermath, pictured).

Experts are today entering the wreckage of the Paris landmark to find which of the precious artworks and religious relics have been saved after Monday night's devastating blaze.

The bells of Westminster Abbey rang out on Tuesday in solidarity with France after the devastating fire that gutted Notre Dame Cathedral, Theresa May said.

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.'

Franck Riester, France’s culture minister, said on Tuesday that the cathedral’s organ “seems to be quite affected” by the blaze while the fate of several other artefacts are unknown.

A GoFundMe called 'Seventh District Baptist Church Fires St Landry' has received just under $480,000 for the three black churches in Louisiana that were burned down.

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.

ROBERT HARDMAN: Notre Dame has, without doubt, been horribly damaged. France, along with much of the world, has been deeply shocked at the near-demise of ‘Our Lady of Paris’.

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.

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 22-year-old tweeted: 'Merry Christmas everyone :) I've had the most amazing couple of days thanks to @JasonKenny107 and the whole family #engaged X'

Cycling’s Revolution Series regularly brings together top-class fields and it will be no different when it rolls into Glasgow and the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome later this month.

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.

Cyclist Laura Trott, 24, has spoken in support of her sister after accusations from the public that Emma Trott was 'jealous' and 'bitter' over her sibling's Olympic win.

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.

The sister of Olympian Laura Trott has stood by her comments that saw her branded 'bitter' and 'jealous' of her sibling's success, insisting the backlash was 'a lot of fuss made over nothing'.

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.

Laura Kenny (formerly Trott) will race in the Revolution Cycling Champions League at the Lee Valley VeloPark in London, formerly the Olympic Velodrome, on December 2 and 3.

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.

EXCLUSIVE: The elite French police officer spoke of his despair after the death of seven-year-old hero dog Diesel in Paris last month, a victim of a dramatic shoot-out with holed up ISIS terrorists.

Investigators have discovered that Abdelhamid Abaaoud had pictures of places in Birmingham stored on his smartphone, raising the chilling possibility that his cell was planning atrocities in Britain

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.

The 34-year-old singer has shared the reason he decided not to cancel his performance in Paris this month, following November's deadly terrorist attacks on the city.

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.

Belgian media have claimed Salah Abdeslam was tracked to a house in Molenbeek on the Sunday night after the attacks, but he had gone by the time police were able to carry out a raid.

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.

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.

Abdelhamid Abaaoud, 28, is believed to have visited London and could have made his way into the UK via Kent using a fake passport, weeks before carrying out the horrific attacks in Paris.

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.

Charaffe al Mouadan, a French Syrian-based ISIS leader with 'direct link' to Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the man behind the Paris attacks was killed in an air strike on Christmas Eve.

Chilling images show Paris attack mastermind Abdelhamid Abaaoud, 28, taking a train back to the city centre from the suburbs where he had slaughtered 20 people on the night of the attacks.

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.

EXCLUSIVE: Every single window at Old Trafford is being covered in clear anti-shatter film to protect players, staff and fans in the event of an explosion in or around the ground.

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.

The U.S. presidential candidate has more than once suggested the laws be changed in France and elsewhere so that victims of such attacks are able to defend themselves.

France's Prime Minister Manuel Valls has warned that more major attacks in Europe are a 'certainty' in a worrying message at the Munich Security Conference.

Michael Rogers, the head of the NSA, said encryption apps - which hide the content of messages from security services - make preventing terror attacks 'much more difficult'.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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'

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.

The only Paris terrorist still at large, Mohamed Abrini, visited Britain and took potential reconnaissance pictures of a football stadium. He made the trip in July, just four months before Paris attacks.