Paris Olympics Q&A: From viral mishaps to the...

The United Nations has voted to recognise the transatlantic slave trade as the “gravest crime against humanity”, after a proposal from Ghana. It comes after years of campaigning from African and Caribbean nations, calling for reparations for the largest long-distance forced movem ...  Show more

A 20 year old woman in the US has successfully sued Meta and YouTube over her childhood addiction to social media, winning $6million in damages. Jurors found that Meta, which owns Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp, and Google, owner of YouTube, intentionally built addictive social ...  Show more

A hundred years since Paris last hosted the Olympic Games, the torch is once again making its way through the city, ahead of the opening ceremony on Friday. Andy Murray, the British tennis star and only man to win gold twice in the men’s singles, joins Christiane in Paris.  Also ...  Show more

As one sporting great retires and another adds to her gold medal tally at the Paris Olympics, the Sky News Daily profiles Andy Murray and Simone Biles.  
  
Liz Bates speaks to sports journalist Sue Mott who helped Murray write his autobiography.  
  
She's al ...  Show more

This summer Paris will host the Olympic and Paralympic Games for the first time in a century. Excitement in the city is growing, but so is the list of problems facing organisers. Critics have warned that the river Seine is too polluted for the planned swimming competitions, and s ...  Show more

The opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics is underway, with a flotilla of boats taking the athletes down the River Seine as an accordionist plays Piaf on a bridge. The rain has for now abated, sparing the hundreds of thousands of spectators gathered on the quays and bridges. Mea ...  Show more