Notre Dame is gearing up to reopen its doors in December as Paris is on the verge of a remarkable eco-revival.

The International Olympic Committee’s three major Japanese sponsors — Toyota, Panasonic and Bridgestone — are terminating their contracts.

French performer Barbara Butch carried the Paralympic torch on Sunday evening in an act of defiance after being targeted by hate speech over her appearance in the Paris Olympics opening ceremony.

French prosecutors say they are investigating a British man who climbed the Eiffel Tower on the last day of the Paris Olympics.

A test run meant to allow Olympic athletes to familiarize themselves with the marathon swimming course in the Seine River was canceled Tuesday over concerns about water quality in the Paris waterway.

Taking a look back at the best parts of this years opening ceremony!

Days before they’re set to plunge into the Seine River during the Paris Olympics, triathletes are holding out hope that the famous waterway’s bacteria levels would be safe enough for swimming.

Celine Dion made a triumphant return Friday with a very public performance, closing out the Paris Olympics’ opening ceremony from the Eiffel Tower.

A hot-air balloon brought an Olympic ring of fire into a rainy sky and singer Celine Dion belted from the Eiffel Tower as Paris kicked off its first Summer Olympics in a century.

An expert on the ground floor of some of anti-doping’s most broad-reaching advances says it might make sense to stop testing athletes.

Giannis Antetokounmpo is now an Olympian.

The days of “plausibly live” Olympics coverage on NBC are coming to an end.

In advance of the Olympics, we want to make sure you know about this page for all of your Olympic needs in one place.

The IOC has approved 14 athletes from Russia and 11 Belarusians with neutral status to compete at the Paris Olympics in a first list from five sports published Saturday.

French prosecutors say three people have been released from custody pending further investigation after they allegedly placed five coffins at the foot of the Eiffel Tower.

French authorities have handed preliminary terrorism charges to an 18-year-old accused of a plot targeting spectators attending Olympic soccer games.

There’s no making up for what Olympic hurdler Lashinda Demus lost on the day she finished.

Paris garbage collectors have lifted the strike notice that threatened to leave the French capital facing piles of rubbish during the Olympic Games.

Noah Eagle is broadcasting his second Olympics this summer.

American Olympic athletes have a new place to turn to lock down college degrees and other skills for life after sports thanks to a partnership U.S. Olympic leaders unveiled with the Denver-based education company Guild.

The talk before the opening ceremony of the Paris Games ideally should be about its grandiose backdrop: a summer sun setting on the Seine River as athletes drift by in boats and wave to cheering crowds.

France says it has asked 46 countries if they can supply more than 2,000 police officers to help secure the Paris Olympics.

France's public administration minister says the government will offer bonuses to civil servants mobilized to work in Paris during the Olympic and Paralympic Games in a bid to avoid strikes.

A major French union is warning of possible strikes in the public sector, including at hospitals, during the Paris Olympics.

The Eiffel Tower has reopened to visitors after a six-day closure because of striking employees demanding better maintenance of the historic landmark, showing traces of rust, and salary hikes.

Angry farmers are back in Paris on their tractors on the eve of a major agricultural fair in the French capital, in a new protest demanding more government support and simpler regulations.

Striking workers have again closed down the Eiffel Tower.

This will definitely be a unique "French touch" for medal winners this summer.

When they make history at the Paris Games, Olympic medalists will take a bit of France and its history home, too.

The United States is predicted to top the medals tables — both the overall count and gold-medal count — for the 2024 Paris Olympics.

French President Emmanuel Macron says the giant opening ceremony extravaganza that Paris is planning to hold on the River Seine to launch next year’s Olympic Games could be moved if France is hit again in the run-up by extremist attacks.

The bar was already high, but the security challenge ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games only grew with a knife attack last weekend that killed a tourist near the Eiffel Tower.

Prosecutors say a man accused of fatally stabbing a tourist and injuring two other people over the weekend near the Eiffel Tower has been placed under investigation on charges of murder and attempted murder in connection with a terrorist organization.

European Union Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson is warning that Europe faces “a huge risk of terrorist attacks” over the Christmas holiday period.

French investigations into a fatal weekend attack near the Eiffel Tower are looking into the suspect's mental health.

France’s anti-terrorism prosecutor says he has opened an investigation into the fatal stabbing of a German-Filipino tourist near the Eiffel Tower in Paris, allegedly by a man who had been under surveillance for suspected Islamic radicalization.

Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh has been chosen to host the 2030 World Expo following its bid focusing on how to shape a prosperous and sustainable future.

French police have arrested a man climbing on the Eiffel Tower, temporarily stranding a crowd at the top.

The Palace of Versailles was forced to evacuate visitors for the fourth time in less than a week for a security check after a bomb alert.

Paris has one year to go before hosting the Paralympic Games and is faced with a significant challenge: the accessibility of its public transit.

Heavy rains in Paris have led Sunday to cancel a swimming event in the River Seine that was to be a test for next year’s Summer Olympics.

Tourists to France faced a new reality during an eruption of nationwide anger following the police killing of 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk last week.

The second round of ticket sales for next year's Paris Olympics has started.

A proposed French law for the 2024 Paris Olympics that critics contend will open the door for privacy-busting video surveillance technology in Europe has passed an important hurdle.

Paris will start turning off lights on the Eiffel Tower and other iconic monuments to save energy.

The Eiffel Tower has grown by six meters (nearly 20 feet) after engineers hoisted a new communications antenna at the very top of France’s most iconic landmark.

Facing a jump in COVID-19 hospitalizations, France’s government is trying to push through a law requiring vaccination to enter any restaurant and many other public places.

France’s parliament has approved a law requiring special virus passes for all restaurants and mandating vaccinations for all health workers.

Tens of thousands of people across France are protesting new virus measures.

Visitors now need a special COVID pass to ride up the Eiffel Tower or visit French museums or movie theaters.

The Eiffel Tower has greeted tourists for the first time in nearly nine months even as France introduces new virus rules to tame the fast-spreading delta variant.

France is putting itself back on the menu as a destination for international tourists who have had coronavirus jabs.

Crowds have gathered in Paris and other French cities to denounce a ruling by France’s highest court that the killer of Jewish woman was not criminally responsible and therefore could not go on trial.

People walk and ride a bicycle on a snow covered alley near the Eiffel Tower, in Paris, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021. The Eiffel Tower is using a blowtorch to melt ice collecting on its surfaces, and snow is blocking roads, trains and school buses across northern France. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)PARIS – Workers at the Eiffel Tower used a blowtorch to melt the ice collecting on its surfaces and snow was blocking roads and halting trains and school buses Wednesday across northern France. In parts of the Paris region, local authorities halted school buses and urged parents to keep their children at home. Snow blanketed the French capital and froze the Eiffel Tower.

Gwendal Poullennec, head of Le Guide Michelin, poses outside the Eiffel Tower with the 2021 edition Monday, Jan. 18, 2021 in Paris. Michelin will later announce the 2021 winners in a broadcast from the Eiffel Tower. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)PARIS – France's Michelin Guide, which has long served as a bible for foodies, is adapting its awards ceremony in Paris for the year that was like no other - 2020. It is handing out its stars for the shuttered industry at a virtual ceremony to a virtual public. The Michelin guide has 28 issues covering 25 countries, though awards in other countries are handed out at different dates.

(AP Photo/Francois Mori)PARIS – France’s government breathed a sigh of relief Friday after the U.S. indefinitely delayed tariffs on French cosmetics and other goods designed as retaliation for a French tax on technology giants. France says that its tax targets any company with huge revenues, and is aimed at making the tech giants pay taxes in the countries where they do business instead of tax havens. While France has led the charge on tech taxes, several other countries have introduced similar measures that worry the U.S., including Britain, India, Turkey and Brazil. Negotiations on a global tech tax deal at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development stalled after the Trump Administration pulled out last summer. The U.S. Trade Representative decided in 2020 to remove wine from the list of products subject to the tariffs.

2, followed by U.S. Open champion Dominic Thiem and Federer. The 19-year-old Swiatek entered the French Open at No. 54 and became the lowest-ranked female champion at the clay-court Grand Slam tournament since the WTA computer rankings began in 1975. The top three in the women’s rankings remained as they were before the French Open, with Ash Barty at No. Halep did compete at the French Open, but her 6-1, 6-2 loss to Swiatek in the fourth round didn’t affect the three-time major champion’s ranking.

French police officers secure the bridge leading to the Eiffel Tower, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020 in Paris. Paris police have blockaded the area around the Eiffel Tower after a phone-in bomb threat. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)PARIS – Paris police briefly evacuated the Eiffel Tower and blockaded the surrounding area Wednesday after a phone-in bomb threat. All tourists inside the monument were evacuated after an anonymous caller phoned police Wednesday morning and said a bomb had been placed inside the tower, according to an official with the tower’s management company. While the Eiffel Tower is scheduled to be open every day, it occasionally closes because of suicide threats, bomb threats or labor strikes.

(AP Photo/Michel Euler)PARIS – A group of COVID-19 survivors and patients' families is suing French Prime Minister Jean Castex, accusing him of potentially dangerous and contradictory management of the virus crisis even as infections have multiplied in recent weeks. Castex and the government have pushed to reopen the economy and “learn to live with the virus,” refusing to impose new nationwide lockdowns as hospitals in some French regions start to fill up with virus patients again. The patients’ group also asks why the government pushed for mask requirements outdoors over the summer but didn’t require them inside offices until Sep. 1. More than 30,600 people with the virus have died in France, including more than 10,000 in nursing homes. An investigation is already under way into alleged pandemic mismanagement by three other current or former French government ministers, after the country's hospitals were quickly saturated with virus patients in the first wave of the pandemic.

The new rules also limit the size of large public gatherings to no more than 1,000 people, below the national benchmark of 5,000 people. Drinking alcohol in public is also banned in Bordeaux, a center of the French wine industry. The regional government also asked Bordeaux residents to limit private family gatherings, singling out weddings, to a maximum of 10 people. Shows and other events in public halls, in tents and sports arenas are being limited to 1,000 people, who must be seated and kept apart. France’s health agency announced Saturday that the country crossed the threshold of 10,000 new cases nationwide in 24 hours, a record.

Fireworks illuminate the Eiffel Tower in Paris during Bastille Day celebrations late Tuesday, July 14, 2020. Bastille Day marks the July 14, 1789, storming of the Bastille prison by angry Paris crowds that helped spark the French Revolution. (AP Photo/Rafael Yaghobzadeh)PARIS The French tourist industry received a further boost Wednesday with the partial reopening of Disneyland Paris and the opening up of the top floor of the Eiffel Tower. Disneyland Paris, Europes most frequented theme park resort, is partially re-opening to the public, four months after it closed as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Also Wednesday the top floor of Paris Eiffel Tower re-opened.

People stroll at Trocadero square near the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Monday, May 25, 2020, as France gradually lifts its Covid-19 lockdown. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)PARIS Workers are preparing the Eiffel Tower to reopen next week after the coronavirus pandemic led to the iconic Paris landmark's longest closure since World War II. The number of people allowed in will be limited when the Eiffel Tower opens again on June 25. Tourists planning trips to the City of Light are advised to book tickets to see the Eiffel Tower online. Paris tourism officials have expressed muted optimism about the citys reemergence as a travel destination following France's nationwide lockdown that started in March.

FILE - In this Oct.23, 2019 file photo, tourists wait to see Leonardo da Vinci's painting Mona Lisa, at the Louvre museum, in Paris. Iconic sites that are among some of France's biggest tourist draws won't reopen when the country lifts most of its coronavirus restrictions next week. Neither the Louvre Museum, the Eiffel Tower nor the Versailles Palace will be reopening next week when France lifts many of its remaining coronavirus lockdown restrictions. None of France's three most iconic tourist sites will reopen when the country lifts most of its remaining coronavirus lockdown restrictions next week. About 20%-30% of the museums rooms might be closed but of course the Mona Lisa will be open," Sacristin said.

(CNN) - Europe is sweltering in intense heat, suffering through the latest heat wave in a summer that has seen at least 12 countries experience record-breaking temperatures. In June, a heat wave broke temperature records in eight countries, including France, the Czech Republic and Switzerland. A Eurostar train traveling from Belgium to London broke down on Wednesday, trapping passengers in 40 degrees Celsius heat, without air conditioning. Otto said that France took important mitigation measures after a heat wave in 2003 contributed to tens of thousands of premature deaths. These were activated during the June 2019 heat wave and measures including closing schools and setting up helplines reduced the impacts," he said.