A solemn Emmanuel Macron bowed his head over Jacques Chirac's flag-draped coffin today as France paid its last respects to its popular former President. Macron led a military tribute near the site of Napoleon's tomb while a military band played La Marseillaise, before Chirac's coffin was driven through Paris for a memorial service. World leaders past and present including Vladimir Putin, Bill Clinton and Nicolas Sarkozy were among the mourners at the Saint-Sulpice church along with Chirac's daughter Claude and her family. On a national day of mourning, a minute of silence was held in schools and public buildings across France to remember Chirac, who served as President from 1995 to 2007. 🇫🇷 🗿 #RIP

The control room at Chernobyl will open to tourists more than 30 years after the disaster - despite it still having 40,000 times the normal levels of radiation, The Daily Mail reported. Visitors wearing protective suits and masks will be able to look around the Unit 4 control room in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant where the disaster began. Rare and apocalyptic images reveal the decaying room where in 1986 the plant's staff made a series of fatal errors then lost the battle trying to prevent the disaster. ☢️ #facepalm