Tokyo holds Olympics opening ceremony

The opening ceremony highlighted the isolation endured by athletes battling to train during the pandemic and remembered the millions who have died of coronavirus. Also on the programme: the assassinated president of Haiti is to be buried in the northern city of Cap-Haïtien; and a Chinese leader visits Tibet for the first time in more than thirty years.

(Picture: Torch bearers pass on the Olympic flame in Tokyo Credit: Reuters/Edgar Su)