Reflection, refraction, diffraction and scattering are all properties of waves. The particle nature of light in terms of photons is NOT a suitable physical concept in explaining wave properties. The theory of light photons is more applicable in qunatum mechanical situations.
Simply speaking, light is, in fact, electromagentic waves in nature. The travelling of light in a medium (including free space) is due to mutual interaction of electric and magnetic fields. The speed of light, and lots of its properties, are therefore depend very much on the electric and magnetic properties of the medium in which light travels. These electric and magentic properties determine the various wave properties of light.
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This is due to scattering of sun light by fine dust particles (which is called aerosoles) in the air. When light rays incident onto a fine particle, the light ray will be "diverted" to all direction, this process is called scattering. Rayleight discovered that such scattering depends inversely as the 4th power of wavelength.
Blue light, having wavelength shorter than other colour lights, undergoes more scattering than other colour lights. Thus the sky looks blue because of the scattered blue light.
You may refer to the following web-page for more information:
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Hbase/atmos/blusky.html