French officials insist the Louvre's security measures were working properly when eight precious crown jewels - worth more than $100 million - were stolen in broad daylight from the world's most ...

PARIS, France -- In a brazen, seven-minute strike, thieves used a basket lift to reach the Louvre on Sunday morning and, as tourists were already inside, forced a window, smashed display cases and ...

It has been dubbed the “heist of the century” – the theft in broad daylight of Napoleonic-era artefacts from the renowned Louvre Museum in Paris. French President Emmanuel Macron called the robbery ...

PARIS—The thieves had prepared a jerry can of gasoline to quickly set fire to the truck-mounted lift and other equipment they had just used to penetrate the Louvre Museum and steal France’s crown ...

A worker at the Louvre tipped off the chainsaw-wielding thieves who boosted $100 million worth of France’s crown jewels, according to French detectives, who now believe the daring heist was an inside ...