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Tom McArthur and Gabriela Pomeroy Getty Images French police are desperate to retrieve priceless jewels stolen from the Louvre in a brazen daylight robbery, but experts have warned it may already be too late to save them. In Paris on Sunday, thieves broke into the world’s most-visited museum, stealing eight valued items before escaping on […]

Paul KirbyEurope digital editor and Hugh Schofieldin Paris JULIEN DE ROSA/AFP Nicolas Sarkozy was convicted last month but will have to wait for his appeal behind bars Nicolas Sarkozy will become the first French ex-president to go to jail, as he starts a five-year sentence for conspiring to fund his election campaign with money from […]

CSIRO/Cindy Bessey The new species of porcelain crab was found more than 100m below the ocean’s surface A semi-transparent crab about the size of an almond and a tiny, glowing lantern shark are among two new species discovered by Australian scientists exploring the deep sea. In late 2022, scientists from Australia’s science agency CSIRO embarked […]

Liv McMahonTechnology reporter and Lily JamaliNorth America Technology Correspondent Getty Images Amazon Web Services (AWS) said late Monday that it had resolved a massive outage that knocked some of the world’s largest websites offline for much of the day. More than 1,000 apps and websites – including social media platforms like Snapchat and banks such […]

South Korean police said they will seek an arrest warrant for a woman who set fire to her apartment building while trying to kill a cockroach with an improvised flamethrower, local media reports. One of the woman’s neighbours died after falling to the ground in a failed attempt to escape through a window. The woman, […]

Demolition has begun on part of the East Wing of the White House in preparation for the construction of US President Donald Trump’s new ballroom. Construction crews on Monday tore down massive chunks of a covered entryway and windows in the East Wing, which Trump said is being “fully modernised”. The president previously said that […]

A preliminary report into last month’s funicular crash in Lisbon that killed 16 people including three British nationals has detailed a litany of failings. Portugal’s Air and Rail Accident Investigations Bureau said an underground cable – which acted as a counterweight between two carriages and broke, prompting the crash – was defective and had never […]

Matt Murphy & Joshua CheethamBBC Verify Donald Trump/Truth Social US officials say they have carried out a number of strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea, killing multiple drug traffickers. Announcing the first of these in September, President Donald Trump said his forces had destroyed a vessel that had departed from Venezuela. He said the […]

Victims of sex abuse by members of the Catholic clergy have expressed hope after meeting Pope Leo at the Vatican for the first time. Gemma Hickey, board president of Ending Clergy Abuse (ECA Global), told the BBC it spoke “volumes” he had met them so soon in his papacy. The group is pushing for a […]

Former National Football League (NFL) running back Doug Martin has died aged 36 while in police custody in California. The Oakland Police Department said the former American football star – who played for teams including the Tampa Bay Buccaneers – died after being involved in an alleged home break-in and a struggle with officers on […]