In To Have and to Heist, protagonist Simi Chopra has to mastermind a jewelry heist during a high society wedding to clear her ...

Investigators believe four people carried out the heist, entering the museum during regular hours dressed as maintenance ...

France’s trove of DNA profiles has helped solve high-profile crimes and was used to find some of the Louvre suspects, and it is growing. The police can also access other countries’ databases.

Five new suspects have been arrested in connection with the Louvre heist as the stolen jewels, worth more than $100 million, ...

The Louvre has a long history of thefts and attempted robberies. The most famous came in 1911, when the Mona Lisa vanished from its frame, stolen by Vincenzo Peruggia, a former worker who hid inside ...

The heist at the Louvre highlighted the challenges of protecting highly valued works of art and other prized items, from the ...

The raid on the Louvre is far from the first museum heist. But several factors have combined to make Europe fertile ground for cultural thefts.

Museum heists may seem like a thrilling plot point found in blockbuster action movies—but this weekend proved that such breaches don't just happen on screen. On Sunday morning, merely 30 minutes after ...

PARIS (AP) — Thieves reportedly stole nine pieces from the jewelry collection of Napoleon and the Empress in the Louvre, using a basket lift to reach the museum on Sunday morning. The daring heist at ...

Thieves on Sunday morning reportedly stole nine pieces from the jewellery collection of Napoleon and the Empress, which were displayed at the Apollo Gallery at the celebrated Louvre museum in Paris.

The 1960s and 70s also saw the rise of the art thief as a popular figure in film. Productions such as "Topkapi" (1964), "How to Steal a Million" (1966) and "Gambit" (1966) helped form the image of the ...

Thieves on Sunday morning reportedly stole nine pieces from the jewelry collection of Napoleon and the Empress, which were displayed at Galerie d’Apollon at the celebrated Louvre museum in Paris. Here ...