PARIS (AP) — It was shortly after the stunning heist of the crown jewels at the Louvre when Paris-based Associated Press photographer Thibault Camus caught in his frame a dapperly dressed young man walking by uniformed French police officers, their car blocking one of the museum gates. Instinctively, he took the shot.

Does a photo show a well-dressed French detective working the case of the Crown Jewels stolen from the Louvre? No, that's not true: The original poster later said it was a "fantasy version" she did not regret posting.

The Paris Louvre reopens on Wednesday after the daring theft from the most visited museum in the world. Its director Laurence des Cars is facing questions from a parliamentary culture committee scrutinising security failures.

Ariel Weil, mayor of central Paris, says it's obvious to him that the Louvre museum’s security system did in fact fail during Sunday's crown jewel heist. But that’s contrary to what the French culture minister,

The Louvre museum was hit by a brazen daytime jewel heist, forcing the Paris institution to close its doors for a second day in a row.

The Louvre reopened on Wednesday to long lines beneath its landmark Paris glass pyramid, just three days after one of the highest-profile museum thefts of the century stunned the world for its audacity and scale.

A “pre-preview” of Art Basel Paris this week drew some of the world’s wealthiest art collectors. Dealers were hoping to shed some of the recent gloom that the art market has faced.

Pritzker-prize winning architect Jean Nouvel has radically transformed the interior of a stately 19th-century building.

While priceless Napoleonic jewels were stolen from the Louvre, the legendary Regent diamond, with its origins in Andhra Pradesh's Krishna district, wa

George Clooney weighed in on the real-life heist at Paris' Louvre museum while speaking with reporters at the Los Angeles premiere of 'Jay Kelly.' "I mean, they seem to have done a pretty good job of getting away with it,