The Louvre museum in Paris has announced it is closing one of its galleries because of structural weaknesses.
The Campana Gallery - consisting of nine rooms which host Greek ceramics - will remain shut as engineers investigate "certain beams supporting the floors", the Louvre said.
The announcement adds to the museum's unwelcome attention following a high-profile heist last month in which jewels worth €88m (£76m; $102m) were taken.
Criticism has focused on lax security at the world's most-visited museum in the French capital.
Four people have been arrested over the heist, but the jewels have not been recovered.
In a statement on Monday, the Louvre said that structural issues in offices on the second floor - above the Campana Gallery in the Sully wing of the museum - had led to its decision.
"During these investigations, the Campana Gallery... will be closed to the public as a precautionary measure," it said.
Three weeks after the jewel theft, a report was released in which the Court of Auditors criticised managers who had preferred to invest in new artworks and exhibitions rather than basic upkeep and protection of the museum.
Basing its findings on the years 2018-24, the report found the museum had spent €105.4m (£92.7m) on buying new artworks and €63.5m on exhibition spaces.
But at the same time it spent only €26.7m on maintenance works, and €59.5m on restoration of the palace building.
Watch: Two people leave Louvre in lift mounted to vehicle
On the day of the heist, the suspects arrived at 09:30 (07:30 GMT), just after the museum opened to visitors.
The suspects arrived with a stolen vehicle-mounted mechanical lift to gain access to the Galerie d'Apollon (Gallery of Apollo) via a balcony close to the River Seine. The men used a disc cutter to crack open display cases housing the jewellery.
Prosecutors said the thieves were inside for four minutes and made their escape on two scooters waiting outside at 09:38, before switching to cars.
One of the stolen items - a crown - was dropped during the escape. The other seven jewels have not been found.
The fear is that they have already been spirited abroad, though the prosecutor in charge of the case has said she is still hopeful they can be retrieved intact.
Those arrested over the heist that shocked France were all petty criminals rather than organised crime professionals, Paris's prosecutor has said.
Since the incident, security measures have been tightened around France's cultural institutions.
The Louvre has even transferred some of its most precious jewels to the Bank of France.
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The Marie-Louise necklace and a pair of earrings were among the eight items stolen
A tiara worn by the Empress Eugenie, wife of Napoleon III, was taken
Second-hand clothing platform Vinted is under investigation in France after some user accounts were found to be directing visitors topornographic content.
France's Children's Rights Commissioner Sarah El-Haïry said she had asked watchdog Arcom to examine the allegations first reportedin French media.
Vinted, which has 23 million users in France, has no age-verification procedure - meaning children and teenagers could have been exposed to pornographic material without having to show proof they were over 18.
In a statement, the Lithuania-based company said it had a "zero-tolerance policy regarding unsolicited communications of a sexual nature or the promotion of sexual services".
"All inappropriate and illegal content is removed, and where necessary we take measures against users, including blocking them definitively from our site," it said.
Vinted is taking the situation "very seriously", it added.
Reports first surfaced after some sellers showing photographs of swimwear or lingerie were found to be luring viewers to their personal pages on adult platforms such as OnlyFans.
"Predators have been using the sale of ordinary items of clothing to direct people to porn sites," El-Haïry said.
France has recently issued warnings to other global e-commerce platforms, including Shein - headquartered in Singapore - after products including childlike sex dolls appeared in their marketing listings.
French officials say the case against Shein forms part of a wider investigation into other major e-commerce platforms accused of allowing illicit products to be sold online.
Paris prosecutors are examining whether Shein, AliExpress, Temu and Wish breached laws relating to violent, pornographic or "undignified" content accessible to minors.
Shein and AliExpress are also being investigated specifically over the alleged dissemination of child-related pornographic material. The cases have been referred to the Paris Office des Mineurs, which handles offences involving the protection of children.
Shein has already banned the sale of all sex dolls on its platform worldwide and says it is permanently blocking seller accounts linked to the items.
The French consumer watchdog, the Directorate General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control, said descriptions of the dolls left "little doubt as to their child-pornography nature".
For President Trump, who served fast food sandwiches to the Clemson University football team during its 2019 visit to the White House, few meals hit closer to home than hamburgers.
Investigators work at the site of the fatal shooting of María Florinda Ríos Pérez de Velásquez, a house cleaner who went to the wrong address in Whitestown, Ind.
Rumi, Zoey and Mira are Huntr/x - the K-pop trio who also try and save the world from demons
A school has banned the singing of songs from hit Netflix film KPop Demon Hunters over concerns they are not in keeping with its "Christian ethos".
Lilliput Church of England Infant School in Poole, Dorset, sent a message to parents on Friday saying some members of the community are "deeply uncomfortable" with references to demons.
It said this was because they "associate them with spiritual forces opposed to God and goodness".
In an update on Monday, acting head teacher Lloyd Allington said he had since received feedback from parents, highlighting positive messages from the songs, but said the school was seeking to support those who found the themes "challenging".
KPop Demon Hunters became Netflix's most viewed film ever in August and follows the adventures of fictional K-pop girl band Huntr/x as its three members use their music and fighting skills to protect humans from demons.
It also features a rival group made up of five demons called the Saja Boys, whose song lyrics cover themes including temptation and seduction.
In the initial message sent to parents, the school asked them to encourage their children "not to sing these songs at school out of respect for those who find the themes at odds with their faith".
But one parent told the BBC: "I thought it was ridiculous. My daughter is very into K-pop and her and all of her little friends love it."
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The school's head teacher told parents references to demons can feel "deeply uncomfortable" to Christians
He said they did performances at after-school clubs.
"It's just a harmless, a nice little thing for them to do to get their confidence up," he said.
He describes himself as an atheist and said it felt like "a bit of an imposition and probably a bit unfair and silly".
He said nothing like this had happened before and praised the school in general, but felt it had been put under pressure to make the change.
In Monday's update, acting head Mr Allington said the school had received feedback from parents who said songs - such as 10-week UK number one single Golden - had helped their children learn about teamwork, courage and kindness.
He continued: "While we fully respect your right to make choices about the content your child engages with at home, we also want to be mindful of the diversity of beliefs within our school community.
"For some Christians, references to demons can feel deeply uncomfortable because they associate them with spiritual forces opposed to God and goodness."
He added: "We are not asking parents to tell their children that there is anything wrong with enjoying the film or its songs if it aligns with your own views and beliefs...
"Our role will simply be to help children understand that some of their peers may hold different views and to explore how we can respect and support those peers in upholding their faith."
Joseph O'Connor was arrested in Spain in 2021 and extradited to the US in April
A British man who hacked high profile Twitter - now known as X - accounts as part of a Bitcoin scam has been ordered to hand over £4.1m in stolen cryptocurrency.
Joseph O'Connor, from Liverpool, hijacked more than 130 accounts in July 2020, including those of Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Elon Musk.
The 26-year-old fled to Spain where his mother lives before being arrested and extradited to the US for trial.
He was sentenced to five years for cyber crimes and was released in 2025, but now must hand over a haul of crypto he gathered through various hacks and scams.
O'Connor, who went by the alias PlugwalkJoe, carried out the so-called "giveaway scam" with other young men and teenagers - breaking into Twitter's internal systems and taking over high profile accounts.
Three other hackers have been charged over the scam, with US teenager Graham Clark pleading guilty to his part in the deception in 2021.
The hackers gained access to the accounts by first convincing a small number of Twitter employees to hand over their internal login details - which eventually granted them access to the social media site's administrative tools.
They used social engineering tricks to get access to the powerful internal control panel at the site.
Once inside the Twitter accounts of famous individuals, they pretended to be the celebrities and tweeted asking followers to send Bitcoin to various digital wallets promising to double their money.
As a result of the fraud, an estimated 350 million Twitter users viewed suspicious tweets from official accounts of some of the platform's biggest users, including Apple, Uber, Kanye West and Bill Gates.
Thousands were duped into believing that a crypto giveaway was real.
Between 15 and 16 July 2020, 426 transfers were made to the scammers of various amounts from people hoping to double their money.
A total of over 12.86 BTC was stolen which at the time was worth around $110,000 (£83,500). It is now worth $1.2m.
The UK's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said investigators believed more crypto linked to O'Connor was obtained through criminal hacks he carried out with other teenagers and young people he met whilst playing Call of Duty online.
The CPS has recovered 42 Bitcoin and other digital currency in total from him.
Adrian Foster, Chief Crown Prosecutor for the CPS Proceeds of Crime Division, said O'Connor "targeted well known individuals and used their accounts to scam people out of their crypto assets and money".
"Even when someone is not convicted in the UK, we are still able to ensure they do not benefit from their criminality," he said.
The department was deployed, in effect, as an arm of the president’s rapid-response operation to help him muscle through a damaging news cycle over Jeffrey Epstein, former and current officials said.
Attorney General Pam Bondi’s quick response to President Trump’s demand of an investigation into Democrats amounted to an about-face from when she formally declared that nothing in the Epstein files warranted further investigation.
The magistrate judge raised the question of whether “government misconduct” in the case might require dismissing the charges against the former F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, altogether.
Lindsey Halligan, who had never worked on a criminal case until she was thrust into the Comey prosecution, has faced extensive scrutiny from the moment she took over the U.S. attorney’s office in the Eastern District of Virginia.
As South Asian and Muslim immigrants transform a small New Jersey town, the five-term mayor has managed to keep the peace. What happens when he’s gone?
Michael Gonnelli, the mayor of Secaucus, has run unopposed in four of the five elections he has won.
Mr. Adams, whose tenure as mayor of New York City ends in six weeks, is using his second trip to Israel in three years to reinforce his staunch support of the country.
Mayor Eric Adams has used his trip to Israel to criticize Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, suggesting that Jewish New Yorkers would be in danger under his leadership.
Ms Hasina oversaw a transformation in Bangladesh's economy but critics say she crushed dissent
Bangladesh's longest-serving prime minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed began her political career as a pro-democracy icon, but fled mass protests against her rule in August 2024 after 15 years in power.
Since then, Hasina has been in self-imposed exile in India, where she flew after being deposed by the student-led uprising which spiralled into nationwide unrest.
On 17 November, a special tribunal in Dhaka sentenced her to death after convicting her of crimes against humanity. It was found Hasina had ordered a deadly crackdown on protesters between 15 July and 5 August 2024. She denied all charges against her.
It was the worst bloodshed the country had seen since independence in 1971.
The protests brought an unexpected end to the reign of Hasina, who had ruled Bangladesh for more than 20 years.
She and her Awami League party were credited with overseeing the South Asian country's economic progress. But in recent years she was accused of turning autocratic and clamping down on any opposition to her rule.
Politically-motivated arrests, disappearances, extra-judicial killings and other abuses all rose under her rule.
An order to 'use lethal weapons'
In January 2024, Hasina won an unprecedented fourth term as prime minister in an election widely decried by critics as being a sham and boycotted by the main opposition.
Protests began later that year with a demand to abolish quotas in civil service jobs. By summer they had morphed into a wider anti-government movement as she used the police to violently crack down on protesters.
Amid increasing calls for her to resign, Hasina remained defiant and condemned the agitators as “terrorists”. She also threw hundreds of people into jail and brought criminal charges against hundreds more.
A leaked audio clip suggested she had ordered security forces to "use lethal weapons" against protesters. She denies ever issuing an order to fire on unarmed civilians.
Some of the bloodiest scenes occurred on 5 August, the day Hasina fled by helicopter before crowds stormed her residence in Dhaka. Police killed at least 52 people that day in a busy neighbourhood, making it one of the worst cases of police violence in the country's history.
Hasina, who has been tried in absentia, called the tribunal a "farce".
"It is a kangaroo court controlled by my political opponents to deliver a pre-ordained guilty verdict... and to distract the world's attention from the chaos, violence and misrule of [the new] government," she told the BBC in the week before her verdict.
She called for the ban on her party to be lifted before elections due in February.
Hasina is also charged with crimes against humanity relating to forced disappearances during the Awami League's rule in another case at the same tribunal in Bangladesh. Hasina and the Awami League deny all the charges.
Hasina and other senior members of her former government are also facing trial for corruption in a separate court - charges they deny.
How did Sheikh Hasina come to power?
Born to a Muslim family in East Bengal in 1947, Hasina had politics in her blood.
Her father was the nationalist leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh's "Father of the Nation" who led the country's independence from Pakistan in 1971 and became its first president.
At that time, Hasina had already established a reputation as a student leader at Dhaka University.
Her father was assassinated with most of his family members in a military coup in 1975. Only Hasina and her younger sister survived as they were travelling abroad at the time.
After living in exile in India, Hasina returned to Bangladesh in 1981 and became the leader of the Awami League, the political party her father belonged to.
She joined hands with other political parties to hold pro-democracy street protests during the military rule of General Hussain Muhammed Ershad. Propelled by the popular uprising, Hasina quickly became a national icon.
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Propelled by the pro-democracy movement in the 1980s and early 1990s, Hasina became a national icon
She was first elected to power in 1996. She earned credit for signing a water-sharing deal with India and a peace deal with tribal insurgents in the south-east of the country.
But at the same time, her government was criticised for numerous allegedly corrupt business deals and for being too subservient to India.
She later lost to her former ally-turned-nemesis, Begum Khaleda Zia of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, in 2001.
As heirs to political dynasties, both women have dominated Bangladesh politics for more than three decades and used to be known as the "battling begums". Begum refers to a Muslim woman of high rank.
Observers say their bitter rivalry resulted in bus bombs, disappearances and extrajudicial killings becoming regular occurrences.
Hasina eventually came back to power in 2009 in polls held under a caretaker government.
A true political survivor, she endured numerous arrests while in opposition as well as several assassination attempts, including one in 2004 that damaged her hearing. She has also survived efforts to force her into exile and numerous court cases in which she has been accused of corruption.
Achievements and controversies
Once one of the world's poorest nations, Bangladesh achieved credible economic success under her leadership from 2009.
Its per capita income tripled in the last decade and the World Bank estimates that more than 25 million people have been lifted out of poverty in the last 20 years.
Much of this growth has been fuelled by the garment industry, which accounts for the vast majority of total exports from Bangladesh and has expanded rapidly in recent decades, supplying markets in Europe, North America and Asia.
Using the country's own funds, loans and development assistance, Hasina's government also undertook huge infrastructure projects, including the flagship $2.9bn Padma bridge across the Ganges.
But Hasina has long been accused of enacting repressive authoritarian measures against her political opponents, detractors and the media - a remarkable turnaround for a leader who once fought for multi-party democracy.
Rights groups estimate there have been at least 700 cases of enforced disappearances, with hundreds more subject to extra-judicial killings, since Hasina took power again in 2009. Hasina denies involvement in these.
Bangladesh's security forces have also been accused of serious abuses. In 2021, the US sanctioned its Rapid Action Battalion - a notorious police unit accused of carrying out numerous extra-judicial killings - citing human rights violations.
Human rights activists and journalists also faced increasing attacks including arrests, surveillance and harassment.
Hasina's government was also accused of "judicially harassing" targets with court cases, including Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus - who became head of the interim government after Hasina fled. He had been jailed earlier in 2024 and faced more than 100 charges, in cases his supporters say were politically motivated.
Hasina's government flatly denied claims of such abuses,while also restricting visits when it was in power by foreign journalists seeking to investigate the allegations.
The protests against civil service quotas, which sparked last year's uprising,came as Bangladesh struggled with the escalating costs of living in the wake of the pandemic. Inflation skyrocketed, the country's foreign exchange reserves dropped precipitously, and its foreign debt doubled since 2016.
Critics blamed this on mismanagement by Hasina's government, claiming that Bangladesh's economic progress only helped those close to her.
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Bangladeshis wave the national flag on 5 August, 2025 as they celebrate one year since Sheikh Hasina was ousted from power
Matthew Gruter, seen among black-clad men at the protest, moved to Australia with his wife in 2022
A South African man who was seen attending neo-Nazi rally outside an Australian state parliament has had his visa revoked.
Matthew Gruter, who has been Australia since 2022, took part in an anti-Jewish protest outside the New South Wales parliament organised by the National Socialist Network earlier this month.
He was seen in the front row of around 60 men clad in black, who held up a banner that said "Abolish the Jewish lobby", Australian media reports.
Australia has seen a recent rise in right-wing extremism. Its government made the Nazi salute punishable by a mandatory prison term earlier this year.
Australia's Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke confirmed the cancellation of Mr Gruter's visa, saying: "If you are on a visa, you are a guest.
"If you're a citizen, you're a full member of the Australian family. Like with any household, if a guest turns up to show hatred and wreck the household, they can be told it's time to go home."
Mr Gruter moved to Australia with his wife and works as a civil engineer, according to ABC News.
The National Socialist Network, which organised the rally on 8 November, is a well-known neo-Nazi group in Australia. Mr Gruter is a senior member of the group in New South Wales, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.
Protesters repeatedly chanted "blood and honour", a slogan associated with the Hitler Youth, according to ABC News.
It last less than 20 minutes and was legally authorised, the Guardian reports.
This is the first major mass school abduction in Nigeria for more than a year
Armed men have killed a teacher and abducted at least 25 students in an attack on a girls' secondary school in north-western Nigeria, police say.
The gang invaded the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School in Maga, Kebbi State, at around 04:00 local time (0300 GMT) on Monday, they said.
The attackers "engaged police personnel on duty in a gun duel" before scaling the perimeter fence and seizing the students from their hostel, a statement said.
One member of staff was killed while trying to protect the students. A second sustained gunshot wounds and is now receiving treatment.
Eyewitnesses described a large group of attackers, known locally as bandits, who arrived firing sporadically to cause panic.
Residents told the BBC that the gunmen subsequently marched a number of girls into nearby bushland.
The police said they had deployed "additional police tactical units, alongside military personnel and vigilante groups" to the area.
A coordinated search and rescue operation is underway in surrounding forests and suspected escape routes.
Over the past decade, schools in northern Nigeria have become frequent targets for armed groups, who often carry out abductions to seek ransom payments or leverage deals with the government.
However, this is the first major school abduction since March 2024, when more than 200 pupils were seized from a school in Kuriga, Kaduna state.
The attack in Kebbi State highlights the persistent security crisis plaguing the region, leaving families in Maga in a state of fearful exhaustion as they wait and hope for their daughters' safe return.
Months before the election, Etel Haxhiaj, a councilwoman in Worcester, Mass., was charged with assaulting an officer when she stood between the police and an immigrant family.
President Donald Trump is set to issue a retributive endorsement as early as Monday against one of a handful Indiana Senate Republicans who opposes the White House’s mid-cycle redistricting plan.
Among the holdouts targeted by the White House: Republican state Sen. Jim Buck of Kokomo, who is facing a primary from Tipton County Commissioner Tracey Powell. Trump could back Powell Monday, according to a person familiar with his thinking speaking exclusively with POLITICO, following through on MAGA’s and White House allies' long-running threats to primary opponents of their mid-decade redistricting effort intended to protect their slim House majority in the midterms next year.
Trump posted on Truth Social Monday morning that he “will be strongly endorsing against any State Senator or House member from the Great State of Indiana that votes against the Republican Party, and our Nation, by not allowing for Redistricting for Congressional seats in the United States House of Representatives as every other State in our Nation is doing, Republican or Democrat.”
A spokesperson for Buck did not respond to a request for comment.
Trump’s post came after GOP Senate President Pro Tempore Rodric Bray announced on Friday that the chamber will not convene in December to redraw maps, drawing Trump’s ire to and a threat to withdraw his support for Bray, State Sen. Greg Goode and Gov. Mike Braun. Goode was the victim of a swatting incidentover the weekend.
Bray said his decision was influenced by the lack of votes supporting the measure, but Trump on Sunday argued that meant Braun was not doing enough to secure GOP support.
“Considering that Mike wouldn’t be Governor without me (Not even close!), is disappointing!” Trump said in a post to Truth Social. “Any Republican that votes against this important redistricting, potentially having an impact on America itself, should be PRIMARIED.”
Renée Zellweger has called a new statue of Bridget Jones "adorable," adding: "I think she's much cuter than me."
The actress was speaking to BBC News as a new statue celebrating the character she played for more than 20 years was unveiled in London's Leicester Square on Monday.
Bridget Jones was created in 1996 by the author Helen Fielding, and first adapted for the big screen in 2001. The fourth film came out earlier this year.
Speaking at the unveiling, Fielding refused to rule out taking her story further, saying you should "never say never".
Zellweger added that everyone can relate to Bridget, which explains her huge appeal.
"[It's her] vulnerability, her humanness," she said. "We recognise ourselves in her, we recognise ourselves in her struggles.
"It makes it OK for the rest of us to be authentically who we are. Imperfect."
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The character of Bridget Jones went straight to many women's hearts, who took comfort in her trials and tribulations.
From her embarrassing work mishaps, to her infamous granny pants, Bridget spoke to a generation who saw themselves in her - and has recently won over a whole new set of younger fans too.
The fourth film in the franchise, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, was released in February, and sees Bridget living as a single mother and tackling modern dating.
It received mixed reviews, but earned the best box office opening ever for a romantic comedy in the UK and Ireland, according to Universal.
The film was billed as the final one in the series - but speaking to BBC News at the statue unveiling, two superfans, Faye and Wayne, said they were sure there would be a sequel.
"There were so many things that were left unresolved at the end of the last film," said Faye.
"Her character keeps evolving. I want to be with Bridget Jones all the way to the nursing home," added Wayne.
Watch: Moment Bridget Jones statue is unveiled in London
When asked about the possibility of a new chapter in Bridget Jones' story, Fielding said: "Never say never. Stories come to you as a writer. So if a story came to me that I thought was true and interesting and new then I would write it."
Some think the floundering and flawed heroine, who's fixated with her weight and relationship status, is not the best role model.
And Fielding herself has previously admitted some parts of the story have not aged well.
"Bridget Jones's Diary couldn't be written now, set now, because all those men in the office would be sacked," she said last year. "It was a really different time."
But speaking on Monday, she said she hoped the wider message of the book would continue to chime for readers.
"I think to have the comfort of seeing a character that you can relate to, because they are real and human and emotionally honest, it's like having the friend you can be honest with," she said.
The statue is the first to celebrate a rom com on Leicester Square's Scenes in the Square trail.
The Scenes in the Square trail originally launched in 2020 with the introduction of eight sculptures featuring Laurel and Hardy, Mary Poppins, Batman, Bugs Bunny, Don Lockwood, Paddington Bear, Mr Bean and Wonder Woman.
Since then, statues of Harry Potter, the Iron Throne from Game of Thrones, Clifford the Big Red Dog and Indiana Jones have been added.
Agency refuse workers brought in to cover for Birmingham's long-running bin strike have voted to take industrial action themselves over claims of bullying and harassment.
Hundreds of members of Unite in Birmingham have been on all-out strike since March in a dispute over pay and jobs.
Unite claimed a growing number of agency staff were refusing to cross the picket lines of striking bin workers due to "unsustainable workloads" and a bullying workplace culture at the council's refuse department.
On Monday, agency staff voted to join offical picket lines from 1 December.
Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said: "This is a real escalation in the dispute with agency workers now joining picket lines due to the terrible way they have been treated by Job and Talent and Birmingham council."
Birmingham City Council previously denied the allegations and said it did not "condone any actions which are contrary to legislation and good employment practice."
Unite union members in the city began a full walkout seven months ago, and in September voted to extend their action until March.
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