Seven minutes is all it took for thieves to rob the world’s most famous museum Sunday. Here's a minute-by-minute breakdown of how it went down.

The Louvre’s strains have been visible for months. In June, a spontaneous staff strike — including security personnel — forced the museum to close as workers protested unmanageable crowds, chronic understaffing and what one union called “untenable” conditions, leaving thousands of ticketed visitors under Pei’s pyramid.

Paris: The world-famous museum in Paris will remain closed on Monday, following a dramatic jewels heist. Museum management confirmed the closure, explaining that visitors with tickets for Monday will be reimbursed because of “exceptional circumstances.” “The museum is closed for the whole day,” one member of staff told visitors.

The Louvre’s iconic glass pyramid is turning 30, and Paris’s famed museum is pulling out all the stops. The celebrated French street artist JR pulled off a stunning optical illusion on Friday, when he surrounded the glass pyramid in a collage made of ...

PARIS (Reuters) - The courtyard around the Louvre Museum's famed glass pyramid is to become the stage for a giant interactive performance orchestrated by French visual artist JR as part of celebrations for the structure's 30th anniversary. An army of ...

PARISPARIS — The Louvre museum in Paris paid tribute Friday to the architect of its giant glass pyramid, I.M. Pei who died earlier this week at the age of 102 at his home in New York City. Dozens of employees of the Louvre gathered under the pyramid ...

Parts of the Louvre’s video network are even still analog, producing lower-quality images that are slow to share in real time.