The shortlisted firms are Amanda Levete Architects, architecturestudio, Dubuisson Architecture, Sou Fujimoto, and STUDIOS Architecture.

French authorities were quick to arrest four suspects—but questions remain about shadowy buyers and a potential suspect nicknamed LASER.

The Louvre in Paris said a strike action by staff was forcing it to close on Monday. In recent months, the world's most visited museum has been disrupted by recurring strikes, building maintenance issues and last October's dramatic theft of crown jewels.

PARIS -- Workers at the Louvre Museum voted Monday for strikes to protest their work conditions, a ticket-price hike for non-European visitors and security weaknesses that a brazen daylight theft of France's Crown Jewels highlighted in October. In a letter ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PARIS (AP) — Five more people were arrested overnight in the Louvre crown-jewels heist — including a man identified by DNA as one of the suspected robbers — the Paris prosecutor ...

France began charging non-EU visitors to the Louvre Museum 45 percent more than Europeans on Wednesday, in a controversial bid to raise money for renovations at the beleaguered Paris landmark. The move is one of the boldest adoptions in Europe of so-called ...

PARIS — Paris' Louvre museum has approved a ticket hike from 22 to 32 euros ($25 to $37) for non-European visitors from January to help finance an overhaul of the building whose degradation has been exposed by the Oct. 19 crown jewels heist. The measure ...

PARIS (AP) — Long lines beneath I.M. Pei’s glass pyramid in Paris have become as much a part of the experience as the “ Mona Lisa ” itself. The museum said the 45% price hike to 32 euros ($37) from 22 euros is part of a national “differentiated ...