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,

Culture minister and Paris mayoral candidate Rachida Dati has come under fire from the Parisian left after the burglary.

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

The investigative team searching for the robbers behind the Louvre heist is very large. Laure Beccuau, a Paris prosecutor in the office leading the investigation, told The Associated Press that around 100 investigators were involved in the police hunt for the jewels and the culprits.

The Louvre in Paris reopened on Wednesday, three days after thieves made off with historic jewellery worth an estimated 88 million euros ($102 million) in a spectacular heist that has raised urgent questions over security lapses at the museum.

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.

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,