The French are to make a film about the Louvre robbery. The director is Romain Gavras, and the source is a book by three journalists from Le Parisien, Le Monde and Paris Match, entitled Main Basse sur le Louvre, or “A Hand on the Louvre”, published by Flammarion this week. In brief, the plot is that art theft has become “a business like any other”.
Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least
Analyst Arvind Kumar and Him Lal Gautam, Chief Surveyor of Nepal's Department of Survey, have published an article on the Himalayan flood of 26 August 2026. A rock-and-ice avalanche broke away that day from the northern slope of Langtang Lirung and turned into a debris flow,