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Paris authorities have closed several tunnels, parks, and the bottom floor of the Louvre Museum as the Seine River swells and the city braces for floods.

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An Egyptian man suspected of charging at soldiers at the Louvre museum in Paris with a machete has been questioned by French investigators for the first time since the attack.

Paris was plunged into panic when soldiers guarding the Louvre Museum shot an attacker who lunged at them with two machetes as the historic landmark went into lockdown.

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A hidden portrait has been found underneath the Mona Lisa, a scientist has claimed.

French officials have identified one of the Paris terror attackers as seven people were detained in Belgium linked to the atrocities.

Paris prosecutor Francois Molins has said three teams seem to have co-ordinated the attacks, and those that targeted the Bataclan concert hall, where 89 people died, mentioned Syria and Iraq.

The Eiffel Tower closed to the public for most of the day yesterday as staff protested over a rise in aggressive pickpockets around the Paris landmark.

A Chinese billionaire has treated 6,400 members of staff to a four-day holiday in France, at a cost of €33m.

At least five drones flew over the Eiffel Tower, the US Embassy and other Paris landmarks overnight, authorities said.

‘The Irish Examiner’ has published a digital archive of its editions from 1841 to 1949. Dan Buckley looks at what’s in store

Guilt-racked Britons are using their sheds to eat unhealthy snacks and store love letters from old flames, a new survey has shown.

A 500-year-old mystery came to an end yesterday after a new painting by Leonardo da Vinci of Renaissance noblewoman Isabella d’Este was reliably authenticated with carbon dating.

Researchers have opened a centuries-old Florence tomb in a search for remains that could confirm the identity of the woman whose enigmatic smile Leonardo da Vinci immortalised in the “Mona Lisa“, one of the world’s most famous paintings.

He’s been writing for 50 years but his work is as ambitious as ever. Ahead of his visit to Ireland, Thomas Keneally spoke to Richard Fitzpatrick about his latest novel

Photographers crowded round today as the curtain was pulled back to present what is claimed to be an early version of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.

A male apprentice, long-time companion and possible lover of Leonardo da Vinci was the main influence and a model for the Mona Lisa painting, an Italian researcher said.

Communications Minister Eamon Ryan was today urged to extend high-speed broadband to all primary schools after he unveiled a €13m scheme for second level pupils.

IN the basement of Paris’s Louvre museum, the early line for Apple’s iPad far surpassed that for entry to see the Mona Lisa.

Paris: Apple, maker of the iPhone and iMac computer, opens the doors tomorrow to its first store in France, sharing a home with Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa at the Louvre museum.

MORE than 600 pieces from Air France Flight 447 are being sent from Brazil to France by ship to be studied further for clues to the cause of the June 1 crash, Airbus said yesterday.

SIX years after the release of his mega-selling The Da Vinci Code, the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group announced that Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol, a thriller set over a 12-hour period and featuring Da Vinci Code symbolist Robert Langdon, will come out in September.

Lady GaGa has lofty ambitions for a career change after she hangs up her mic - she wants to exhibit her own fashion designs at the famed Louvre Museum.

Eva Longoria says she kept her cool at her wedding to Tony Parker.

One of the world’s most glamorous couples, Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria and basketball champion Tony Parker, married today in a civil ceremony in Paris that kicked off a weekend wedding extravaganza expected to include church vows and a star-studded chateau bash.

FIRST the book, then the movie, now the garden. Designer David Domoney is vying for one of the prizes at Chelsea Flower Show with a garden inspired by Dan Brown’s international bestseller The Da Vinci Code.

French students marched, chanted and whistled in renewed nationwide protests today against a new labour law, as the government tried to maintain a united front for this pivotal test of the country’s direction.

Researchers studying fading frescoes in a Florence convent building have found what may have been the workshop where Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa.

Police blocked cars from central Paris today as the French capital and hundreds of other European cities experimented with ways to cut traffic.

KARL LAGERFELD brought cloning to the catwalk yesterday with his latest collection for Lagerfeld Gallery, which featured dozens of doppelgangers dressed in the designer’s trademark black suits and high-collared white shirts.

A fire at a hotel in the centre of Paris has killed four people and injured eight.