The world's most visited museum was closed on Monday after employees complained they were harassed by tourists waiting to see the Mona Lisa.

The suspect in last week's machete attack at the Louvre Museum is facing preliminary charges of attempted murder and association with a terrorist organization, the Paris prosecutor's office said.

The condition of an Egyptian man said to have attacked soldiers with a machete at France’s Louvre museum has deteriorated, authorities said.

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Update 10.09pm: The man who attacked soldiers in front of the Louvre Museum in Paris is believed to be an Egyptian, French authorities have said.

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Rivers in Europe have burst their banks from Paris to the southern German state of Bavaria, killing six people, trapping thousands more in homes or cars and forcing everything from subway lines to castles to the Louvre to shut down.

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

LENS, in northern France, has several claims to fame. Its railway station is unique and the only branch of the Louvre, outside Paris, has been established in the town.