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.

IT seems that nowhere is safe from the worldwide icon for excess fuelled by convenience.

Thieves stole two diamonds worth more than €11m from a display case at a Paris antique show near the Louvre today, police officials said.