A 24-year-old Chinese woman was indicted for allegedly stealing nearly $2 million worth of gold nuggets from Paris' National Museum of Natural History.

A Chinese-born woman has been charged for the theft of six gold nuggets worth about 1.5 million euros ($1.75m; £1.3m) from the Museum of Natural History in Paris last month, French prosecutors have said. The woman was arrested in Barcelona trying to dispose of some melted gold, according to officials, and is being held in pre-trial detention.

The Louvre museum was hit by a brazen daytime jewel heist, forcing the Paris institution to close its doors for a second day in a row.

Nicolas Sarkozy, the president of France from 2007 to 2012, reported to a prison in Paris weeks after his conviction in a corruption trial.

PARIS — France’s latest political crisis eased — for now — when Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu survived two consecutive no-confidence votes on Thursday, averting another government collapse and giving President Emmanuel Macron a respite before an even tougher fight over the national budget.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday denounced the spectacular theft of jewellery from the Louvre Museum in Paris as an attack on France's cultural history. "The theft from the Louvre is an attack on a cultural asset that we value because it is part of our history,

A rare tornado near Paris blew through several towns north of the capital of France, toppling cranes and killing one person.