India, April 17 -- Louvre jewels. Four minutes. Four thieves. Eight pieces of 19th-century jewellery worth $102 million, gone. The October 2025 heist was the Paris museum's first theft in 27 years. Masked bandits made off with an emerald and diamond necklace-earrings set gifted by Napoleon I to Empress Marie-Louise and other objets d'art from the French royal family. The museum's video surveillance system had the password "Louvre". Les amateurs!

Asiatic Society maps. Mumbai's Asiatic Society vaults keep bugs and insects out. But somehow, about 345 hand-drawn maps dating to the 19th century have gone missing from the 200-year institution. Some of them catalogued city plans of Bombay when its first revenue survey was carried out; others we...