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PARIS (AP) — The Louvre Museum in Paris said Monday it is temporarily closing some employees’ offices and one public gallery because of structural fragility.The announcement came as the world’s most visited museum, housed in a former medieval palace, is preparing for ambitious renovations announced earlier this year. The Louvre is also still reeling from last month’s heist of crown jewels worth more than $100 million.The museum said in a statement that a technical report submitted Friday flagged “particular fragility of certain beams holding up the floors” of the second level of the southern wing of the Louvre’s Sully wing…

Nov 17, 2025, 07:04 AM ETHarry Kane believes England’s blistering qualification campaign has shown what Thomas Tuchel’s World Cup contenders are capable of.The Euro 2024 runners-up are among the favourites for glory in North America next summer and a nation others will want to avoid in the December 5 draw.England secured their spot at the finals with two games to spare and on Sunday completed a perfect qualification campaign, with Kane’s brace in a 2-0 triumph in Albania making it eight wins and eight clean sheets.It is the first time a European team has achieved that feat when playing at…

Jensen Huang attends a reception for the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, at St James’ Palace in London, Brirain, Nov. 5, 2025. Yui Mok | Via ReutersNvidia CEO Jensen Huang revealed in October that his company has $500 billion in orders, in 2025 and 2026 combined, for its chips that are at the heart of the artificial intelligence boom.For a company that has seen its quarterly revenue grow nearly 600% over the past four years, Huang’s statement was a sign that Nvidia is confident of another year of strong — but slowing — growth for its next cycle of…

2025 Jeep Cherokee SUVStellantisAUBURN HILLS, Mich. — Jeep is betting Americans still love a good comeback story.It’s a mantra that’s reverberating through the quintessential SUV brand — from its CEO to a marketing campaign with LL Cool J — following yearslong sales and market share declines that have taken a toll on Jeep and its parent company, Stellantis.”This isn’t just a comeback. This is the Jeep brand reclaiming a segment we invented and defined,” Jeep CEO Bob Broderdorf said during a recent media event.Jeep has been in a rut this decade, despite the brand’s well-known off-road capabilities that have carried…

It was noticeable, while Jude Bellingham was throwing his arms in the air in frustration at being substituted, that two other England players in particular made an effort to come over and congratulate/commiserate with him as he left the field: Phil Foden and Harry Kane.The two players who, just days earlier, Thomas Tuchel had said couldn’t be on the pitch at the same time as the Real Madrid star, because they don’t complement each other. Bellingham, portrayed by some as a loner, a self-obsessed and bolshy non-team-player, was there in front of millions, getting the solidarity and public support of…

A Swiss national flag on a ferry on Lake Geneva in Geneva, Switzerland, on Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025. The Swiss president dashed to the US capital Tuesday in a last-minute attempt to prevent her American counterpart from imposing the highest tariff of any developed nation on Switzerland.  Photographer: Andrew Kravchenko/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesBloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesSwitzerland’s fledgling trade deal with the U.S. is dividing opinion as government and business leaders welcome a “restart” for the country, while critics caution it amounts to a sellout to the White House.The trade deal, announced on Friday, saw duties on Swiss exports to the…

Nov 17, 2025, 06:10 AM ETFormer Chelsea midfielder Oscar has been released from hospital after being admitted last week following an abnormal cardiac episode.Oscar, 34, felt unwell and temporarily lost consciousness while using an exercise bicycle as part of a routine pre-season fitness test at Brazilian club São Paulo ‘s training complex on Nov. 11 and The Brazilian player was admitted to the cardiology unit of São Paulo’s Einstein Hospital and underwent extensive tests throughout the week before being discharged on Sunday.”Extensive investigation carried out at the hospital confirmed that the player presented an episode of vasovagal syncope,” a São…

The reality of professional sport, of course, dictates that it will be a small number of the players Nightingale oversees who go all the way and fulfil their greatest ambitions.Which is why, with that benefit of personal experience, he – in keeping with the Academy’s overall ethos – seeks to hone his pupils for a multitude of possible eventualities in life.”We try to squeeze as much out of every individual as we can,” he says. “And if ultimately that’s to become a player for Liverpool then fantastic.”Equally, if we get the best version of themselves and they go and forge…

Adnan Hussain, one of the six MPs in the “steering group” organising the founding of a new left-wing party, has announced he is leaving in a move likely to have dramatic consequences for the British left. The announcement by the independent MP for Blackburn on Friday afternoon indicated he believes the party is not pluralistic or broad-based enough to accommodate him and his politics. This is the latest in a long series of controversies to have plagued the new party, which is temporarily named Your Party and has its founding conference scheduled for the end of this month. For the party to…

A SK Hynix Inc. 12-layer HBM3E memory chip displayed at the Semiconductor Exhibition in Seoul, South Korea. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesChipmakers and analysts are warning of a memory chip shortage that could hit the consumer electronics and automotive industries next year, as companies prioritize massive demand from the artificial intelligence boom. In an earnings call on Friday, the CEO of Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp, China’s largest contract chipmaker, said that fears of a memory chip shortage were prompting its customers to hold back orders for other types of chips used in their products.”Everyone is hesitant to place too many…