After this year’s popular success, the Tour de France will return to Montmartre for the grand finale of the 2026 edition that also includes two stage finishes at the Alpe d'Huez. Tens of thousands of fans packed the streets of Paris’ picturesque Montmartre district this summer to witness the final showdown between four-time Tour champion Tadej Pogačar and his rivals.

The 2026 men's Tour de France will for a second year include a final stage up Paris’ Montmartre hill, and that will follow two gruelling Alpe d’Huez summit finishes, organisers said on Thursday, promising a route to keep up the suspense to the very end.

The French crown jewels robbed from the Louvre museum in Paris are likely lost forever, an art crime expert tells CBS News, even if the thieves are caught.

There is evidence that France's current political turmoil is partly to blame, but it will come as a blow to the UK government's attempts to tackle the issue. In the meantime, dangerously overcrowded inflatable boats continue to leave the coast on an almost daily basis, from a shallow tidal canal near the port of Dunkirk.

The route for the 2026 men's Tour de France, which will start from Barcelona on July 4, was unveiled by the race's organisers on Thursday.

"This exciting new route will connect travelers from Las Vegas and the greater Southwest to Paris and our extensive global network across Europe and beyond," Nicolas Henin, the general manager for North America at Air France-KLM, said in a statement shared with T+L.

French police are desperate to retrieve priceless jewels stolen from the Louvre in a brazen daylight robbery, but experts have warned it may already be too late to save them.

The precious artifacts snatched from Paris’s Louvre Museum on Sunday include an emerald necklace gifted by Napoleon to his second wife and other priceless crown jewels.

Authorities raced against the clock Tuesday as experts in art security told NBC News it could already be too late to recover the jewels.

A cruise passenger was found unresponsive in her cabin while the boat was docked in Cannes, France, a local outlet has reported.

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