Historic jewels stolen from Louvre

Learning English from the News

2025-10-22

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(Photo by Jerome Gilles/NurPhoto via Getty Images) ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Download a free worksheet ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ The story Thieves broke into the Louvre museum in Paris on Sunday morning and stole eight extremely valuable items of jewellery. The robbers used power tools to break into the museum, which is the famous home of the Mona Lisa painting. The thieves escaped on scooters, and took items including tiaras and necklaces, that belonged to French royalty or imperial rulers. The entire break in took about seven minutes. News headlines In Just 7 Brazen Minutes, Thieves Grab ‘Priceless’ Jewels From Louvre New York Times Louvre heist: thieves steal crown jewels in daylight burglary The Times 'Race against time' as police try to recover 'priceless' jewels from Louvre - as authorities reveal details of daring raid Sky News Key words and phrases priceless extremely valuable burglary breaking into a property to steal something race against time a situation where there is only a limited amount of time to do something Next  Find all our news programmes. Find an A-Z list of all our programmes. Find our latest programmes.
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  • From BBC Learning English, this is Learning English from the News,

  • our podcast about the news headlines.

  • In this programme, Thieves steal jewellery from the Louvre Museum in Paris.

  • Hello, I'm Pippa.

  • And I'm Phil.

  • In this programme,

  • we look at one big news story and the vocabulary in the headlines that will help you understand it.

  • You can find all the vocabulary and headlines from this episode as well as a worksheet on our website bbclearningenglish.com So Phil,

  • let's hear more about this story.

  • Thieves broke into the Louvre Museum in Paris on Sunday morning and stole eight extremely valuable items of jewellery.

  • The robbers used power tools to break into the museum which is the famous home of the Mona Lisa painting.

  • The thieves escaped on scooters and took items including tiaras and necklaces that had belonged to French royalty or imperial rulers.

  • The entire break-in took about seven minutes.

  • Let's have our first headline and this is from The New York Times.

  • In just seven brazen minutes, thieves grab priceless jewels from Louvre.

  • That headline again from The New York Times and newspaper in the US.

  • In just seven brazen minutes, thieves grab priceless jewels from Louvre.

  • So this headline talks about the short time it took thieves to steal the jewellery.

  • Seven brazen minutes.

  • And brazen means bold or obvious.