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The Palace of Versailles was forced to evacuate visitors for the fourth time in less than a week for a security check after a bomb alert PARIS -- The sumptuous Palace of Versailles was forced to evacuate visitors for the fourth time in less than a week for a security check after a bomb alert. Airports and schools around France also fell victim to bomb alerts and forced evacuations after similar warnings a day earlier. Even a nuclear research institute received a threat Thursday. Pranksters or plotters? No bombs have been found, but authorities can’t take risks with the lives of travelers, students or workers. Still, the government is growing impatient, threatening prison terms and heavy fines for those making fake bomb threats. A rash of false alarms forced the evacuation of 15 airports and cancellation of 130 flights, as well as shutting the doors to the Palace of Versailles repeatedly since last Saturday. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said Thursday evening that 18 people had been...

The Louvre Museum says it is closing for the day and evacuating all visitors and staff after it received a written threat PARIS -- The Louvre Museum in Paris and Versailles Palace evacuated visitors and staff Saturday after receiving bomb threats. The government has put France on high security alert after a fatal school stabbing by a suspected extremist. The Louvre communication service said no one was hurt and no incident was reported. Paris police said officers searched the museum after it received written bomb threat s. The former royal palace at Versailles also received bomb threat s, a national police spokesperson said. The palace and its sprawling gardens were being evacuated while police examine the area, the spokesperson said. Alarms rang out through the Louvre, a vast space also in a former royal palace Paris overlooking the Seine River, when the evacuation was announced, and in the underground shopping center beneath its signature pyramid. Police cordoned off the monument fr...

SHANGHAI: China's widening curbs on iPhone use by government staff intensified a sell-off in global tech stocks on Friday on fears Apple and its supplier s could take a hit from rising Sino-US tensions and growing com Pet ition from Huawei. Apple shares tumbled 6.4% in the previous two days, wiping $190 billion from its market capitalisation, following news Beijing ordered some central government employees in recent weeks to stop using iPhones at work. Several Wall Street analysts on Friday said the selloff was overdone, claiming that any revenue hit for Apple would likely be small due to the phone's popularity in China. After two days of declines, Apple shares rebounded in Friday trading, up 1.3%. Apple is facing stepped-up com Pet ition from China's Huawei, which launched two new smartphones - the foldable Mate X5 and the Mate 60 Pro+ - that drew global attention for showcasing resilience to US sanctions. Some analysts believe Huawei...

The pattern of severe weather is continuing over the next couple of days, threat ening tens of millions of Americans on Sunday and even more on Monday. The pattern of severe weather is continuing over the next couple of days, threat ening tens of millions of Americans on Sunday and even more on Monday. A large swath of the U.S. -- from the Canadian border to the north down to the Gulf Coast in the South -- is at risk for damaging winds tornados, especially in Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio, forecasts show. At least two tornadoes were confirmed in Indiana by storm spotters on Sunday -- one with apparent debris near Crane, Indiana, and another near Fairland, Indiana. At least 75 homes were damaged, Bargersville Fire Chief Eric Funkhouser said. No one was seriously injured, he said. MORE: Excessive heat in Texas to continue into next week, millions on alert for severe storms In Arkansas and Tennessee, respectively, more than 100,000 customers were without power as of late Sunday evening...

Authorities are ringing alarm bells about the growing threat of organized retail crime, where groups of criminals steal high-value items to sell online or elsewhere. The surveillance video, from earlier this year, is startling: Four masked men march in a line through a Home Depot store in New York -- two of them looking like menacing bodyguards -- while the two others confidently push carts stacked with almost a hundred boxes of high-value items that they take but never pay for. When the same crew, allegedly doing the same thing, was approached by a security officer at another Home Depot store nearby, one of the men threatened the guard. "I'll knock you out. This isn't worth dying for," he said, according to prosecutors. MORE: 83-year-old employee dies after being shoved during Home Depot theft: Police As Home Depot executives describe it, that New York-area crew is part of a growing threat to Americans across the country: so-called organized retail crime , where ...