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Former French President, Nicolas Sarkozy's request to be released from jail pending appeal was heard by a Paris court on Monday, less than three weeks after the ex-head of state began serving a five-year prison sentence. The sentence was handed down after his conviction for conspiring to raise campaign funds from former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.

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France has been left reeling after one of the most audacious daylight robberies in its history saw priceless jewels stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris. Valued at 88 million euros ($102,443,000), the treasures included jewels once worn by royalty from the Napoleonic era, among them Queen Marie-Amélie and Queen Hortense. French prosecutor Laure Beccuau confirmed that around 100 investigators are now involved in tracking down the criminals, whose operation lasted just seven minutes.
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Behind the tortured genius of Vincent van Gogh lies an unexpected friendship that reshaped his final years and left a lasting mark on art history. That friendship was with Joseph Roulin, a humble postman in the southern French town of Arles. Their deep bond, forged during Van Gogh's most turbulent period, is now the centerpiece of a new exhibition, Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits, opening at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston before moving to Amsterdam.
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Employees of French luxury conglomerate Kering have launched a four-hour strike across its Italian branches, protesting the company's alleged unwillingness to engage in dialogue over working conditions and remote work policies. The strike, organized by three major unions,Filctem Cgil, Femca Cisl, and Uiltec Uil,affects staff at high-end brands including Gucci, Balenciaga, and Yves Saint Laurent.
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In a moment that seemed to bridge centuries of division, Britain's King Charles and Pope Leo prayed together inside the Vatican's Sistine Chapel on Thursday, marking the first joint worship between an English monarch and a Catholic pontiff since King Henry VIII's dramatic split from Rome in 1534. The air was filled with solemn beauty as Latin chants intertwined with English prayers beneath Michelangelo's breathtaking frescoes of the Last Judgment. Charles, the supreme governor of the Church of England, sat to Pope Leo's left as the two leaders led worship accompanied by the Sistine Chapel Choir and two royal choirs.
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The 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai, whose dark, apocalyptic, and deeply philosophical works have earned him global recognition as one of the most challenging yet rewarding voices in modern literature. Announced at a ceremony in Stockholm on Thursday, the Nobel Committee hailed Krasznahorkai "for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art."
Born in Gyula, Hungary, in 1954, Krasznahorkai's writing reflects a haunting sense of loss and existential inquiry rooted in a country that endured Soviet repression. His novels are populated by restless, despairing characters who search for meaning amid chaos. The late Susan Sontag famously described him as "the contemporary master of the apocalypse," a label that perfectly captures his artistic universe: bleak, absurd, and unrelentingly profound.
In his 1989 masterpiece The Melancholy of Resistance, a mysterious traveling circus arrives in a decaying town, bringing with it only the carcass of a giant whale. What follows is an eruption of hysteria and violence that mirrors the collapse of order itself. Critics have interpreted the novel as an allegory for the rise of fascism, though Krasznahorkai resists moral simplicity. As the Nobel Committee observed, his fiction is marked by "absurdism and grotesque excess," forcing readers to confront the madness of existence without the comfort of resolution.
Krasznahorkai's prose is equally distinctive. His famously long, winding sentences (sometimes stretching for pages) create a rhythm that his translator George Szirtes once likened to a "slow lava flow." The author himself once remarked that the full stop "belongs to God," suggesting that human experience is too complex for tidy conclusions. This stylistic daring is evident in his 1985 debut Sátántangó, later adapted into a seven-hour film by Béla Tarr, which Sontag called "enthralling for every minute."
His more recent work, Herscht 07769 (2021), written in a single sentence, has been praised for capturing the absurdities of contemporary Germany, featuring a physicist whose apocalyptic theories lead him to write desperate letters to Angela Merkel.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán congratulated the writer on X, calling the win "a moment of national pride," despite Krasznahorkai's open criticism of his government. The award, which includes 11 million Swedish kronor ($1 million), cements his place among literary greats such as Han Kang and Jon Fosse, past laureates recognized for expanding the boundaries of human expression through art.
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