Gold worth $700,000 stolen from Paris's Natural History Museum amid string of similar heists | NYGazet

A break-in was detected on Tuesday, with the intruders reportedly using an angle grinder and a blow torch to force their way into the river-side complex.

Thieves have broken into Paris's Natural History Museum, making off with gold samples worth $700,000 in the latest of a worrying series of robberies from cultural institutions, according to the museum. Famed for its dinosaur skeletons and stuffed ani... [2014 chars]