Latest arrests made in Paris region but no indication of whether crown jewels worth £76m have been recovered

Five new suspects have been arrested in connection with the Louvre robbery in Paris, in which thieves stole crown jewels worth an estimated €88m (£76m), French media have reported.

Citing judicial sources, RTL radio said on Thursday the arrests had been made in connection with the heist, the most spectacular robbery in France in decades. BFMTV previously reported one new suspect had been arrested.

A companion novel to the brilliant Writers & Lovers, this delightfully witty tale of college romance matures into midlife poignancy

The university experience is a risky business in fiction. Generally, the feelings are intense, but the stakes are low; it’s all very formative for the individual character, but it can feel a bit trivial to anyone else. In fact, reading an account of someone’s university days is surely only one or two stages removed from having to hear about the dream they had last night.

So my heart initially sank at Heart the Lover’s cover promise that our main character would soon be “swept into an intoxicating world of academic fervour, rapid-fire banter and raucous card games” – good grief, save me from the raucous card games! But obviously the caveat here is what it always is: a good writer will make it matter. I had faith, therefore, that everything would be all right, since Lily King is an exceptionally good writer. Indeed, she could probably write a book-length account of her most recent dream and I would still rush to read it.

Between 2019 and 2023, as the Taliban returned to power, Lorenzo Tugnoli took photos of families and fighters in Afghanistan, hoping to show a side to the country not seen in the news

The native woodland of Hoia-Baciu in Romania is a place where the human imagination can run riot. A guided night tour is the perfect way to discover its otherworldly charms

‘They call this place the Bermuda Triangle of Transylvania,” says tour guide Marius Lazin, his breath expelling a procession of cotton-wool ghosts into the sharp evening air. “So many people have disappeared here, some say it’s a portal to another dimension.” Marius is leading me on a night walk through what is often described as the world’s most haunted forest: Hoia-Baciu, a square mile of old-growth native woodland on the outskirts of the Romanian city of Cluj-Napoca. He’s been coming here three nights a week for the past 12 years, but even he looks a little uneasy as he arcs his torch like a searchlight against the knotted walls of elm and beech trees which embrace us on all sides, looking so thick that they might be the boundary of the known world.

Marius motions with his torch towards several pairs of slender beech trees, eerie in their symmetry, branches intertwined to form arches – portals or stargates, you might speculate, were you possessed of a particularly febrile imagination. “Many came in here and never came out. But don’t worry,” he adds, turning to me with a grin. “Our tours have a 100% return rate.”

Though the probability is low, recent history shows there is a non-zero chance a celebrity – or monarch – may crash your wedding. However, not all big day cameos were created equal

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There are a few things that celebrities simply love more than the rest of us: selling hot sauces , buccal fat removal, and crashing weddings. The most recent example is far sweeter than the term “gatecrasher” might suggest: the Lord of the Rings actor Elijah Wood, who surprised a bride and groom during their wedding ceremony in Hobbiton, a set from the films, in Matamata, New Zealand.

We last ranked celebrity wedding-crashers a decade ago, by how welcome they’d be at the average wedding; given how often it seems to happen, we’re due another go. In the case of Wood, everyone was screaming, he came in politely and left quickly, and he was the only one not wearing hobbity clothes – so, as gatecrashers go, we can confidently say he was very, very welcome. 10/10.

Rogueish comedy comes to a close with climactic 50th episode. Plus, it’s Peter Pansy – The Rusical in Drag Race! Here’s what to watch this evening

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Joseph Gilgun and Danny Brocklehurst are bringing the curtain down on their comedy about a tight-knit bunch of likable chancers running riot in a rural Lancashire town. You might expect the finale to be a greatest hits victory lap of booze, drugs and cheeky thievery. But the vibes are distinctly darker as Vinnie (Gilgun) and the gang hole up in a pub with gangster Davey MacDonagh (Neil Ashton) for a climactic 50th episode apparently inspired by Quentin Tarantino. Graeme Virtue

As he prepares to host The Game of Wool, the Olympian diver talks about trying to get murdered faithfuls resurrected on Traitors – and the time he knitted himself a woollen chandelier

In The Game of Wool, Channel 4’s quest to find Britain’s best knitter, you can’t take your eyes off Tom Daley’s outfits. One of his goals for the series, he says, is that “what I was wearing would get progressively more interesting”, which is ridiculous because in the very first episode he’s wearing a vivid, asymmetrical shawl that in some places reaches the floor, and he looks like a wizard who might seem chaotic but is actually very powerful.

“Sheila [Greenwell, one of two judges, along with Di Gilpin] made that for La Fetiche ,” he says, referring to the avant garde house of knitwear. “Later on I wear some stuff by Hope Macaulay , a Northern Irish textiles designer, then Boy Kloves , right out of Central Saint Martins, then towards the end, two archival Stella McCartney looks.”

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Jack Holden has elegantly adapted Alan Hollinghurst’s Booker winner about class envy, gay culture and political scandal in 80s Britain

How to adapt a novel as big and shimmering as Alan Hollinghurst’s 2004 Booker prize winner? It’s a book that captures not just the hypocrisies of one elite, Thatcher-loving family but the hypocrisies of a whole era, with power and politics bristling beside the hedonistic explosion of 1980s gay culture.

Maybe it needs an entire series (as in the case of Andrew Davies’s TV adaptation ), but Jack Holden, whose 2021 play Cruise traversed similar ground, makes a robust go of it here. He arrives at the dark heart of the book while filleting and mixing the order of things so that the timeline of the central three sections is shorter and slicker, but also less intensely lived.

New York museum under fire from heirs of Jewish couple allegedly forced to surrender artwork upon fleeing to US

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is being sued by the heirs of a Jewish couple over a Vincent van Gogh oil painting they say was looted by the Nazis.

The suit alleges the couple, Hedwig and Frederick Stern, bought the painting, Olive Picking, in 1935, the year before they were forced to flee their home in Munich.