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Thieves Still Jewelry from the Louve Museum in Paris.

Hello, I'm Peter, and

I'm Phil. In this program, 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, bbc learning english dot com.

So, phil, let's hear more about this story.

Thieves broke into the Louve Museum in Paris on Sunday morning and stole eight extremely valuable items of jewelry.

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 7 min let's have our 1st headline, and this is from The New York Times.

In just seven brazen minutes, thieves grab priceless jewels from lou That headline again from The New York Times, A newspaper in the US In just seven brazen minutes thieves grab priceless jewels from louv So this headline talks about the short time it took thieves to steal the jury seven brazen minutes.

And brazen means bold or obvious, but we're interested in the description of the jewels as priceless.

Now, price makes me think that this has something to do with the cost of the jewels.

Fill Yes, it does. Priceless means that something is very, very valuable.

The jewels that were stolen from the Louvre were very valuable.

They were priceless. Yes, it's a bit confusing, because the suffolks less might make you think that the jewels have no price because they're not worth anything, but actually it means they have no price because they're so valuable, a price couldn't be calculated for them.

You'll often see prices use to describe things like art or historical artifacts because they are rare and unique.

A similar word is invaluable. We might think that this means that something is not very valuable, but actually it means something is so valuable a value couldn't be calculated for it.

We can also use prices informally in quite a different way.

If we describe a joke story or event as prices, we mean it's very amusing.

We had priceless, extremely valuable E.G.

His house is filled with priceless artwork.

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Applecast. About the news headlines today.

We're talking about the break in at the Loof Museum in Paris.

The robbery at the Louve happened on Sunday morning.

Just after the museum opened. The thieves used a ladder to climb onto a balcony at the museum and power tools to break in.

Tourists were evacuated from the building, and the museum was closed on Sunday and Monday.

Our next headline is about the timing of the robbery, and this is from The Times, a British newspaper.

Louve Heist thieves steel crown jewels in daylight burglary.

That headline, again, from The Times loof heist These steel crown jewels in daylight Burglary.

So this headline mentions the highest at the loop.

Heist is a word for an organized theft.

We're looking at the phrase daylight burglary.

What can you tell us? Phil?

Well, let's break it down. Daylight literally means the light from the sun that we get during the daytime, but you can also refer to the period of time when it's light the day, and burglary means breaking into a property to steal something, right?

So literally, daylight burglary just means a theft that happened during the daytime.

Exactly the headline is emphasizing that this is a shocking crime.

We might expect a burglary to happen at night when it's dark and a fewer people around, but these thieves chose to break in during the day when they could be easily seen.

It is bold and shocking. Now, there's a very similar phrase to daylight burglary that we use in English quite often, isn't there?

Yes, we can describe something as daylight robbery to say that it's unreasonably expensive.

Yes, E.G. I bought a takeaway coffee this morning, and they charged me an extra 1 lb for the cub.

It's daylight robbery now. The cafe on

literally stealing from you, but the expensive cup makes you feel like you've paid too much, and this is unfair.

We ve had burglary breaking into property to

steal something, E.G. There have been lots of burglaries in my neighborhood recently.

I think I'm going to get an alarm installed.

This is learning English from the news, from BBC, learning English.

We are talking about the expensive jewelry that has been stolen from the Louvre in Paris.

French authorities are searching for the thieves, but the French Justice Minister, cheryl Dharmanam, has said that if the thieves are not caught quickly, it is unlikely that the stolen jewelry will be found.

This is because many of the jewels are covered with hundreds of diamonds and precious stones, and they can easily be broken into to smaller parts and sold separately.

Our next headline is about the search for the thieves and the stolen jewelry.

This one's from sky News Race against Time As police try to recover priceless jewels from louve As authorities reveal details of daring raid And that headline again from sky News Race against time As police try to recover priceless jewels From luv As authorities reveal details of daring raid.

This headline describes the search for the stolen jewels as a race against time.

What do we mean by a race against time?

Fill Well, race against time is an expression which means that there's only a short amount of time left to do something Right In this story, police think that the thieves will quickly break apart the jewels they've stolen and sell them.

So police want to find the thieves quickly before they have a chance to do this.

It's a race against time. Now, we commonly hear this expression in stories about crime and policing, but we might also hear it used to describe any situation where there's a time pressure, e.g., after a natural disaster, like a flood, emergency services are in a race against time to rescue survivors.

A notes on using this phrase.

You can describe a situation as a race against time, or someone can be in a race against time.

We had race against time a situation where there's only a limited amount of time to do something, e.g.

the town only has a few hours to prepare for the big storm.

It's a race against time. That's it for this episode of Learning English from the News.

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