Opera may be conspicuous by its absence, but the brilliance of Berlin Philharmonic’s Schoenberg and the exceptional South Korean Yunchan Lim gave us plenty to sink our teeth into this year

US company that defends millions of websites against malicious attacks suffers unidentified problem A key piece of the internet’s usually hidden infrastructure suffered a global outage on Monday, causing error messages to flash up across websites. Cloudflare, a US company whose services include defending millions of websites against malicious attacks, suffered an unidentified problem on Tuesday, which meant internet users could not access some customers’ websites. Continue reading...

Footage showing two men appears to have been filmed from nearby window in museum The slow-motion getaway of two thieves from the Louvre clutching €88m (£76m) of France’s crown jewels was captured on video, it has emerged – the latest dramatic twist to the country’s most spectacular heist in decades. The 36-second clip, which Le Parisien newspaper said it had verified, shows two men dressed in black, one wearing a yellow hi-vis vest and the other a motorcycle helmet, slowly descending on a furniture lift from the museum’s Apollo gallery. Continue reading...