"A thief stole five paintings, including major works by Picasso and Matisse, in a brazen overnight heist from a Paris modern-art museum, police and prosecutors said Thursday. The paintings disappeared early Thursday from the Paris Museum of Modern Art, across the Seine River from the Eiffel Tower, in one of the French capital's most chic and tourist-frequented neighborhoods...On a cordoned-off balcony behind the museum, police in blue gloves and face masks examined the broken window and empty frames. The paintings appeared to have been carefully removed from the disassembled frames, not sliced out." - bob