PARIS (AP) — After more than five years of frenetic, but sometimes interrupted, reconstruction work, Notre Dame Cathedral showed itself anew to the world Friday, with rebuilt soaring ceilings and creamy good-as-new stonework erasing somber memories of its devastating fire in 2019.

PARIS - French investigators opened a probe into possible arson Saturday after a fire tore through parts of Nantes Cathedral in northwestern France, bringing scenes reminiscent of last year's inferno that nearly destroyed the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.