In this talk, recent results from the heavy-ion program at the CERN Large Hadron
Collider (LHC) are presented. Special emphasis is given on so-called hard probes,
i.e. production and correlations of particles at large transverse momentum or containing
heavy quarks. Such probes are abundantly produced at LHC energies. We conclude that the
field has entered an era of precision measurements, giving rise to the expectation
that a detailed characterization of the hot Quark-Gluon Plasma is within reach.