For liberals, tomorrow's midterm elections could be a bloodbath. Rand Paul, Christine O'Donnell, Carl Paladino: These are people who could soon rule America! If they do get elected, where can you go? What foreign cities will be your refuge?

[A striking French university student holds a sign that reads "'Sarkozy babies are in the street and we are going to wipe your ass." Workers have been striking for a week over something or other. Image via Getty]

A woman in France killed her child when she and 11 other members of her family jumped from their third-floor balcony because they thought they saw the devil. There had to be drugs involved in this, right?

France is still totally going off over the government's plan to up the retirement age from 60 to 62. Here, high schoolers in Lyon flip a car, which looks way more fun than going to class. [Image via AP]

[This uniquely attired student was one of the estimated 1 million people who took to the streets across France today to protest the government's plan to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62. A racy protest sign inside.]

We never could fathom why famously liberal France would go and ban people from wearing burqas. Innate meanness? (Yes). And now French Muslims have something even more frightening to worry about: burqa rage!

Jérôme Kerviel, the Société Générale trader who lost $6.7 billion of the bank's money, was sentenced to five years in prison today.

[A jovial French President Nicolas Sarkozy and wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy break out the grins for the press. Images via Splash]

The Eiffel Tower was evacuated today following its second bomb scare in under a month. Yesterday, a Paris train station was evacuated; two weeks ago, a false alarm emptied the Eiffel of tourists. Today's threat came by anonymous phone call.

[Two employees of the Russian Railways Moscow-Nice service train show restraint as a woman films them very up close after pulling into Nice Station, France today. Image via AP]

Philippe Croizon, the 42-year-old quadruple amputee who on Saturday swam across the English Channel in just over 13 hours, says he wants to cross the Strait of Gibraltar between Spain and Morocco: "We all have it in ourselves." [AP]

Reader Charles sent us this screenshot of the Twitter account of France's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which was hacked but still managed to convey President Nicolas Sarkozy's feelings toward the Roma he's busy deporting.

In her new, authorized biography, French first lady Carla Bruni recalls talking to Michelle Obama on a trip to Washington, during which Obama says of her post, "It's hell. I can't stand it." Only two more years, Michelle!

After the European Union justice commissioner called France's deportations of Roma a "disgrace," France's Europe minister Pierre Lellouche got pissy: "You don't address yourself like that to a great state such as France, which is the mother of human rights."

The Eiffel Tower and surrounding park have been evacuated due to a bomb alert.

France keeps getting crazier. First with Roma-deporting, now with the Senate voting 246-1 for a Sarkozy-approved ban against full-body Muslim veils. Dissenters have ten days to object, then it's law. Conservative internet commenters are torn: Hate France or Hate Muslims???

A 54-year-old Parisian is either a modern Casanova, a fraud, or the French incarnation of the "anchor baby" bogeyman. He claims to have fathered 55 children, each with a different foreign-born, welfare-collecting mother. Expect this story on Fox News tonight.

A new study indicates that French people have pretty terrible sex lives, with more than three-quarters of respondents saying that sexual problems were causing relationship problems. But what about every stereotype of French people, ever?

A French soccer team won't let one of its veteran players, Yoann Lemaire, back on the team after he came out of the closet and took a sabbatical. It appears what team you play for really matters.

Looking for a popularity boost, unpopular xenophobic French President Nicolas Sarkozy continued his expulsion of Roma, with another 283 deported from France today. Sarkozy's interior minister said Roma "delinquency" had risen 138 percent last year. Meanwhile, everyone hates Sarkozy.