Remember that gay French (is that redundant?) McDonald's ad that was cute, if not kinda sad (kid's closeted, after all)? Well an American McDonald's exec is now saying that kind of ad will never run in the States.

Please excuse the French for believing they lived in a free country and not some Russian gulag—obviously, they were mistaken. For the first time since France became civilized, its workers are expected to work until age 62.

The World Cup soccer games started today in South Africa and the whole world (minus America) is all excited. We've already looked at the sexy players, but what about those crazy football fans? They sure are... something!

When discussing a gay-themed McDonald's ad on his show last night, Bill O'Reilly likened gay men to Al-Qaeda. There are no ways left to say that the Fox News' host is ignorant, but we're going to try anyway.

France's first lady is tres embarrassed that an old, raunchy episode of a talk show called Eurotrash has surfaced online. Now the French government is scrambling to get it yanked from YouTube. Here's what they don't want you to see.

French farmers transformed part of the Champs Elysees—the iconic Paris street on which the Arc de Triomphe sits—into farmland in an attempt to promote the struggling farm industry. Click through for more photos of French people having fun.

On Thursday art thieves broke into the Museum of Modern Art in Paris and stole $123m of paintings, including a Matisse and a Picasso. Yesterday two men got into the home of a collector in Marseille and stole five works.

"Drunks" might be harsh. But of 150,000 people studied by the Public Assistance Hospitals of Paris, the people who drank three glasses of wine a day tended to be healthier. Because, Dr. Pierre Le Wiiiine claims, they're socially happier.

[A flash of light erupts as the stars approach the paparazzi on the red carpet at the premiere of The Housemaid at the Cannes Film Festival today. Image via Getty]

You know how your friends always bring you trinkets back from their vacations? In the 18th and 19th century, those trinkets were mummified human heads. France has just voted to return 15 mummified heads of Maori warriors to New Zealand.

An armada of small ships set off from Dover to rescue Britons stranded in France by the Icelandic volcano. But the French seem to have forgotten the unity of WW2 and have denied the ships entry into its ports. [NYT]

One moment from childhood defines a man's entire existence as he time-travels from post-Apocalyptic Paris to save humanity, hunted by the scientists who sent him, and haunted by his strange memory of a gunshot and a girl on the pier.

[Despite recent rumors, Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy looked quite happy leaving Columbia University today, where the French president gave a speech to students. Image via Getty]

Tonight, Anthony Bourdain traded in bull testicles and bizarre exotic dishes for boiled vegetables and Cotes du Rhone wines, taking in the impossible beauty of Provence.

[Marion Cotillard, a French swan turned into a human woman by a witch's spell, gets pin-pricked while being inducted into France's Order of Arts & Letters; image via Bauer-Griffin]

Mon dieu, the French, they are so insatiable. Nicolas Sarkozy and his young, frequently nude ex-model wife Carla Bruni have both been accused by French magazine Suchablog.com (does that work in French?) of schtupping a Junior Minister and musician, respectively.

Ruth Flowers is remixing what the kids are listening to these days. The 69-year-old DJ traded in her knitting needles for a midi controller. And she no longer listens to Burt Bacharach unless it's a trance mix of "Magic Moments."

Starbucks and McDonald's have co-opted macarons, meringue-like cookie sandwiches that shall henceforth be known as Pastry Big Macs. "I saw them at the McCafé on the Champs-Élysées—just down the street from Ladurée! What is the world coming to?!?"

It's one thing to get racked in the berries flying down a hill at 70 MPH, it's quite another for the announcer to add insult to injury with some hilarious commentary. Ohhh monsieuuuuuuur!

French Customs officials uncovered a colossal scam wherein a dozen French winemakers sold 18 million bottles of fake Pinot Noir to an American distributor. Sniffed one winemaker's lawyer, "Not a single American consumer complained."