In a separate hostage situation unfolding in France today, police have surrounded a kosher market in eastern Paris where a gunman believed to be responsible for Thursday's killing of a police officer and injuring a street sweeper has reportedly taken several hostages, including children.

A French official has confirmed to the Associated Press that Cherif and Said Kouachi have holed up inside a printing house in Dammartin-en-Goële, northeast of Paris, and have reportedly taken at least one person hostage. Police and the gunmen, accused of killing 12 people in Wednesday's Charlie Hebdo office massacre, traded fire Friday as helicopters descended on the scene.

The two main suspects in Wednesday's Charlie Hebdo killings, Said and Chérif Kouachi, were reportedly spotted Thursday robbing a gas station about 50 miles northeast of Paris.

One of the suspects in the Charlie Hebdo shooting has reportedly turned himself in to authorities without incident.

Conservatives and free marketeers across the globe are crowing at the end of France's brief flirtation with a 75% tax on very high earners. Rich people simply fled the country. Let's treat these people like the refugees that they are.

Masked gunmen wielding Kalashnikovs and a rocket launcher killed at least 12 people and injured 10 more at the Paris offices of satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday before escaping. French president François Hollande called the shooting "unquestionably a terrorist attack."

Paul McCarthy's Tree is the holiday gift that keeps on giving. First, the massive inflatable butt plug sparked right wing outrage and vandalism; then, it inspired French president Francois Hollande to pen an impassioned butt plug defense. Now, the giant butt plug is gone, but hundreds of ordinary-sized butt plugs have sprung up in its wake.

In case you're wondering, that tiger is still on the loose in France. As it turns out, though, it isn't a tiger. It's a mystery!

Beyoncé and Jay Z are allegedly planning on spending next year living in a French chateau, where they "hope to conceive their second child." Allons-y!

It's Monday, and the world is an unforgiving nightmare, so here's some schadenfreude to lighten your day: at a rally held in France by the often-topless feminist group Femen, a riot gear-clad cop totally beefed while trying apprehend the sprinting horde of bare-chested ladies.

On Saturday night, police in the south of France arrested 14 teenagers who were reportedly carrying pistols, knives, and baseball bats while dressed as evil clowns. Spooky!

Francois Hollande, President of France, has something to say to the haters about the giant inflatable butt plug that was recently removed from Paris's Place Vendome: get used to it!!!

In Place Vendome, one of Paris's beautiful historic squares, next to a 19th-century column commemorating Napoleon's glory in the Battle of Austerlitz, sits a 24-foot inflatable butt plug. Despite the city's reputation as haven for cosmopolitan artsy types, some Parisians aren't having it.

Algerian militants linked to ISIS beheaded a 55-year-old French hiker they abducted on Sunday to protest France's military campaign against ISIS in Iraq. In a gruesome video posted online, militants called the beheading a "blood message to the French government."

Vegetable farmers in Morlaix, France have taken to the streets to protest falling prices on their products, and they are not joking around. In an attempt have their cause recognized, they've begun dumping artichokes and manure everywhere and have burned down tax and insurance offices.

On the heels of a third video released by ISIS depicting the beheading of a prisoner, 26 nations and representatives from the United Nations, European Union, and Arab League have assembled in Paris to formalize a battle strategy against the militants that have seized much of northern and western Iraq. "We must not allow them to have sanctuaries," Iraqi President Fuad Masum told the conference. "We must pursue them wherever they are."

Quelle dommage! French women, known by Americans as our freewheeling sisters who let their feminist flags fly free, have stopped wanting to reveal so much of their skin while sunbathing a la plage. That's right—French beaches are becoming boob-free.

A 16-year-old girl who allegedly attempted to fly to Syria to join a militant Islamist group was arrested at an airport in Nice on Saturday, French officials say. Her parents reportedly had no idea what she was planning.

International Monetary Fund head Christine Lagarde has been placed under investigation by French magistrates for her alleged role in a long-running fraud case involving the former owner of Adidas. She has described the investigation as "totally unfounded" and plans to appeal the decision.

Two French girls, ages 15 and 17, were caught by authorities after allegedly planning to fly to Syria and become jihadis. Not much information has been released about the teens or their motives, but at face value, the case isn't unusual—French authorities say they've caught 900 citizens participating in jihad or attempting to participate in jihad.