There were no survivors of the 110-passenger Air Algerie flight that crashed in Mali this week, French president Francois Hollande said today. Nearly half of the plane's passengers were French nationals.

It's Bastille Day today, which means that the French are given one (and only one) day to bogart our red, white, and blue colors to celebrate the 1789 storming of the Bastille prison. Celebrate at your leisure with France's great cheeses, fine wines, and mediocre rap music. But if you're looking for something more—some bigger way to identify with French culture outside of really loving that one Juliette Binoche movie you slept through on an airplane—might I suggest an imagined trip to the newly opened Little Prince Theme Park?

Nicolas Sarkozy, the former president of France, was charged by prosecutors Wednesday "with corruption and influence peddling in a criminal investigation," the AFP reports. Sarkozy was detained earlier today by anti-corruption police and questioned for 15 hours.

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was detained by anti-corruption police for questioning on Tuesday. The investigators are attempting to determine whether or not he used a magistrate as an informant during judicial proceedings against him.

Lovebird visitors to the Pont des Arts, a footbridge in Paris, typically mark the occasion by fixing a padlock to its handrail and tossing the key into the Seine to symbolize their eternal devotion. Yesterday evening, police evacuated the bridge after a 2.4-meter section of railing collapsed under the weight of their adoration.

French officials admitted this week that they may not have taken the most thorough measurements before writing a $20 billion check.

In case you're not familiar, La meilleure Boulangerie de France is a French television program about a cat that runs at full speed into a glass door. There's also a subplot about competitive baking, but it's considered much less popular and interesting.

Unions and employers in France have come to an agreement that employees will no longer check their work-related email outside of work hours. The deal—which is legally binding—upholds the spirit of the 35-hour work week that France implemented in 1999.

You don't really need context to enjoy a dozen sheep (and one sheepdog) running through the halls of the Louvre, but here it is anyway.

The French press lit up in a blaze of fiery glory on Monday with rumors that the President of the United States, Beyoncé, is having an affair with the "President" of the United States, Barack Obama.

[Firemen take pictures of the Spanish cargo ship "Luno," which slammed into a jetty in choppy Atlantic Ocean waters and broke in two off southwestern France on Thursday. The ship had been heading to a nearby port to load up with cargo when its engine failed and the rough waves carried it into the jetty. Image via Bob Edme/AP.]

A 24-year-old French man was caught on video hurling a defenseless ginger kitten at the side of an apartment building. The five-month-old feline, named Oscar, survived with only a broken leg, but Farid Ghilas faced two years in prison and a $40,000 fine. "I don't know whose idea it was to film it," he said.

As was speculated in Sky News two weeks ago, French president François Hollande has ended his relationship with political journalist and first lady Valérie Trieweiler, according to a statement he made to Agence France Presse. The news comes after French tabloid Closer published several pages of photos of the president leaving the house of his supposed mistress, actress Julie Gayet.

There are a couple of ways to react when you learn that the factory where you work is closing, and you and your 1,172 colleagues will soon be jobless. One is to beef up that LinkedIn profile. Another is to rage against the machine.

Last weekend, unemployment benefits ran out for 1.3 million Americans who have been out of work more than six months. This week, 13 states will raise their minimum wage. As 2013 draws to a close, the class war rages on. At least one nation on earth has a bold idea about what to do

Taking a firm stand against discourteous customers, one coffeehouse has decided to charge its patrons based on how polite they are to employees.

Model-turned-weather-presenter Doria Tillier made a promise to the million of viewers who tune to watch her, um, forecast the weather every evening: If France qualifies for the World Cup, she'll do her report naked.

A manhunt is underway in Paris for a gunman who wounded one person inside the offices of a French newspaper before taking a hostage and opening fire outside of a bank.

A dull night out at a local discotheque in Bordeaux, France, turned into an unforgettable Hangover-esque misadventure for five drunk friends who stole a circus llama and proceeded to take it on an epic streetcar joyride.

On Tuesday afternoon, U.S. intelligence officials did their best to disprove reports that the NSA monitored more than 170 million phone calls in France, Spain, and other European countries last year. NSA head Gen. Keith Alexander called the reports "completely false" and said the information was provided to the NSA by the intelligence agencies in each country.