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The Jon & Kate Plus 8 star took 22-year-old Hailey Glassman to St. Tropez.

French tourists are the worst in the world, coming across as bad at foreign languages, tight-fisted and arrogant, according to a survey of 4,500 hotel owners across the world.

Thomas Voeckler of France has claimed a solo victory in the fifth stage of the Tour de France, a 122-mile ride from Le Cap d’Agde to Perpignan.

The Air France plane that crashed last month with 228 people aboard "did not break up or become destroyed in flight," the French air investigation agency announced today.

President Nicolas Sarkozy lashed out Monday at the practice of wearing the Muslim burqa, insisting the full-body religious gown is a sign of the "debasement" of women and that it won't be welcome in France.

French investigators say more than 400 pieces of Flight 447 have been recovered in the Atlantic.

Brazilian divers have recovered the distinctive red- and blue-striped stabilizer from the tail of the Air France jetliner that crashed in the Atlantic Ocean.

French and Brazilian search teams have found no debris confirmed to have come from the Airbus A330 that vanished over the Atlantic, officials said today.

The second-seeded Roger Federer conquered his own evident nerves and Tommy Haas’s still-evident talent to advance on Monday.

Michael Phelps was beaten again at the Charlotte UltraSwim on Sunday night, losing to Frederick Bousquet of France in the 100-meter freestyle.