President "Bling Bling" has been replaced by "Mr. Normal." Francois Hollande has won France's presidential runoff, beating Nicolas Sarkozy. “François Hollande is the president of the republic, he must be respected,” Sarkozy said in a concession speech. “I want to wish him good luck in the midst of these tests.” Sarkozy then presumably jumped into a Bentley convertible waiting for him with his wife Carla Bruni and their daughter before screaming "Au revoir, suckers!" more ›

Was Dominique Strauss-Kahn framed by Nicolas Sarkozy's UMP party? Journalist Edward Jay Epstein sure seems to think so, and lays out several "mysteries" in the New York Review Of Books surrounding the downfall of the man who many believed would be the next president of France. more ›

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the head of the International Monetary Fund, was taken off an Air France plane about to leave JFK Airport and arrested for allegedly attacking a hotel maid at the Sofitel in Times Square. Sources tell the Daily News and NY Post that earlier in the day, Strauss-Kahn allegedly emerged from a bathroom naked, crept up on the maid and forced her to perform oral sex on him. more ›

At what point are you such a New Yorker that your other identities stop counting? A decade? When you've lived here long enough to know the last three tenants in that shop on the corner? We ask because that seems to be at the heart of a divorce case currently proceeding in Manhattan court. more ›

During President Obama's visit to France, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said his country "would accept a prisoner from Guantanamo Bay if that would facilitate the closing of the controversial detention center where terrorist suspects are held," the AP reports. European governments have wanted Guantanamo Bay to close, but their commitment to finding places (like their own countries) for the detainees is unclear. Obama, who said, "I made the decision to close Guantanamo because I do not think it makes America safer," appreciated that Sarkozy was "being good to his word." Related: Rep. Peter King doesn't want any Gitmo detainees in New York and Miss Universe Dayana Mendoza visited the prison camp and declared it "fun" and "calm and beautiful." more ›

Sure, vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin is the woman all the media is following this week in NYC, but Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is a close second. The supermodel-turned-First Lady of France has full schedule this week as her husband President Nicolas Sarkozy attends the United Nations General Assembly. more ›