Eleanor Beardsley

Under the ISIS model in Syria, "It's become a sort of family jihad," says a French journalist. "Couples go together, sharing a common project. And the role women play is as strong as that of men."

After suffering a lack of visitors since the terrorist attacks in Paris, the Normandy Tank Museum is closing. Dozens of historic armored vehicles have been auctioned off at record prices.

The camp has grown to 9,000 people. Calais residents oppose it and want it shut down for good. But when one protester goes there for the first time, she is moved and surprised by what she sees.

Eight people are now under arrest in France, after what security officials say was an attempt to create an explosion in central Paris.

French anti-terrorist officers are questioning a couple after discovering a suspicious car in Paris. Police say they found the abandoned vehicle packed with gas cylinders near Notre Dame Cathedral.

The full-body swimsuit is now part of the French presidential campaign. Former President Nicolas Sarkozy, who supports the burkini bans, is making "national identity" key to his re-election message.

Hundreds of French truck drivers block a highway near the city of Calais to protest the country's handling of the migrant crisis. A controversial migrant camp called "The Jungle" is nearby.

Five days after the deadly earthquake hit central Italy, even places that weren't damaged are feeling the economic and psychological aftershocks. Tourists who were in Italy at the time of the temblor volunteered to help.

Aftershocks continue to rattle the region in central Italy that's still digging out after a midweek earthquake killed more than 260 people. The region is Europe's most quake-prone, and residents are proving resilient.

Nearly 48 hours after an earthquake devastated many hill towns in central Italy, survivors are in need of food, lodging and care. The quake killed more than 240 people.

Searchers continue to go through piles of rock and sand that were once buildings. An Italian government agency says while people are still being pulled from the debris, the death toll is up to 247.

In France, a number of mayors in beach towns have banned the body and head-covering bathing suit worn by Muslim women known as the burkini. Muslims call it Islamophobia.

Unprecedented numbers of political prisoners in Egypt's jails could lead to a supersized version of an old problem: inmates becoming radicalized. "In jail, they become ISIS," says a former prisoner.

In a tiny shop from a bygone era, Jacques Guillaume gets calls about more than razors because there's nobody to fix things anymore. "Today, manual work like this is passé and obsolete," he says.

As the French go on their August vacations this year, nothing is as it used to be. Even a scenic Normandy beach town, often featured in paintings by the Impressionists, is on its guard.

French teens smoke at a much higher rate than their American counterparts. The French health minister is trying to remove the glamour and raise the price.

The French city of Lille has cancelled its annual flea market — an event that usually attracts millions of visitors and which dates from medieval times — because of security concerns.

Descendants of Jews who escaped Nazi-occupied France recently gathered to honor Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a Portuguese diplomat who issued some 30,000 visas to Jews and others before he was recalled.

In France, most people in Nice know that their city is a hotbed of jihadism. More than 100 people have left Nice — the most of any city in France — to fight with ISIS in Syria and Iraq.

Authorities are piecing together details on the suspect who killed more than 84 people with a 20-ton truck. At the same time, questions persist about security.