Police surrounded a supermarket in southern France on Friday as a deadly hostage-taking situation played out after the shooting of a police officer.

Centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right populist Marine Le Pen advanced Sunday to a runoff in France’s presidential election, remaking the country’s political system and setting up a showdown over its participation in the European Union. 

Concerns about the health of Queen Elizabeth II returned Sunday when she missed a New Year’s Day church service. 

France is reeling from another large-scale terror attack. This time it was on Bastille Day, the national holiday that celebrates democracy -- a value at the very heart of French society. 

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) claimed responsibility for the attacks, saying its extremists opened fire in the airport and "several of them" detonated suicide belts.

A 26-year-old American man who surrendered Monday after fighting with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) for several months said he was "not thinking straight" when he left the U.S. to join the terror group.

French prosecutors said Thursday that the man suspected of planning the Friday night Paris attacks that left 129 people dead last week was killed in a raid north of the French capital on Wednesday morning.