Clockwise from top left: butter from Parma, Italy; Vermont cultured butter; Beurre d'Isigny, France; black truffle butter; sea-salted butter from France; and Brookford Farm uncultured butter from Rollinsford, N.H. (Associated Press)
Jose Manuel Barroso (foreground), president of the executive European Commission, speaks to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, on Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011. (AP Photo)
French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, seen earlier this month with President Nicolas Sarkozy, says her pregnancy is a nonstory to the people of France. "There isn't much to say," Mrs. Bruni-Sarkozy said. "So many women are expecting children and giving birth, and it's so uninteresting for French people." (Associated Press)
Nick Calathes of Greece (right) releases a shot over France's Nicolas Batum at the EuroBasket tournament in Kaunas, Lithuania. (Associated Press)
British Prime Minister David Cameron (center) and French President Nicolas Sarkozy (right) meet patients at the Tripoli Medical Center in Tripoli, Libya, on Sept. 15, 2011. (Associated Press)
French Environment Minister Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet speaks Monday at a press conference at the nuclear site of Marcoule in southern France, where one person died in an explosion. The site treats nuclear waste. (Associated Press)
Rescuers and medics land by helicopter at a nuclear site in Marcoule, France, on Monday, Sept. 12, 2011, after an explosion at a plant that treats nuclear waste. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)
A Port Authority police officer shares a light moment with children visiting from France at commuter train station near ground zero Saturday, Sept. 10, 2011, in New York. Heavily armed police remained a visible presence around New York on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
International Monetary Fund (IMF) managing director Christine Lagarde, left, talks with Tunisian Finance Minister Jelloul Ayed during the group photo at the Deauville partnership meeting in Marseille, southern France, Saturday, Sept.10, 2011. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)
