Paris police arrested a man who lit a cigarette from the Arc de Triomphe’s eternal flame. Here’s what happened and what’s ...

A video showed a man using the war memorial to light up on Monday, sparking outrage from French government officials.

A homeless man who "defied" a war memorial by stepping over the guard rail to light a cigarette on the flame now faces ...

French police were on Wednesday considering whether to charge a man who was arrested for lighting a cigarette using the ...

A video showing the man casually walking across the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier beneath the Arc de Triomphe set off outrage ...

A Moroccan immigrant in Paris faces legal trouble and potential deportation after igniting his cigarette from the eternal ...

It seems that almost every week there is a report of a tourist or brainless idiot doing something really stupid ...

WASHINGTON D.C. – An eternal flame that began burning in Paris more than 100 years ago made its way to the U.S. in honor of the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion that became a major turning ...

Kennedy Eternal Flame Heads to Ireland The Irish Army takes fire from JFK's Arlington Memorial to his ancestral home. June 18, 2013 -- The John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame generated new light today.

Least of all, the flame itself, which -- try as it might -- wasn't exactly eternal. "If you were assigned to the eternal flame, you had to have a lighter in your pocket," said Morris.

Even those of us who live 4900 miles away from the place now known as ground zero. Rev. Dan Chun, the master of ceremonies, says, "we are here to light an eternal flame, in remembrance.