PARIS, June 3 (UPI) -- Former movie star Brigitte Bardot, a well-known animal rights activist, has been fined $23,000 by a French court for inciting racial hatred.

PARIS, April 16 (UPI) -- Brigitte Bardot, the French movie actress turned animal rights activist, says she is being harassed by anti-racism groups.

NEW YORK, April 11 (UPI) -- A nude photo of Carla Bruni, the model-cum-French first lady, sold for $91,000 at auction at Christie's in New York, the auction house said.

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LONDON, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Prices for contemporary art were riding high at art auctions in London, as a portrait painted by Francis Bacon in the 1950s sold for $27.3 million.

MADRID, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- The fiance of Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida said he called off their wedding because of the media attention, not their age difference.

TORONTO, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- Madonna topped Marilyn Monroe in a Canadian newspaper's list of the 50 greatest sex symbols.

Today is Thursday, Sept. 28, the 271st day of 2006 with 94 to follow.

HUNTSVILLE, Texas, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- Texas has executed its 21st inmate, 43-year-old Farley Matchett, who was convicted of killing two people in a 3-day, crack cocaine-fueled crime spree in 1991. Matchett died by lethal injection in Huntsville Tuesday evening after apologizing to the familie