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The sixties sex symbol said that Republican John McCain's running mate was "disconcertingly stupid" and that she hoped she would lose the November 4 presidential elections. Referring to Mrs Palin's now famous self-portrait as a "pitbull with lipstick", Mrs Bardot – who runs an animal rights foundation – said: "I know dogs well and I can assure you that no pitbull, no dog, nor any other animal is as dangerous as you are." "I hope you lose these elections because that would be a victory for the world," she went on. "By denying the responsibility of man in global warming,...

PARIS (Reuters) - French former film star Brigitte Bardot went on trial on Tuesday for insulting Muslims, the fifth time she has faced the charge of "inciting racial hatred" over her controversial remarks about Islam and its followers. Prosecutors asked that the Paris court hand the 73-year-old former sex symbol a two-month suspended prison sentence and fine her 15,000 euros ($23,760) for saying the Muslim community was "destroying our country and imposing its acts". Since retiring from the film industry in the 1970s, Bardot has become a prominent animal rights activist but she has also courted controversy by denouncing Muslim...

PARIS (AFP) - Former French actress Brigitte Bardot was fined 5,000 euros (6,000 dollars) by a Paris court for writing a book in which she declared disgust with her country's tolerance of Islam. The judgement added to a number of previous decisions which have found the 69-year-old of provoking racial hatred in her expression of right-wing, xenophobic views. Bardot's publisher, Rocher, was also fined 5,000 euros for last year bringing out the book, "Un Cri Dans le Silence" (A Cry in the Silence). Bardot, who lives in the French Riviera town of Saint-Tropez, was not present for the verdict. Two...

Bardot protests against dog-eating in South Korea Brigitte Bardot has sent a protest letter to South Koreans over their country's dog-eating culture. She says it is absurd to try to justify it. About three million of South Korea's 46 million people are believed to eat dog meat as a delicacy. Bardot's open letter to the people of South Korea was posted on her animal protection foundation's website. "Defending and justifying this brutality in the name of culture is an absurdity," she says. She said her Brigitte Bardot Foundation has received nearly a thousand insulting and threatening messages about its campaign....