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Brigitte Bardot's Extraordinary Life: Husbands, Lovers And Suicide Attempts

File : French actress Brigitte Bardot and her husband Bernard D'Ormale during the closing ceremony of the 6th Festival for the TV fiction in Saint-Tropez on September 18, 2004. Sixties sex bomb Brigitte Bardot has had a life as epic as her fame and with the drama of her films. She had more than 100 lovers, including women. She also tried to kill herself at least four times, the same number of husbands she has had, according to a new book on the French actress, model and chanteuse. Film critic Ginette Vincendeau delves into Bardot's career and life, including her four marriages, her decision to get out elegantly and retire at a young age, and most notably, her unforgettable performances in Le Mepris, Les Femmes, and Les Petroleuses. In addition to stunning photos of Bardot in her iconic roles, Brigitte Bardot: The Life, The Legend, The Movie includes 15 facsimiles of posters and other documents. Photo by Giancarlo Gorassini/ABACA.

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Hamas Releases The Bodies Of Four Israeli Hostages

A Palestinian militant group Hamas fighter and a member of the Red Cross sign documents on stage next to the coffins of the four Israeli hostages during the handing them over to the Red Cross in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza on February 20, 2025. Hamas handed over on February 20 coffins believed to contain the bodies of four Israeli hostages, including those of the Bibas family who became symbols of the ordeal that has gripped Israel since the Gaza war began. Photo by Abood Abusalama/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Hamas Releases The Bodies Of Four Israeli Hostages

A Palestinian militant group Hamas fighter and a member of the Red Cross sign documents on stage next to the coffins of the four Israeli hostages during the handing them over to the Red Cross in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza on February 20, 2025. Hamas handed over on February 20 coffins believed to contain the bodies of four Israeli hostages, including those of the Bibas family who became symbols of the ordeal that has gripped Israel since the Gaza war began. Photo by Abood Abusalama/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Hamas Releases The Bodies Of Four Israeli Hostages

A Palestinian militant group Hamas fighter and a member of the Red Cross sign documents on stage next to the coffins of the four Israeli hostages during the handing them over to the Red Cross in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza on February 20, 2025. Hamas handed over on February 20 coffins believed to contain the bodies of four Israeli hostages, including those of the Bibas family who became symbols of the ordeal that has gripped Israel since the Gaza war began. Photo by Abood Abusalama/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Finland - Russia - Salla border station - migrants

Finnish Border Guards check the documents of the arriving migrants at the international border crossing at Salla, northern Finland, on November 22, 2023. Most migrants are now arriving to the northern border stations between Finland and Russia since on Saturday Finland closed four southernmost crossing points on its eastern border because of flow of third country migrants via Russia. LEHTIKUVA / JUSSI NUKARI - FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. (Credit:Jussi Nukari/Lehtikuva/Kyodo News Images)

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Finland - Russia - Salla border station - migrants

Finnish border guards check the documents of migrants at the international border crossing at Salla, Finnish Lapland on Tuesday, 21st November, 2023. Most migrants are now arriving to the northern border stations between Finland and Russia since on Saturday Finland closed four southernmost crossing points on its eastern border because of flow of third country migrants via Russia. LEHTIKUVA / JUSSI NUKARI - FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. (Credit:Jussi Nukari/Lehtikuva/Kyodo News Images)

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U.S. eavesdrops on UN secretary-general: Washington Post

STORY: U.S. eavesdrops on UN secretary-general: Washington Post DATELINE: April 19, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:02 LOCATION: Washington, D.C. CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. Various of exterior of the White House 2. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addressing UN Security Council meeting (file) 3. Various of exterior of the UN headquarters in New York STORYLINE: The United States eavesdropped on conversations of the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and other UN officials, according to a report by The Washington Post citing leaked classified intelligence documents the newspaper obtained. Guterres expressed to UN officials and world leaders his "outrage" over being denied an opportunity to visit Ethiopia's war-torn Tigray region, The Post said in a Monday report, citing four documents, two of them previously unreported. Guterres, according to one dated Feb. 17 and seen by The Post, wanted to confront Ethiopian UN Representative Taye Atske Selassie Amde as the country's foreign minister, Demeke

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African leaders agree on operational strategy to fight al-Shabab in Somalia

STORY: African leaders agree on operational strategy to fight al-Shabab in Somalia DATELINE: Feb. 2, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:34 LOCATION: Mogadishu CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the summit venue 2. various of leaders talking 3. various of leaders signing documents STORYLINE: Four African leaders on Wednesday resolved to jointly plan a decisive operational strategy against al-Shabab and mobilize regional support for timely, decisive operations against the extremists in Somalia. Presidents Hassan Sheikh Mohamud of Somalia, William Ruto of Kenya, Djibouti's Ismail Omar Guelleh and Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali said well-equipped security personnel is in a better position to fight the al-Shabab extremists. In a communique issued in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, after a day-long summit, the leaders said that they have decided to establish a joint operations mechanism that coordinates the operations' holistic capabilities and multipliers to deter and defeat the enemy. They appealed to

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Victims, Mitsui settle fight over cadmium pollution

TOYAMA, Japan - Kunihiro Takagi (R), leader of a sufferers' group, and Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co. President Sadao Senda shake hands, holding documents of agreement, in Toyama, Japan, on Dec. 17, 2013. The compensation issue over one of Japan's four major pollution-caused disease cases reached a complete settlement, as sufferers of cadmium poisoning, known as "Itai-Itai Disease," and the company responsible signed an agreement on it.

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Japan, Taiwan sign 4 MOUs with eye to eventual FTA

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Mitsuo Ohashi (L), chairman of the Japan Interchange Association, and Lee Chia-chin, chairman of Taiwan's East Asian Relations Commission, shake hands at a hotel in Taipei on Nov. 20, 2014, after signing four memoranda of understanding. The signing of the four documents is expected to move one more step toward a full-fledged free trade agreement.

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People's New Party joins DPJ in upper house grouping

TOKYO, Japan - Ichiro Ozawa (R), president of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan, and Tamisuke Watanuki (L), head of the tiny People's New Party, sign documents for their parties to tie up in the House of Councillors, with the PNP's four members joining the DPJ-led largest political group in the chamber.

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(3)Aides to LDP Diet member Sakai held over undeclared donations

TOKYO, Japan - Takanori Sakai (R), a House of Representatives member from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, speaks to Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda in the Diet on Mrch 4 after two of his aides were arrested on suspicion of failing to list in official documents donations worth more than 10 million yen a year for four to five years until around 2001.

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(1)Aides to LDP Diet member Sakai held over undeclared donations

TOKYO, Japan - Officials from the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office enter the home of Aki Shionoya, a state-paid policy secretary of Takanori Sakai, a ruling Liberal Democratic Party member of the House of Representatives, in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward on March 4. Shionoya and another aide to Sakai were arrested on suspicion of failing to list in official documents donations worth more than 10 million yen a year for four to five years until around 2001.

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Opposition leaders to call for Mori's resignation

TOKYO, Japan - The leaders of four main opposition parties sign documents Feb. 21 on their agreement to seek a 510 billion yen reduction in the government-sponsored budget for fiscal 2001. (From L to R) Social Democratic Party leader Takako Doi, Liberal Party leader Ichiro Ozawa, Democratic Party of Japan leader Yukio Hatoyama and Japanese Communist Party leader Kazuo Shii. The leaders also agreed to call for embattled Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori's resignation.

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'Animals' lose Kagoshima Pref. eco lawsuit

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Hiroaki Sono, one of the plaintiffs who filed a suit calling for a court order to halt the construction of golf courses on Amami-Ohima Island, holds a press conference in Kagoshima, southwestern Japan, on Jan. 22 after the Kagoshima District Court ruled against them. The suit, filed in 1995, drew public attention because four of the plaintiffs were listed as an Amami rabbit, a jay, a thrush and an Amami woodcock. The animal names on the official documents were followed by ''known as'' and the plaintiffs' names.

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3 men shoot, rob bank truck in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Police investigate a site in Tokyo's Ueno where three gunmen stole four bags from a bank truck Dec. 19. The three fired several shots and wounded a security guard in the arm. They fled the scene after taking the bags, which contained documents belonging to a company affiliated with Tokai Bank. The truck was loaded with business documents to be delivered to its affiliate. It is also used to deliver cash to bank branches.

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People's New Party joins DPJ in upper house grouping

TOKYO, Japan - Ichiro Ozawa (R), president of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan, and Tamisuke Watanuki (L), head of the tiny People's New Party, sign documents for their parties to tie up in the House of Councillors, with the PNP's four members joining the DPJ-led largest political group in the chamber. (Kyodo)

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Aides to LDP Diet member Sakai held over undeclared donations

TOKYO, Japan - Officials from the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office enter the home of Aki Shionoya, a state-paid policy secretary of Takanori Sakai, a ruling Liberal Democratic Party member of the House of Representatives, in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward on March 4. Shionoya and another aide to Sakai were arrested on suspicion of failing to list in official documents donations worth more than 10 million yen a year for four to five years until around 2001. (Kyodo)

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Wife of 1970 JAL hijacker gets 2 yrs over passport violation

TOKYO, Japan - Emiko Akagi (file photo), the wife of Shiro Akagi, a former member of the Red Army Faction group that hijacked a Japan Airlines passenger plane in 1970, was sentenced to two years in prison, suspended for four years, by the Tokyo District Court on Oct. 15. Akagi was charged with violating the passport law and forging documents. (Kyodo)

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(2)Aides to LDP Diet member Sakai held over undeclared donations

TOKYO, Japan - Aki Shionoya (photo), a state-paid policy secretary of Takanori Sakai, a House of Representatives member from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, and another Sakai aide were arrested by prosecutors on March 4 on suspicion of failing to list in official documents donations worth more than 10 million yen a year for four to five years until around 2001. (Kyodo)

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Sit-in protest by lawyers seeking retrial of death-row inmates

A group of Chinese lawyers continue their protest on May 27, 2015, the 17th day since it began, in front of the higher people's court in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China, demanding the disclosure of documents in the trials of four men sentenced to death for the 2000 murders of two persons. The lawyers are appealing for a retrial. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sit-in protest by lawyers seeking retrial of death-row inmates

A group of Chinese lawyers continue their protest on May 26, 2015, the 16th day since it began, in front of the higher people's court in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China, demanding the disclosure of documents in the trials of four men sentenced to death for the 2000 murders of two persons. The lawyers are appealing for a retrial. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's royal couple visit pollution disease museum in Toyama

Emperor Akihito (L) and Empress Michiko visit on Oct. 24, 2015, the Toyama Prefectural Itai-itai Disease Museum in Toyama, central Japan, exhibiting documents about one of Japan's four major pollution-tied diseases caused by factory-released cadmium on residents in the prefecture's Jinzu River basin. (Pool Photo Kyodo News) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Protesting Chinese lawyer stands in front of courthouse

Chinese lawyer Zhang Weiyu continues his protest in the rain on May 27, 2015, in front of a courthouse in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China, demanding the disclosure of documents in the trials of four men sentenced to death for the murders of two people in 2000. The lawyer's group decided on May 30 to halt their sit-in protest to prepare the environment for dialogue. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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'Animals' lose Kagoshima Pref. eco lawsuit

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Hiroaki Sono, one of the plaintiffs who filed a suit calling for a court order to halt the construction of golf courses on Amami-Ohima Island, holds a press conference in Kagoshima, southwestern Japan, on Jan. 22 after the Kagoshima District Court ruled against them. The suit, filed in 1995, drew public attention because four of the plaintiffs were listed as an Amami rabbit, a jay, a thrush and an Amami woodcock. The animal names on the official documents were followed by ''known as'' and the plaintiffs' names.

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(3)Aides to LDP Diet member Sakai held over undeclared donations

TOKYO, Japan - Takanori Sakai (R), a House of Representatives member from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, speaks to Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda in the Diet on Mrch 4 after two of his aides were arrested on suspicion of failing to list in official documents donations worth more than 10 million yen a year for four to five years until around 2001. (Kyodo)

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3 men shoot, rob bank truck in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Police investigate a site in Tokyo's Ueno where three gunmen stole four bags from a bank truck Dec. 19. The three fired several shots and wounded a security guard in the arm. They fled the scene after taking the bags, which contained documents belonging to a company affiliated with Tokai Bank. The truck was loaded with business documents to be delivered to its affiliate. It is also used to deliver cash to bank branches.