In brief: Madonna likens John McCain to Adolf Hitler

Madonna, 50, has angered Senator John McCain by apparently linking him to Adolf Hitler during her concert at Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium on Saturday. Images of Hitler, Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwe president, and McCain flashed up, along with scenes of global warming and devastation, on a screen behind the performer at the start of the song Get Stupid. Tucker Bounds, the Republican nominee's campaign spokesman, said: "The comparisons are outrageous, unacceptable and crudely divisive all at the same time"............ Silvio Berlusconi has spent his summer holidays in Sardinia recording a collection of Neapolitan love songs with his favourite singer and guitarist, Mariano Apicella. The Italian PM has written the lyrics to 14 ditties; but despite having worked as a crooner on cruise ships to pay his way through university, he does not sing on any of the recordings............Warner Bros have launched an action against an Indian film company over the title of an upcoming movie, which they believe is a little too close to their great money-spinner, the multiple adaptations of J K Rowling's Harry Potter books. The movie in question is called Hari Puttar - A Comedy Of Terrors. But Munish Purii, of Mirchi Movies, is not giving up without a fight. He told the Hollywood Reporter: "In my opinion, I don’t think our title has any similarity or links with Harry Potter"........Salman Rushdie and his former wife Elizabeth West are to be reunited at the High Court today to hear an official statement from lawyers representing one of the writer’s former Special Branch bodyguards, Ron Evans. In a memoir written about his time by Rushdie’s side, Evans had claimed West had married Rushdie for his money, a claim he now accepts to be untrue......... Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver and his ilk have been accused of causing an "environmental catastrophe" by fuelling an over-demand for olive oil, according to the latest issue of the Ecologist magazine.........