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Monday February 4, 2008

In brief: hackers start online war with Cruise

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Hackers have launched an online war against the Church of Scientology in response to the controversial removal from YouTube of the Tom Cruise (pictured) promotional clip: a manipulation of Google has resulted in the website being the first result returned by the search engine when users type in the phrase 'dangerous cult'... Spanish spectators at the Montmelo circuit reportedly hurled racist insults at Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton, who was testing his car there; Hamilton became a hate figure in Spain after a series of clashes with Spanish team-mate Fernando Alonso last season... Cinemagoers have complained to advertising regulators over Johnny Depp's latest film Sweeney Todd, saying that they did not realise it was a musical... Prince Andrew is under fire for using taxpayers' money to fund a £100,000 tour of the United States by private jet, despite selling his former home Sunninghill Park - which the Queen gave him as a wedding present - for £15m… Gordon Ramsay is to launch a UK-wide franchise of £30-a-head restaurants devoted to classic British food like lamb stew and grilled mackerel... London auction houses Sotheby's and Christie's are set to sell works by Francis Bacon, Picasso, Andy Warhol and Cezanne over the next few weeks... Doctors are expected to extend Britney Spears' involuntary three-day stay in a psychiatric ward for another two weeks after the troubled 26-year-old singer was checked into hospital by her father for bipolar disorder... Artist Tracey Emin has denied copying an advertising agency's campaign for a power company with her proposed bronze sculpture of four meerkats for Trafalgar Square's empty fourth plinth...

LAST UPDATED 11:58 AM, FEBRUARY 4, 2008
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