In brief: Hamilton tires of ‘boring’ Geneva

Lewis Hamilton, the Formula 1 racing driver, has complained about his life as a tax exile in Geneva, Switzerland, which he finds "boring". He says: "I miss my friends being around. I miss coming home and having home cooking, doing my washing and all that stuff. There is hardly anyone in Geneva I really know"...Robert Redford, aged 71, is to marry his long-term girlfriend Sibylle Szaggers, who at 46 is 19 years his junior... Music mogul Lou Pearlman, who launched the careers of the boy bands the Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync, was jailed yesterday for 25 years for swindling $300m from friends, investors and major banks. It's not all bad news: his prison sentence will be reduced by one month for each $1m he returns... A manuscript setting out the manifesto for the surrealist movement, written by Andre Breton, has been sold for £2.5m at Sotheby's. The document is considered one of the seminal texts of the 20th century, having inspired Picasso, Miro, Magritte and Dali's subversive, anti bourgeois ideas... Labour MP Oona King, who now works as an advisor to Gordon Brown at Downing Street, has recorded a rap record about genocide with the soul artist JDaCosta. King raps words from Hansard - one couplet goes: "Mr Speaker, Mr Speaker, I'm instituting a debate on the international criminal court"... ·