Streisand loses privacy lawsuit

Barbra Streisand has lost an invasion-of-privacy lawsuit she brought against an environmental activist who posted an aerial photograph of her clifftop Malibu home on a Web site alongside 12,000 other pictures of the California coastline.

The singer and actress wanted the photo of her mansion removed and asked for six million pounds damages for what she said was an invasion of her privacy and use of a likeness of her property without her authorisation.