Spears loses child visitation rights

A court has ordered that Britney Spears' two children will be placed under the sole care of her ex-husband Kevin Federline.

Court commissioner Scott Gordon suspended Spears' visitation rights until "further order of the court" at a hearing which took place in Los Angeles yesterday. Another hearing has been scheduled for January 14.

The decision came in the aftermath of a custody dispute at Spears' home, which resulted in the singer being hospitalised. She currently remains in hospital and is believed to be undergoing psychological tests.

Speaking outside court yesterday, Federline's lawyer Mark Vincent Kaplan insisted that there were "no winners" in the situation. "I am not happy about anything that has happened recently," he told reporters.

Spears lost custody of Sean Preston and Jayden James in October last year, but she had been given limited access to her two sons.

Britney's mother Lynne Spears has refused to comment directly on her daughter's condition. In a phone call to Access Hollywood, she pleaded: "Just say prayers."