New York, Feb 16 : Leonardo DiCaprio's girlfriend Bar Refaeli won't be tying the knot with her superstar beau, if he doesn't agree to her father's demand and convert to Judaism, say reports.

According to Aaron Braunstein, who will be promoting the Brawl at the Wall boxing match between Israeli and Palestinian fighters on July 4, Bar's dad is adamant that Leo will be eligible to be his son-in-law only if he'd embrace their faith.

"He told me that if Leo doesn't convert to Judaism, there will be no marriage," the New York Daily News quoted Braunstein as saying, after he saw Bar's dad in Jerusalem last week.

The `Titanic' star has been dating the Israeli supermodel since 2005.

New York, Feb. 16 : British novelist Ian McEwan has revealed that he gave Indian-born Salman Rushdie shelter in his Cotswold cottage after Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against the latter twenty years ago.

McEwan reveals that Rushdie and he hid away shortly after the fatwa was issued on February 16, 2009 14, 1989.

This intimate detail is contained in a long profile of McEwan published in next week''s issue of the New Yorker, The Guardian reports.

Written by an editor at the magazine, Daniel Zalewski, the profile explores McEwan''s growing commitment to science and rationality as a factor, alongside the Rushdie affair, behind the controversy over Islamic fundamentalism in which he later became embroiled.

New York, Feb. 16: A federal transportation safety official has said that before the Continental Connection commuter flight crashed near Buffalo Niagara International Airport, killing 50, last Thursday, it was flying on autopilot.

The Washington Post quoted National Transportation Safety Board member Steven R. Chealander as saying that in the wake of the crash and the determination of its cause, the agency has sought tighter federal regulations to require pilots to disengage automatic flying systems in icy weather.

New York  - A remake of the 1980 horror classic Friday the 13th turned the luck of the day around by debuting at the top of the North American box office over the weekend.

The slasher film featuring the hockey-masked Jason Voorhees character took in 42.2 million dollars from Friday to Sunday in the United States and Canada, according to studio estimates released Sunday.

Dropping out of the top spot and into second place in its second weekend of release was He's Just Not That Into You with 19.6 million dollars.

New York, Feb 16: English actress Kate Winslet has revealed that while studying illiterate people for her role as a Nazi in the film `The Reader', she realised that they were ashamed of themselves and could not maintain a relationship.

Winslet revealed that the people she studied were so mortified by their weaknesses that they were not able to have emotions.

"None of the people I worked with were married," the New York Daily News quoted her as saying.

New York, Feb 15: Lindsay Lohan''s mum Dina has rubbished reports about her tax problems as `ridiculous' - accusing her ex-husband of leaking the story to the press.

The `Mean Girls' star''s mum is said to owe 11,485.74 dollars in property taxes to Nassau County.

If she fails to pay the bill, the tax lien - a security interest granted on property to secure debt repayment - reportedly placed against her home will go up for auction next week.

Lohan has refused to confirm the news, but has blasted the reports as `ridiculous'.