New York, Jan 3: Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson started off their New Year with a tearful spat at the Miami airport.

According to TMZ. com, the squabble started in the American Airlines Admirals Club.

The argument left the `Mean Girls' star in such an emotional state that flight attendants on the plane "asked her whether she''d like to disembark."

The duo were headed back to Los Angeles after spending New Year''s in Miami, where Ronson had a DJ gig at South Beach club Mansion, reports the New York Daily News.

This is the latest in a string of public fights for the duo, who also had an epic confrontation at Ronson''s Hollywood Hills home just before Christmas, waking the neighbors at

London, Jan 3: French actress Isabelle Huppert, who has served twice as a jury member at the Cannes Film Festival, has now been appointed as the president of the jury for 2009.

Huppert, 55, who will be the fourth woman to head the committee, succeeding actor Sean Penn, is "very glad and very proud" to be part of the annual event in May.

"I've had a long relationship with Cannes and this next meeting will definitely seal my love for the festival and thus for global cinema," the Daily Express quoted her as saying.

Huppert had won the prize for Best Actress at the festival in 1978 for Violette Noziere and for The Piano Teacher in 2001.

London, Jan 3: A Muslim woman bank manager has claimed that her bosses accused her of having sex with a client, and suggested that cleaning was women's work. She has launched a sex discrimination claim against Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) for up to one million pounds.

Mona Awad, a married 29-year-old corporate manager at the company, has accused the bank and two former senior male bosses of sex, race and religious discrimination.

Mona, a corporate bank manager at HBOS plc in Nottingham, alleged that she became a victim of bullying, sexist and racist behaviour after starting work at the bank in April 2007, The Telegraph reports.

Wellington, January 3 : A 70-year-old American animal communicator insists that animals do talk, and that horses are his favourite because they are straight talkers.

Bill Northern, who has been visiting New Zealand from the U. S. since 1989, even says that dogs can be too politically correct because they do not like to hurt people's

feelings.

He, however, prefers not to deal with felines because he thinks that cats are fibbers and will say anything to get their way.

"I don''t talk to plants because I don''t have the patience," stuff. co. nz quoted him as saying.

Bill claims that all animals communicate with him in English, irrespective of which country they are in.

London, Jan 3 : Six out of 10 US servicemen are uncertain or pessimistic about President-elect Barack Obama becoming their Commander-in-Chief.

The findings of a survey for the Military Times indicate that Obama, who never served in the military, has some work to do to win the esteem of servicemen and women, who regularly give President George W. Bush a rousing welcome.

When asked who has their best interests at heart, a higher percentage of respondents picked Bush than Obama, though the outgoing president has lost ground over time, The Telegraph reports.

About half of the respondents said that Bush had their best interests at heart this year, the same percentage as last year, but a decline from 69 per cent in 2004.

London, January 3: Singer Beyonce Knowles has reportedly left fellow artist Janet Jackson fuming after referring that the latter's family did not come from an upper class background.

The leading R&B lady seemed to have taken a dig on Jackson family by contrasting her wealthy upbringing against that of Janet, who comes from the working class area of Gary, Indiana.

"I grew up upper class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar," the Daily Express quoted Beyonce as telling Elle magazine in a recent interview.

"We''re African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we''re like the Jacksons - but I didn''t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation," she added.