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, 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.

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, January 3: Prince Williams has taken Kate Middleton to Scotland on a surprise vacation to spend some quality time with his girlfriend, father and stepmother.

The pair, who has been romantically involved for six years, had been rumoured to be headed to the Alps.

The two, instead, landed at the Prince Charles's Aberdeenshire hideaway at Birkhall on New Year's Day where they would be with him and Camilla for six days.

London, Jan 3: After four unsuccessful marriages, author Salman Rushdie says he has no intention of tying the knot again, but doesn't rule out the possibility of falling in love.

"I'm not saying I am never going to fall in love again but there is no need to marry," Times Online quoted him, as saying.

Nor does he want any more children.

"I'm 61, enough already," he says.

His latest project, however, is a children's book.

"When I wrote my last children's book my oldest son was 11. He's 29 now. I have another 11-year-old now who wants a book. I read him the first 15 pages and he liked it," he says.