In brief: Obama sorry for sweetie habit

Barack Obama has apologised for his habit of calling female reporters "sweetie" on the campaign trail. "That's a bad habit of mine," he said... Daniel Day-Lewis, best known for heavy dramatic dramas in films such as There Will Be Blood, is in negotiations to star in the Hollywood musical film Nine after Javier Bardem, due to play the lead role of Guido Contini, dropped out… Sienna Miller is set to replace Natalie Portman in the new Hollywood adaptation of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights; as reported on The First Post last week, Portman dropped out of the film amid fears that she would not be able to pull off the part… While Hunger, a film about the IRA hunger-striker Bobby Sands, has won plaudits at Cannes, another movie about the "Troubles", Fifty Dead Men Walking, starring Sir Ben Kingsley, has been panned by the man whose life story it purports to tell; IRA mole Martin McGartland says the film wrongly claims he went to work for the IRA of his own volition, rather than as a spy: "I went into the IRA to infiltrate them. Prior to being recruited as a special branch agent I wasn't in the IRA, I wanted nothing to do with them, in truth I hated them"… Kate Middleton will attend the marriage between Princess Anne's son Peter Phillips and Canadian-born Autumn Kelly at St George's Chapel, Windsor, tomorrow. Prince William, however, will not be with her as he had already agreed to be guest of honour at the nuptials of his childhood sweetheart Jecca Craig's brother in Kenya... According to the Daily Mail, Jodie Foster has ended her long-time love affair with movie producer Cydney Bernard; while the pair have been in a lesbian relationship for 14 years, Foster only acknowledged that they were lovers at an awards ceremony five months ago, although for several years the two women had worn matching Tiffany eternity rings on their wedding fingers... British Airways boss Willie Walsh has turned down a £700,000 bonus because of the Terminal 5 fiasco. The chief executive told his board that a bonus would be "inappropriate" after the botched opening weeks of the £4.3 billion Heathrow terminal...