LOS ANGELES - THE Screen Actors Guild said on Saturday it will ask its members to authorise a strike after its first contract talks in four months with Hollywood studios failed despite the help of a federal mediator.

The guild said it adjourned talks overnight with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers after two marathon sessions with federal mediator Juan Carlos Gonzalez.

WESTPORT (Connecticut) - PAUL Newman has left the assets to his wife, the Oscars to his foundation and the race cars to the highest bidder.

LONDON - A BRITISH judge granted pop megastar Madonna and her British filmmaker husband Guy Ritchie a divorce on Friday, barely a month after they announced the end of their eight-year marriage.

District Judge Caroline Reid pronounced the decree nisi in the 'quickie', or uncontested, divorce at the family division of the High Court in London.