LOS ANGELES, May 6 (Reuters) - The Screen Actors Guild and major Hollywood studios broke off three weeks of contract talks without agreement on Tuesday.
News of the stalemate came in a statement from the studios' bargaining agent, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, about 90 minutes after a self-imposed deadline for reaching a settlement had passed. (Reporting by Steve Gorman; Editing by Eric Beech)
KABUL (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed eight American civilians in an attack at a military base in southeastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, one of the highest foreign civilian death tolls in an insurgent strike in the eight-year war.
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