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On the bright side, the event was over quite painlessly in less than thirty minutes. On the bad side, the improvised quips were painful but writers for awards shows don't generally offer anything much better. Awards show may honor writers in best screenplay but they certainly don't showcase writers excelling at their craft. So while I hope the writers' strike ends soon and with the writers getting the fair treatment they are demanding, it's not because I want to see a three-hour, badly written Oscar telecast.

American Michael Phelps fulfills an improbable quest with a gold medal finish in his 8th race in Beijing. Phelps now has more gold medals in a single Olympics than any other athlete ever, and some are calling him history's greatest Olympian.

Take a One-Week Walkabout Tour of Australia, Bring Back Memories That Last a Lifetime.

Ghost stories, pumpkin patches, and a lot of music fills our weekend preview.

Pakistan's once-tranquil Swat Valley is now a battleground in the struggle between Taliban militants and Pakistan's army and Frontier Corps. But it will take more than the Taliban to deter Wahida Begum from doing her job as school principal.

As President Barack Obama prepares to enter a second term, he faces a host of foreign policy issues. Syria presents an immediate crisis, China poses a strategic challenge and tensions with Iran continue to escalate.

Guy Ritchie's new "Sherlock Holmes," starring Robert Downey, Jr., disappoints. But there are other options, like Arnaud Desplechin's 2008 movie "A Christmas Tale," currently available "On Demand" through the Sundance Channel.

A Los Angeles organization rescues dogs from shelters and places them with veterans who are having a hard time re-entering civilian life. The founder of Pets for Vets, Clarissa Black, says adopting an animal can change veterans' lives.

NASA has released the first collection of views from the recently refurbished Hubble Space Telescope. Thanks to new imagers installed in May 2009 during a visit from the space shuttle Atlantis, the 19-year-old orbiting observatory is more powerful than ever.

Protests continue against the rule of the King Gyanendra of Nepal. The king's announcement last week that he's willing to turn over power to a prime minister has done little to quiet demands for democracy and a new constitution for the Himalayan kingdom.