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Airs Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV

A Walkabout Tour of San Diego May Rekindle Memories of an Australian Vacation

Australia's Northern Territory is home to the cunning, powerful and deadly saltwater crocodile — the world's largest. And in the territory's capital, Darwin, the crocodile is both feared and beloved.

Somali pirates attacked the Maersk Alabama for the second time in seven months on Wednesday, but guards on board the U.S.-flagged cargo ship repelled the takeover attempt, the EU's naval force said.

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

Airs Fridays, Sept. 28-Nov. 16, 2018 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

Lawyer turned author Robert Rotenberg takes great pains to re-create the relatively calm atmosphere of Canadian courtrooms in his suspense novels. But not all of his characters play by the rules. "Well, they are murder mysteries," he says.

Revelers across the globe at least temporarily shelved worries about their future prospects to bid farewell to "The Noughties," a bitter-tinged nickname for the first decade of the 21st century playing on a term for zero and evoking the word naughty.

For decades, U.S. automakers have been paying more for the same hour of work than foreign manufacturers with plants in the U.S. If General Motors and Chrysler fail to cut those costs, they face bankruptcy, President Bush said in extending $17.4 billion in loans to Detroit.

On Friday, the United Auto Workers begins some of the toughest contract talks in its seven-decade history. Past UAW leaders went to the bargaining table with a list of new demands. These days, the union just hopes to protect what it has.