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Hollywood writers for film and television are picketing at studios in a bid to get a more lucrative deal on royalties from DVDs and Internet programming. Last-minute talks with producers and a federal mediator fell apart late Sunday. It's the first strike since 1988.

A week after wildfires in southern California force a quarter-million residents to flee their homes, critics complain that mass evacuations were only necessary because San Diego's fire response wasn't up to the challenge. The fires are now largely under control.

In his book, A Contract with the Earth, Newt Gingrich describes a conservative approach to conservation. He says it would focus more on technology-based, entrepreneurial solutions, not regulation, litigation and taxation.

The tentative two-year contract would raise teacher pay by 4.85% the first year and 5% the second year.

A Spanish delivers verdicts for 27 men and one woman charged in connection with the Madrid train bombings in 2004. Charges range from masterminding the attack to stealing dynamite to building the bombs. They detonated on four commuter trains, killing 191 people.

A new documentary by acclaimed director Jonathan Demme, Jimmy Carter Man From Plains, charts the rise of an ex-president. And Darfur Now considers the human toll in the Sudanese conflict.

When Barry Libert and Jon Spector set out to explore how social networking might help businesses, they allowed just about anyone with an idea to help write the book. Thousands of people contributed to We Are Smarter Than Me, which is about the wisdom of crowds.

In late 1944, seven U.S. Army airmen crashed on the island of Borneo and were rescued by a native jungle tribe. In her new book, author Judith Heimann recounts the story of their protection by natives as Japanese hunt them on the mountainous island.

Set in Texas in the 1980's, the film No Country for Old Men narrates a chase for stolen drug money. It's the latest from brother filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, whose films have always had violence as a theme. But this new movie is darker and more violent than ever before.

On Tuesday, the National Academy of Sciences published a new analysis of the African origins of the AIDS virus. The study shows the virus was present in the United States almost a decade earlier than previously thought.