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At a four-day festival in Paris, the world's up-and-coming circus acts are on display. None of those selected for the elite festival are older than 25. This year, two trapeze artists from Seattle were among the competitors.

NASA is trying to downplay fears that the recent bone-rattling landing of a Russian capsule could mean it is less reliable than thought. Once NASA retires the space shuttle in 2010, the Russian Soyuz will be the only means of getting astronauts to and from the International Space Station.

Barack Obama's presidential campaign said Wednesday that Jim Johnson, the head of Obama's vice-presidential selection team, resigned. Presumptive GOP presidential nominee John McCain has said Johnson was the type of Washington insider the Illinois senator promised to campaign against.

U.S. Special Operations forces appear to be launching more attacks against Taliban and al-Qaida bases inside Pakistan. But American operations inside Pakistan's restive frontier provinces are a delicate matter, both politically and militarily.

The White House is pressuring Congress to pass a $700 billion rescue package for the financial sector. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the Bush administration's proposal is a starting point but by no means is the final product. Democratic lawmakers say they want to include more oversight, bankruptcy changes and executive pay caps.

The fatal nail in the heart of the era of small government came with the recent financial panic and the piercing dagger of greed. Ideology and free-market theology lasted for about five days of full market crash before it collapsed in its own true motives.

After a visit to Afghanistan, U.S. Army Gen. John Craddock, Supreme Allied Commander of NATO forces in Europe, says he wants a mandate to go after the opium trade. Western troops now have no authority to eradicate poppy fields or go after traffickers. Craddock says unless a change is made, the alliance cannot defeat the Taliban insurgency.

The Senate passed the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 by sweetening the pot to coax members from both parties. The House is scheduled to vote Friday. Although there are some new items, budget analysts say many of the provisions have been part of an ongoing funding fight between the House and the Senate.

Were you distracted by the financial meltdown this past week? Was your TV tuned to CNBC as markets reacted to the falling financial institutions? Just imagine what it was like for business school students watching their future employers go down in flames.

The Nielsen ratings company no longer measures Spanish language audiences separately from the general market. Univision has been regularly beating the four major networks in some prime-time slots and during newscasts. Has Univision has been able to convert its comparatively high ratings into ad dollars?