International attention was riveted on Kashmir last May after India and Pakistan both set off nuclear bombs.

CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia

With all eyes riveted on the debt talks and efforts to avert an economy-busting government default, little attention is being paid to another debt that is similarly ballooning out of control and threatening to spur its own economic chaos.

FORBES: Economists Urge Honest Accounting of Carbon's True Costs

Everyone, Burleigh said, was "riveted" on "this woman's face" and not the facts of the crime or the case.

CNN: No end to Knox as pop culture obsession

Debate over the 2001 tax act riveted attention on marriage penalties.

FORBES: How Marriage Can Boost Or Cut Your Income Tax Bill

This news - sometimes in the weekend, there's not a lot of news going on but I saw myself riveted.

NPR: Barack Obama's Big Weekend