The world may not end two years from now, despite Internet predictions and this week's blockbuster disaster movie, “2012.”

The decision to hold a G-20 finance ministers meeting on the Scottish coast in the middle of winter was an “interesting idea.” When we arrived at St. Andrews there was all the November weather we could want; rain and wind a plenty.

Health activists Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF, Doctors Without Borders) claimed last week that the global recession threatens AIDS funding, putting millions of lives in Africa at risk.

In his November 1 article entitled “Bashing of Human Rights Watch unfair,” Scott MacLeod wrongly accused Robert L. Bernstein of unfairly bashing Human Rights Watch (HRW), the organization Bernstein himself founded.

It's a rum world when your definition of “getting better” is “not getting any worse.” That though is the cheering view of many CEOs from the world's top airlines.

Despite all the Obama administration's chin- rubbing and hand- wringing about how to proceed in Afghanistan, the president hasn't been to the war-torn country since entering the White House.

The arguments over whether President Obama is worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize look like escapism from the real conflicts the United States faces.

Nowadays, no one is fit to comment on economics unless you are a Nobel Laureate. The only Asian so far to gain a Nobel Laureate in economics is Amartya Sen, but he resides in Cambridge.

I have always wanted to see the fall foliage in New England; a chance to witness first hand the autumn leaves at their most majestic. The deep blood red color of the Maple leaf framed with golden browns and yellow of the Oaks and American Beech.

U.S. President Barack Obama says the war in Afghanistan isn't going to end up like Vietnam. A majority of Americans don't agree. They don't want to get in any deeper — but even they don't like the alternative.