The Iranian national currency, the rial has been in steady decline for months, and the only method that the government has used to combat the issue is to print more money-- not the best plan of action.

Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are tying to do whatever they can to avert the attention from Ryan losing the Vice Presidential debate. The main area of contention is whether or not the US Embassy in Benghazi asked the American government for extra security before the attacks on September 11th that killed 4 Americans. Biden claims that he and the president were not asked to enhance security measures, while sworn testimony from the staff of the embassy said that they asked for more protection. In my opinion, there is a lot of ad-libbing in the debates, therefore to put a candidates word choice under so much scrutiny is pointless. Mitt Romney's camp seems to be jumping on biden's every word to make up for the insufficiencies in his own platform.

TOKYO - Government officials from Japan and North Korea held their first talks in four years on Wednesday, amid hopes that the North's new leader could be trying to reduce tensions with Japan and by extension, the United States.

I find both North Korea's political and social situations fascinating. Kim Jong-Un succeeded his father Kim Jong-Il as the "Supreme Leader of North Korea" in December of 2011, and less than a year later seems to be considering solidifying economic ties with other countries. North Korea has been notorious for its isolationism thus its miraculous that the government is willing to begin talks. It will be interesting to see what will happen In Communist North Korea as Cuba (also Communist) becomes open to US travelers for the first time in decades as long as they are with an educational group.