David Magee

Halloween comes before the end of daylight saving time this year, so don't turn your clocks back yet. Daylight saving time (DST), the official term, comes to an end on Nov. 6.

Snow is falling Saturday in the Northeast, and the rare October Snowstorm of 2011 is expected to smash records from New York to areas inland of the Interstate 95 corridor before it ends early Sunday.

In a year already colored by rare natural events, including an earthquake and a strike from Hurricane Irene, New York could receive an all-time record snowfall for the month of October on Saturday, according to forecasts.

The Better Business Bureau (BBB) is warning of a new e-mail phishing scam targeting consumers that began circulating Thursday morning this week. Many reports have been received that scam e-mails are being sent to consumers to appear that they are from the online sports and entertainment ticket company StubHub.

If one buys into reactions of global markets, including the New York Stock Exchange and Dow Jones Industrials Average, they could go to sleep at night with little concern that the Eurozone financial crisis is a ticking time bomb, just waiting to explode with global implications that ripple back to the U.S.

It's no trick, and whether it's a treat or not depends on who you ask. But major cities along the I-95 corridor including Philadelphia, New York and Boston might be in for a rare October accumulating snowfall Saturday.

Pundits who argued that GOP presidential nominee candidate Herman Cain was merely the Republican party's flavor of the month in the race to unseat Democratic incumbent Barack Obama may have been right.

In a study, Morocco improved its business regulation the most compared to other global economies, climbing 21 places in the 183-country ranking to 94. Reasons cited for Morocco's ranking leap including simplifying the construction permitting process, easing the administrative burden of tax compliance, and providing greater protections to minority shareholders. Morocco has implemented 15 business regulatory reforms since 2005.

Forecasters say New York, Philadelphia, Boston and others along the I-95 corridor could be in line for some wet snow flakes this weekend, even though temperatures will be above freezing.

On Oct. 31, the world's population will reach seven billion. The seven billion milestone with projections of more growth, said Babatunde Ostimehin, executive director of the United Nations Population Fund, is a challenge, an opportunity and a call to action. Global population will reach seven billion on Oct. 31, with another billion people projected on Earth by the year 2025. The world's population is projected to reach 10 billion by the end of this century.

On the Barack Obama birth certificate question that doesn't go away, GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry should take a cue from his most powerful endorser, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, and put the issue to rest from his campaign perspective.

As many Americans and others throughout the world grapple with making a comeback in lingering difficult economic conditions from the 2008 Great Recession, here are 5 lessons to learn from Ford Motor Company for dealing with and coming back from hard times.

In America, people spend thousands of dollars to have straight teeth through orthodontics. In Japan, however, a trend has been underway for a couple of years in which crooked teeth through purposeful dental cosmetic surgery have become the rage. In Japan, the crooked teeth trend is called yaeba, or double tooth.

We only truly need a couple of things in this world, but too many citizens of the world take them for granted. One is food, something each human should value as individuals and as a citizen of the larger world. On Food Day, a national event concocted by and brought to us by the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest, we should stop and think -- we are what we eat.

Consider that higher education isn't the ticket to a guaranteed job like it once was. Consider also that education costs have been rising far above and beyond core economic inflation, making it arguably less valuable. Consider also that student loans are the one debt that Americans can't get out of.

The highly anticipated biography of Steve Jobs will be available Monday, and judging by advance attention, it promises to be an all-time great tome, capable of briefly reviving the sagging hardcover book business.

In the latest of shark attacks 2011, a great white shark killed an American diver near Perth, Australia Saturday -- the second fatal shark attack off the coast of Western Australia in the past two weeks.

So the Groupon IPO is apparently going to finally happen -- and likely within the next couple of weeks. The once-high-flying daily deal Web social company is getting there with a bit of a limp.

Reports were initially conflicting, but Gadhafi (Gaddafi) was killed on October 20, 2011 in cross-fire between rebels and loyalist fighters in Libya when the rebels in Gadhafi's birthplace of Sirt attempted to take the ousted colonel, who was wounded, to an ambulance. Libya's interim Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril told TIME that Gadhafi, who was in hiding in a large sewer pipe in Sirt, did not resist arrest but was carrying a small pistol in his holster.

So today may be the end of the world, if you buy into the predictions of radio evangelist Harold Camping. That's what he's said, that the end of the whole physical world will be on Oct. 21.

Last week we got a report that late Apple co-founder and long-time CEO was at work on the iPhone 5 project until his death as his last big innovation. Now comes a report that Jobs was working on the company's next project, which may have been the iPhone 5, until the day before he died.

Now that Apple has launched its iPhone 4S to record sales, the focus is shifting toward the company's next release -- the iPad 3.

For Apple, the month of October will be one to remember, and one to forget. It's been a radical roller coaster ride for the Cupertino, California-based company to say the least, with the highest of highs and lowest of lows in the span of less than three weeks.

Harold Camping, 90, who had predicted that Judgment Day would come on May 21, said in an announcement on his Family Radio Network Web site that he stands by his present prediction that the end of the world will come on Oct. 21.

The time has come for that annual viewing spectacle -- the Halley's Comet Orionid Meteor Showers 2011. The viewing this year is expected to be excellent, considering the slender moon in place at peak later this

Herman Cain says he was just making a joke about deterring illegal immigrants from coming into America with electrocution at the border. His so-called joke, told to two crowds in Tennessee where the GOP presidential candidate was campaigning last week, went like this: It's giong to be 20 feet high, Cain said, according to The New York Times. It's going to have barbed wire at the top. It's going to be electrified. And there's going to be a sign on the other side saying, ...

Jon Stein got a good education in economics at Harvard and Columbia Business School. In nearly every economics class, Stein said he was taught that for any investor who doesn't have better market information than another there's just one optimal portfolio to own: The market portfolio.

It's the least Research in Motion (RIM) could do for its global customers impacted by the three-day outage of BlackBerry mobile services including messenger and email. The company said it will offer BlackBerry free apps as an apology of sorts, hoping to make amends for the trouble customers experienced throughout the world last week.

A decade ago it was Dale Earnhardt, the seven-time NASCAR champion who died on the track. This time it was Dan Wheldon, the two-time Indy winner who died on the track. And others have fallen in between. IndyCar racer Paul Dana died in a morning warmpup at Homestead in 2006, for instance. Is dying simply an inevitable part of the racing sport, or can it be avoided?