Other constraints loom as well. Rapid economic expansion implies that supplies of energy and raw materials will increasingly limit potential growth.

TEL AVIV Syria s crisis is now a year old, with close to 10,000 people, mostly civilians, dead and no end in sight.

With a general election looming in the months ahead, the air is already thick with political recrimination. The Mars mission if it succeeds is one thing that can literally rise above it all.

The comprehensive peace agreement for Sudan signed in 2005 turned out to be less comprehensive than envisaged, and its provisions may yet bear the seeds of a full scale return to war between north and south.

SANTIAGO The Viennese writer Stefan Zweig allegedly said, Brazil is the country of the future and always will be. Likewise, centrist politics in Latin America has perpetually been on the horizon until now.

But there is good news around the corner really good news.

Sudah saatnya para pemimpin dunia mengakhiri 50 tahun masa kebimbangan. Mereka harus memanfaatkan kesempatan di Paris, mengesampingkan kepentingan jangka pendek mereka, dan akhirnya bertindak tegas untuk mencegah bencana planet yang akan terjadi.

Sadly, there doesn't seem to be an answer in the horizon.

This is probably the skyline that most of you know about Doha.

What we've done is we've pushed happiness over the cognitive horizon as a society.

Other challenges loom.

TEL AVIV Syria s crisis is now a year old, with close to 10,000 people, mostly civilians, dead and no end in sight. The country is at a stalemate the opposition is unable to topple President Bashar al Assad s regime, and Assad s forces are unable to quash the resistance.

Moreover, several risks lie ahead.

Everyone feels that a seismic shift is under way.

Finally, serious geopolitical risks loom large.

The looming known unknowns are plentiful.

All of this amounted to a human and economic disaster in the making.

And we won't forget your hand waving happily to us

Truly effective global governance is the strategic horizon that humanity must pursue today with all its energy.

At the same time, huge opportunities beckon in times of far reaching change.

Many see currency wars looming.

A showdown also looms over tax policy.

The Republican leadership is making threats that are not credible.

Waving to the onlookers, she looked like Snow White.

Whoever wins, a fiscal cliff looms at the end of 2012.

This is how Anna describes the life of the village with World War II looming on the horizon

Elsewhere in the Middle East, tensions are either escalating or are brewing dangerously.

This is a hard won revolution in international affairs and a signal of hope for the weakest in our world.

The dreaded inflationary endgame suddenly looms as a very real possibility.

As such, the currency debate looms as a major issue in the upcoming US presidential campaign.

And, after China, India looms as the next emerging coal based industrial superpower.

Now we are already at the second rung of intervention, and there seems to be no end in sight.

Who wants to build up debt if there might be a financial crisis around the corner?

Instead, they will be blamed for not seeing an impending catastrophe that was staring them in the face.

So far, investors have been complacent about the risks posed by the looming budget fight.

Given recent technological developments, the possibility that space weapons could be deployed looms ever closer.

That means that a period of legislative stalemate looms over many of the big issues.

The looming accession process will be even more painful, but Turkey s people are firmly resolved to face this challenge.

The storm is on the horizon, but there may still be time to prepare to weather it safely.

For some years now, synthetic biology has been looming as the next big issue in bioethics. The scientists at the J. Craig Venter Institute expected to be told that they were playing God, and they were not disappointed.

Given the scale of the looming catastrophe, the world cannot afford to leave things as they are.

But all of this can change rapidly when a crisis looms, especially if it threatens the integrity of the European project.

And there is always the looming disaster of climate change, which may well be the most serious threat the world has ever faced.

So I don't want somebody who's going to cut and run at the first opportunity.

But, as the opening of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority shows, there are signs of hope.