Pope urges Christians to ignore Dec 21 doomsday warning

Last Updated: Monday, November 19, 2012, 18:32

Pope Benedict XVI has called on Christians not to pay attention to doomsday warnings that the world will end on December 21.

Pay $5,000 for survival before world ends in 2012

Last Updated: Sunday, August 5, 2012, 15:32

A 2012 doomsday group is charging USD 5,000 for a spot in the end-of-the-world bunker in the northern New South Wales hills.

Universe could end in `big rip`

Last Updated: Monday, July 23, 2012, 20:33

Depending on the properties of dark energy that makes up about 70 percent of the current content of the Universe, researchers have proposed several possible scenarios of the ultimate fate of our world.

Doomsday Clock a minute closer to midnight

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 11, 2012, 10:46

The symbolic Doomsday Clock calculated by a group of scientists was moved a minute closer to midnight on Tuesday, with the group citing inadequate progress on nuclear weapons reduction and climate change.

Doomsday Prophecy of 2012 `wrongly translated`

Last Updated: Friday, December 2, 2011, 17:44

A German expert has claimed that the ancient prediction that the world will come to an end in 2012, has been wrongly translated.

‘Killer solar flare’ won`t destroy Earth in 2012

Last Updated: Saturday, November 12, 2011, 19:21

NASA has assured the worried public that a gigantic, killer solar flare won’t destroy the Earth in 2012.

Now, new doomsday date: Oct 21, 2011

Last Updated: Sunday, October 16, 2011, 19:05

The radio preacher who predicted Judgment Day on May 21 says that he stands by his earlier predictions that the world will end on Friday, Oct. 21.

Debris of `doomsday comet` to pass by Earth today

Last Updated: Sunday, October 16, 2011, 16:43

Comet Elenin, popularly known as the "doomsday comet", is likely to make its closest approach to Earth as early as today.

Russian teenager hangs herself over doomsday fears

Last Updated: Thursday, May 26, 2011, 09:36

Investigators are probing the girl`s ties with "informal youth groups".

Now, a new doomsday date

Last Updated: Tuesday, May 24, 2011, 14:37

The evangelical Christian broadcaster whose much-ballyhooed Judgment Day prophecy went conspicuously unfulfilled on Saturday has a simple explanation for what went wrong - he miscalculated.

Scientists turn back Doomsday Clock

Last Updated: Friday, January 15, 2010, 10:19

Citing increased international cooperation to curb nuclear weapons and global warming, scientists Thursday moved the so-called Doomsday Clock back by one minute.