Doomsday Predictions

The scientists predict that Thwaites Glacier and the Antarctic Ice Sheet could collapse within the next 200 years.

Predictions of the world's end have been made for centuries, from floods to fires to comets. But none have come true.

Baba Vanga is also believed to have predicted a powerful solar storm that will affect the Earth's climate in 2023.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday compared the Congress to the ill-fated ocean liner Titanic, saying that the day is not far when it will be lost to the world forever. "The condition of the Congress is just like the Titanic: it sinks a little deeper with each passing day.

Investigations into the mysterious death of 11 of a family in Delhi are now focused on notes found in the house, which point at one man's hallucinations and delusions of an impending apocalypse.

David Meade, the self-described "specialist in research and investigations," has earned a fair amount of publicity online for predicting that catastrophic events will soon befall Earth. Among his claims: On Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017, a constellation - a sign prophesied in the Book of Revelation - will reveal itself in the skies over Jerusalem, signa...

For the bond market, which suffered a number of doomsday predictions for 2013 that never materialized, that means yields could also remain low. Even if they do rise, it might not be by much, since benchmark 10-year yields have already had a 100-plus basis point increase from lows hit in May.

Though the Mayans never really predicted that the world would end on Friday, some New Agers are convinced that humanity's demise is indeed imminent. Or at least that it's a good excuse for a party.

Chinese authorities have detained around 1,000 people as they step up a crackdown against a doomsday cult called "Almighty God" which has been predicting the world will end on Friday, state media reported.

US space agency NASA is so confident that the apocalypse will not happen on December 21 as predicted by the Mayan calendar that it has released a video 10 days ahead of schedule titled "Why the World Didn't End Yesterday".

Believers of the Mayan calendar prediction that the world will end on December 21 have flooded into a small village in western Turkey, near the ancient Greek city of Ephesus.

A 14-year-old girl from Russia's Volga Republic of Mari El hanged herself last Saturday (May 21) over fears that the world would end, investigators said on Wednesday, RIA Novosti reported.May 21 was the day that American preacher Harold Camping said Christians would be taken into heaven ahead of the apocalypse.Investigator Alexander Kosharin said t...

The prophecy of the end of the world ended with a whimper, not a bang, Saturday as life went on as usual despite warnings of Judgment Day by a US preacher which provoked panic in some quarters and parties in others.Televangelist Harold Camping had insisted the so-called "Rapture" would begin with powerful earthquakes at 6:00 pm local time in each o...

The scientists predict that Thwaites Glacier and the Antarctic Ice Sheet could collapse within the next 200 years.

Predictions of the world's end have been made for centuries, from floods to fires to comets. But none have come true.

Baba Vanga is also believed to have predicted a powerful solar storm that will affect the Earth's climate in 2023.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday compared the Congress to the ill-fated ocean liner Titanic, saying that the day is not far when it will be lost to the world forever. "The condition of the Congress is just like the Titanic: it sinks a little deeper with each passing day.

Investigations into the mysterious death of 11 of a family in Delhi are now focused on notes found in the house, which point at one man's hallucinations and delusions of an impending apocalypse.

David Meade, the self-described "specialist in research and investigations," has earned a fair amount of publicity online for predicting that catastrophic events will soon befall Earth. Among his claims: On Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017, a constellation - a sign prophesied in the Book of Revelation - will reveal itself in the skies over Jerusalem, signa...

For the bond market, which suffered a number of doomsday predictions for 2013 that never materialized, that means yields could also remain low. Even if they do rise, it might not be by much, since benchmark 10-year yields have already had a 100-plus basis point increase from lows hit in May.

Though the Mayans never really predicted that the world would end on Friday, some New Agers are convinced that humanity's demise is indeed imminent. Or at least that it's a good excuse for a party.

Chinese authorities have detained around 1,000 people as they step up a crackdown against a doomsday cult called "Almighty God" which has been predicting the world will end on Friday, state media reported.

US space agency NASA is so confident that the apocalypse will not happen on December 21 as predicted by the Mayan calendar that it has released a video 10 days ahead of schedule titled "Why the World Didn't End Yesterday".

Believers of the Mayan calendar prediction that the world will end on December 21 have flooded into a small village in western Turkey, near the ancient Greek city of Ephesus.

A 14-year-old girl from Russia's Volga Republic of Mari El hanged herself last Saturday (May 21) over fears that the world would end, investigators said on Wednesday, RIA Novosti reported.May 21 was the day that American preacher Harold Camping said Christians would be taken into heaven ahead of the apocalypse.Investigator Alexander Kosharin said t...

The prophecy of the end of the world ended with a whimper, not a bang, Saturday as life went on as usual despite warnings of Judgment Day by a US preacher which provoked panic in some quarters and parties in others.Televangelist Harold Camping had insisted the so-called "Rapture" would begin with powerful earthquakes at 6:00 pm local time in each o...