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Will it really happen? God's Judgment Day is virtually upon the world, according to Harold Camping, head of the Family Radio Christian ministry in Oakland, California.

Yup. There’s an iPhone app for the end of the world on Saturday, May 21st, 2011. For $1.99.

If you give any credence to Harold Camping’s prediction – that the end of the world will be May 21, 2011 – tune in at 6 p.m. New Zealand local time just to make sure. Camping himself plans to do just that by watching it unfold on TV.

Harold Camping, the head of a Christian broadcast group called Family Radio, has been predicting for years that the end of the world is on Saturday, May 21, 2011.

Doomsday soothsayer Harold Camping insists that the world will end in a few hours from now, with a destructive earthquake pulverizing each region of the world at 6 P.M. local time. The vast majority see the end of the world prediction as farcical and hallucinatory talk of someone who thinks so highly about himself that he can't imagine a world that outlives him. However there is a minority who get jitters as the appointed time of the apocalypse nears.

An earthquake of 5.9-magnitude struck western Turkey, killing at least three people and injuring more than 100, authorities told local media on Friday.

While theU.S. based Christian group, Family Radio, broadcast Harold Camping's prediction around the world, we bring here some of the photos from the scenes of the apocalypse, including YouTube video showing Camping making the May 21 Doomsday prediction.

At a time when everybody is talking about the destruction of the earth, courtesy Doomsday on May 21, let's take a look at what has been driving our universe.

Looks like it’s the doomsday season, again, signs and newspaper ads across the U.S. and in other places around the world have been warning that the judgment day is coming, but the question remains whether it is on May 21, 2011 or December 21, 2012.

A 7-years-old student Matteo Lopez from Monte Verde Elementary School San Francisco won the 2011 Doodle 4 Google competition with his imaginative work Space Life, outstanding from more than 107,000 submissions from the entire nation.

One fringe group has received national notoriety with their predictions that the end of the world will be this coming Saturday, May 21.

NASA astronaut Mark Kelly, commander of the STS-134 space shuttle mission, made a statement aboard the International Space Station about the future of space exploration. In addition, as he spoke from space Kelly showed off his wedding ring, which he wears around his neck.

Harold Camping thinks the end of the world is on Saturday, May 21, 2011. He even pinned down the hour (6 p.m. local time).

USP or 'Universidade de São Paulo', Brazil's top university, witnessed a disturbing scene this Thursday evening(BST-Brasilia Standard Time) as a student just outside the department facility was head-shot as he was preparing to enter his bullet-proof car.

Dominque Strauss-Kahn’s womanizing is well-known. However, the media scrutiny following his arrest unearthed allegations that some of his past activities were extremely inappropriate.

Strauss-Kahn was widelly known for being a womanizer. He admitted to an affair with a Hungarian subordinate at the IMF and often sent flowers and notes to female journalists he fancied.

The German city-state of Bremen has just lowered the voting age to 16. Austria, Nicaragua, Brazil, Eduardo, Hungary, Slovenia, and Norway already allow 16-year-olds to vote in certain circumstances.

Amy Frykholm, religious scholar and author of Rapture Culture, profiles Harold Camping and explains his prophecy's popularity

Camping claims that it is not about the money, but spreading the message and saving as many people as possible.

Across the U.S. and in places around the world, signs and newspaper ads have been warning that judgment day is coming on May 21, 2011.

With the aid of more than 5,500 billboards around the globe, Harold Camping’s ministry has been spreading the news: the Day of Judgment will begin around 6 p.m. on Saturday, May 21, 2011. But for Dr. Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, the Bible “explicitly forbid(s) Christians to claim the knowledge of such dates and times.”

While the public sentiment is clearly against the IMF chief in the U.S., several polls showed that the French are on the side of the millionaire and in denial over the scandal.

Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) released Thursday handout tsunami waters photos taken from near its number 5 reactor at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on March 11, when a 8.9 magnitude earthquake struck Japan that triggered the tsunami.

A spring snow storm will affect the mountain ranges of southeast Wyoming through noon today, according to the National Weather Service.

A Texas mother was arrested last night for killing her 6-year-old son whose body was found on a roadside in Maine on May 14.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, William and Kate have reportedly rented a $3.2 million luxury yacht during their royal honeymoon in Seychelles.

NASA has rolled over space shuttle Atlantis to the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center in Florida for mating the shuttle with its external tank and solid rocket boosters ahead of her July mission to the International Space Station. Take a glimpse of the shuttle hoisted to the high bay for mating.

Check out the photos of Relate to the Matter as I Drop the Bomb exhibition in Dubai featuring Obama, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Osama bin Laden as The Father, The Son and The Holy Ghost.

The newly discovered isolated planets, also called free-floating Jupiters by scientists, are believed to be ejected from developing planetary systems, indicating possibilities of life on other planets as well.