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The British Met. Office monitoring lightning activity in the ash plume from Iceland's Grimsvotn volcano recorded the number of lightning per hour 1000 times more than during the Eyjafjallajokull eruption in May 2010.

As the U.S. Geological Survey recorded over 12 earthquakes across the world on Saturday, May 21, 2011, which was predicted to be doomsday or the end of the world, we bring here a brief about earthquakes that jolted the world on the same day in the past.

Here’s a list issued by NEIC showing details of above 2.5 magnitude earthquake recorded at 12 places on Saturday, May 21, 2011.

A 4.9 magnitude earthquake was recorded 1305 kilometers (810 miles) NNE of Auckland, New Zealand in the south of Fiji Islands on Saturday, May 21, 2011 at 06:31:52 PM at epicenter, the U.S. Geological Survey updated on its official site.

As believers across the world wait to witness May 21st doomsday prediction turn real, there are a number of reasons why Saturday, May 21, is not the end of the world, according to scientists as well as believers of religion.

While you make a beeline to theaters and PVRs, watch YouTube trailers of the fourth film of Pirates of The Caribbean series, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Rob Marshall.

Hour after he spoke about halting his acting career, Arnold Schwarzenegger's animated project, The Governator was also pronounced to be on indefinite hold.

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.

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.

As houses and agricultural fields lie submerged in the flood waters, check out some of the latest aerial views of Mississippi River Flooding in U.S.

'This is a painful and heartbreaking time': Maria Shriver on Arnold Schwarzenegger's affair with a household maid in which he fathered a love child

French first lady Carla Bruni Sarkozy is pregnant, a Grman newspaper reported, quoting French President Nicolas Sarkozy's father.

You’re competing against young people in Beijing and Mumbai. Those kids are hungry, they’re working hard and you’ll need to be prepared for it, president Barack Obama said to U.S. high school graduates.

Perceived earlier as a warning sign for climate change, the floating icebergs in Antarctic Southern Ocean are found to be helping the sea take up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, a new study has revealed.

Here is a slideshow presenting some of the rare, never-seen pictures that tell a human tale of fear for life.

As Endeavour is readied to embark on its mission to deliver the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and spare equipment to the Space Station, check out the latest pictures of the space shuttle on its mark.

Check out images below, as we update with the latest photos of heavily flooded agricultural fields on the Missouri side of the Mississippi River, captured by NASA.

Watch the YouTube video showing William & Kate movie trailer.

UK Prime Minister David Cameron reopened the case of Madeleine McCann on her eighth birthday on Thursday. Madeleine went missing during a family holiday to Portugal on May 3 2007, shortly before her fourth birthday.

“You've got to focus on the US and the West,” Osama wrote in the journal seized during the U.S. raid at Abbottabad mansion. It reveals that the slain Al-Qaeda leader was preoccupied with attacking the United States over all other targets.

Aquarius is the luckiest sign, followed by Capricorn and Taurus while Libra has been found the most unlucky sign for winning money in games. Russell Grant provides some insight into the planetary position to help all 12 zodiac signs brace for luck and ill-luck.

As the South and final entrance to Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, US, opens for automobile travel on Friday, May 13, travelers can seek adventure in the region, which is famous for mountain lakes, river, canyons and hot springs including the Old Faithful Geyser.

The hotel, which occupies floors 102 to 118 inside ICC, surpasses The Armani Hotel in the world’s tallest building, Dubai’s 828-meter Burj Khalifa. Enjoy the spectacular view from Ritz-Carlton Hotel, the world's highest hotel, overlooking Hong Kong harbour.

The festival captures the essence of medieval time through re-enactments of sword fights, medieval interactive games and other attractions including medieval flower display and a medieval street market.

There may be no getting around the higher costs of travel – whether by car, train, or plane. You need to focus on all the other expense items of your vacation for opportunities to save.

Dubai International Airport is expected to receive about 75 million passengers by 2015 and 98.5 million passengers by 2020, Dubai Airports has revealed.

Memphis area residents have been warned that they are at risk of dangerous flooding as the region braces for the highest Mississippi River crest since 1937. Check out some of the latest pictures of the slowly rising Mississippi River floodwaters.

World's first space tourism agency Space Adventures plans to offer the first trip around the moon as early as 2015, the company announced on Thursday.