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# apocalypse now?

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Cancel your plans, the world is set to end tomorrow
The apocalypse is always coming along and ruining things.
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Oct 6th 2015, 8:31 PM
A Scottish newspaper is seriously reporting a 'zombie outbreak'
People are confused as to whether it’s the real deal. Well…
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Oct 1st 2014, 4:04 PM
A giant hole has mysteriously appeared at the 'end of the world' in Siberia
Yep. We’re doomed.
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Jul 16th 2014, 6:58 PM
A Twitter bug deleted Ellen's Oscar selfie
The record breaking tweet mysteriously disappeared offline.
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Mar 26th 2014, 7:20 AM
Guardian reader's letter poses VERY good question
We wonder how long the writer was planning this doozy.
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Mar 7th 2014, 12:35 PM
Apocalypse? Not now, probably.
It might be the end of the world as we know it on December 21 but Eoin Ryan feels fine…
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Dec 20th 2012, 9:00 PM
Sitdown Sunday: 7 deadly reads
The very best of the week’s writing from around the web.
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Dec 11th 2011, 11:00 AM
Doomsday is when, again? The world will end in 2012, 2023, 2026…
…Take your pick of apocalyptic deadlines as prophesied and theorised by various groups, clerics and writers.
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Nov 6th 2011, 10:00 AM
Hooray! If you're reading this the world hasn't ended
Predictions that the world would end today with the coming of ‘the Rapture’ seem to have been miscalculated. Unless I’m typing this in the afterlife.
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May 21st 2011, 7:23 PM
Happy Holy... Terminator Judgement Day?
Today – 21 April 2011 – is foretold to be the day the machines rise against humans. Or maybe not.
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Apr 21st 2011, 11:20 AM