Dates the world was supposed to end

We don’t want to panic you but according to evangelist preacher Harold Camping, the world will ‘probably’ end today - and unfortunately we can’t give you a specific time for it. However, we can tell you that the world is supposed to end quietly.

1. 1806 - Prophet Hen of Leeds

2. 20 May 1910 - Halley’s Comet

3. 17 December 1919 - Planetary alignment

4. 10 March 1982 - The Jupiter Effect

5. 1 January 2000 - Millennium Bug

6. 21 May 2011 - Rapture

21 December 2012

4,500,000,000 AD

According to scientists, this is the date the sun will swell into a red giant star, swallowing Mercury, Venus, Earth, and perhaps Mars.




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The cheapest iPhone 4S deals

With the iPhone 4S now on sale there are multiple options available for customers wanting to purchase the new Apple product. But where can you get hold of the cheapest one?

Buying the phone on its own

Buying the phone directly from the Apple store will cost you £499 for 16MB, £599 for 32GB and £699 for 64GB. This means you won't be tied into a long contract.

Prices for the new iPhone will be slightly cheaper when buying directly from the US (Prices to be confirmed in November), so if you're planning a holiday over there it's worth popping into an Apple store, but unlocked models won't be available until November.

Buying it as part of a contract

Orange, Vodafone, Tesco, O2 and T-Mobile have all released prices for the phone, and these vary depending on the package of minutes, texts and data you require.

If you don't want to pay for the new phone, the cheapest contract you can sign up to costs £43 a month for two years with Three Mobile.

If you're happy to pay for the handset, the cheapest 12-month contract comes from Tesco for £25 a month and an £335 upfront fee. This works out around £52 a month over the year and comes with 250 minutes, 5,000 texts and 1GB of data.

Orange offers one of the cheapest overall monthly contracts for £20 a month, but this has an upfront cost of £310 and only includes 50 minutes and 50 texts and 100MB.

Vodafone has one of best value for money 18-month contracts, which includes 600 minutes, unlimited texts, and 500MB of data. It will cost £41 per month and £99 for the handset. Orange and O2 offer almost identical contracts, but are both slightly more expensive over the full term of the contract.

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Did the SEA come from the sky?

Much of Earth's oceans may have been created by comets, which whacked into the infant planet billions of years ago, bringing precious loads of ice, a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature suggests.

The evidence to support this comes from a signature of the ratio of heavy hydrogen, or deuterium, in water.

Ice on a comet called 103P/Hartley 2, analysed by an infrared instrument aboard Europe's Herschel space telescope as it swung by Earth in October and November 2010, has the same deuterium ratio as water on Earth.

Primal leftovers from the building of the Solar System, comets are mixtures of ice and dust that have been dubbed "dirty snowballs."

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The truth about fruit juices

We all know we should be eating at least five servings of fruit and vegetables a day and for many years the Department of Health have said that one of those servings can come in the form of a glass of fruit juice. However, according to a number of recent media reports fruit juice may actually cause more harm to health than good.

These reports come off the back of a study recently published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association which found that those drinking more than three glasses of fruit juice a day were more likely to develop rectal cancer, a form of bowel cancer. The scientists claim that the high levels of sugar in fruit juice could be to blame.

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