The Dalai Lama has told Australians that the world seems too focused on the economy and money and that a simpler life is the key to inner peace. The Tibetan spiritual leader arrived in Melbourne on Thursday and will.

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China says Tibet has always been part of its territory, but many Tibetans say the Himalayan region was virtually independent for centuries until the 1950s when Communist troops marched in.

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On its website, Family Radio says May 21 as Judgment Day is “derived solely from evidence. These proofs alert believers that May 21st of 2011 is the date Christ will.

Billboards are popping up around the globe, including in major Canadian cities, proclaiming May 21 as Judgment Day. “Cry mightily unto GOD for HIS mercy,” says one of the mounted signs from Family Radio, a California-based sectarian Christian group that is sending one of its four travelling caravans of believers into Vancouver and Calgary within the next 10 days.

Family Radio's website is blunt in its prediction of Judgment Day and the rolling earthquake that will mark the beginning of the end. “The Bible guarantees it!” the site proclaims, under a passage from the book of Ezekiel, which says “blow the trumpet warn the people.”

End-of-the-world predictions or suggestions of other calamities have been made for centuries. Here's a look at some of them:

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