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Doomsday Clock

Photo taken on Jan. 28, 2025, shows the Doomsday Clock, set at 89 seconds to midnight, during a press conference at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington. The location of the clock's minute hand, announced by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, represents how close humanity is to a global catastrophe.

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Doomsday Clock

Photo taken on Jan. 28, 2025, shows the Doomsday Clock, set at 89 seconds to midnight, during a press conference at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington. The location of the clock's minute hand, announced by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, represents how close humanity is to a global catastrophe.

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Eurovision Song Contest 2024

Bambie Thug with song Doomsday Blue representing Ireland performs during a dress rehearsal of the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in Malmö, Sweden, on May 10, 2024. LEHTIKUVA / ANTTI AIMO-KOIVISTO - FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. (Credit:Antti Aimo-Koivisto/Lehtikuva/Kyodo News Images)

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Eurovision Song Contest 2024

Bambie Thug with song Doomsday Blue representing Ireland performs during a dress rehearsal of the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in Malmö, Sweden, on May 10, 2024. LEHTIKUVA / ANTTI AIMO-KOIVISTO - FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. (Credit:Antti Aimo-Koivisto/Lehtikuva/Kyodo News Images)

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Eurovision Song Contest 2024 - Semi-Final 1 - Malmö, Sweden

Bambie Thug with song Doomsday Blue representing Ireland performs on stage during the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in Malmö, Sweden, on May 7, 2024. LEHTIKUVA / ANTTI AIMO-KOIVISTO - FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. (Credit:Antti Aimo-Koivisto/Lehtikuva/Kyodo News Images)

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Eurovision Song Contest 2024 - Semi-Final 1 - Malmö, Sweden

Bambie Thug with song Doomsday Blue representing Ireland performs on stage during the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in Malmö, Sweden, on May 7, 2024. LEHTIKUVA / ANTTI AIMO-KOIVISTO - FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. (Credit:Antti Aimo-Koivisto/Lehtikuva/Kyodo News Images)

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Eurovision Song Contest 2024 - Semi-Final 1 - Malmö, Sweden

Bambie Thug with song Doomsday Blue representing Ireland performs during a dress rehearsal of the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in Malmö, Sweden, on May 6, 2024. LEHTIKUVA / ANTTI AIMO-KOIVISTO - FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. (Credit:Antti Aimo-Koivisto/Lehtikuva/Kyodo News Images)

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Eurovision Song Contest 2024 - Semi-Final 1 - Malmö, Sweden

Bambie Thug with song Doomsday Blue representing Ireland performs during a dress rehearsal of the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in Malmö, Sweden, on May 6, 2024. LEHTIKUVA / ANTTI AIMO-KOIVISTO - FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. (Credit:Antti Aimo-Koivisto/Lehtikuva/Kyodo News Images)

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A Brighter Summer Day

Maggie and Ching Yun in their bedroom, New Taipei City, Taiwan, 2019 ‘Those days when you were crying are not the doomsday. You have to believe you can live the way you like, can be in a healthy relationship. Thank you very much for your courage.’ Maggie Maggie (right) and Ching Yun have been together for two years, and moved together almost right after they met. Maggie works in the movie industry and is from Taichung. She had a girlfriend there and her family was shocked about it. Everybody got hurt. So Maggie left for Taipei, the big city, to be able to be herself. There’s a big gap between the Taipei bubble and other cities in Taiwan. She’s still in contact with her family but they never talked about her sexual orientation again. Even if Ching Yun looks boyish, her family still expects her to marry a man. They think her and Maggie are flatmates. Her mother doesn’t know but during the referendum about same sex marriage Chin Yun tried to persuade her to vote yes. She’s been waiting for the right timing to co

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AUM trial

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows two buses, each believed to be carrying a former senior member of the AUM Shinrikyo doomsday cult, entering the Tokyo District Court on Feb. 3, 2014. The court in a rare move summoned a death row inmate, Yoshihiro Inoue, as a witness in the trial of Makoto Hirata, following the questioning of another death row inmate in January.

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AUM trial

TOKYO, Japan - A police vehicle leads two buses, each believed to be carrying a former senior member of the AUM Shinrikyo doomsday cult, as the convoy heads to the Tokyo District Court on Feb. 3, 2014. The court in a rare move summoned a death row inmate, Yoshihiro Inoue, as a witness in the trial of Makoto Hirata, following the questioning of another death row inmate in January.

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Minoru Kariya

TOKYO, Japan - Minoru Kariya, the son of the late Kiyoshi Kariya, one of the victims of the crimes committed by the AUM Shinrikyo doomsday cult, answers reporters' questions in front of the Tokyo District Court on March 7, 2014, after the court sentenced a former senior AUM member to nine years in prison for his involvement in three AUM-related cases, including the abduction and confinement of Kiyoshi Kariya, a Tokyo notary clerk, in February 1995.

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AUM trial

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows two buses, each believed to be carrying a former senior member of the AUM Shinrikyo doomsday cult, with a police vehicle leading the convoy, leaving the Tokyo Detention House for the Tokyo District Court on Jan. 21, 2014. Heavy security was provided to transport Tomomasa Nakagawa, a death-row inmate, and Makoto Hirata, who turned himself in to police after nearly 17 years on the run. Nakagawa attended the trial of Hirata, charged with involvement in the abduction and confinement of a Tokyo notary public, as a witness.

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AUM trial

TOKYO, Japan - Minoru Kariya, the son of one of the victims killed by members of AUM Shinrikyo, enters the Tokyo District Court on Jan. 21, 2014, to attend the trial of Makoto Hirata, a former senior member of the doomsday cult. Hirata is charged with involvement in the abduction and confinement of Kiyoshi Kariya, then 68, in February 1995 in conspiracy with AUM founder Shoko Asahara. Kariya later died after being injected with an anesthetic drug by AUM members.

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AUM trial

TOKYO, Japan - Two buses, each believed to be carrying a former senior member of the AUM Shinrikyo doomsday cult, enter the Tokyo District Court on Jan. 21, 2014. Heavy security was provided to transport Tomomasa Nakagawa, a death-row inmate, and Makoto Hirata, who turned himself in to police after nearly 17 years on the run, with riot police on standby along the streets and traffic lights changed to green to ensure a smooth procession during the convoy's nearly hour-long journey from the Tokyo Detention House. Nakagawa attended the trial of Hirata, charged with involvement in the abduction and confinement of a Tokyo notary public, as a witness.

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AUM trial

TOKYO, Japan - Two buses, each believed to be carrying a former senior member of the AUM Shinrikyo doomsday cult, enter the Tokyo District Court on Jan. 21, 2014. Heavy security was provided to transport Tomomasa Nakagawa, a death-row inmate, and Makoto Hirata, who turned himself in to police after nearly 17 years on the run, with riot police on standby along the streets and traffic lights changed to green to ensure a smooth procession during the convoy's nearly hour-long journey from the Tokyo Detention House. Nakagawa attended the trial of Hirata, charged with involvement in the abduction and confinement of a Tokyo notary public, as a witness.

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AUM trial

TOKYO, Japan - A police vehicle leads two buses, each believed to be carrying a former senior member of the AUM Shinrikyo doomsday cult, as the convoy heads for the Tokyo District Court on Jan. 21, 2014. Heavy security was provided to transport Tomomasa Nakagawa, a death-row inmate, and Makoto Hirata, who turned himself in to police after nearly 17 years on the run, with riot police on standby along the streets and traffic lights changed to green to ensure a smooth procession during the convoy's nearly hour-long journey from the Tokyo Detention House. Nakagawa attended the trial of Hirata, charged with involvement in the abduction and confinement of a Tokyo notary public, as a witness.

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AUM doomsday cult

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in February 1995 shows the Satyan 7 facility (foreground) of the AUM Shinrikyo doomsday cult's complex near Mt. Fuji in the village of Kamikuishiki, Yamanashi Prefecture. AUM was secretly producing sarin nerve gas at the Satyan 7 facility. Police arrested Katsuya Takahashi, the last remaining AUM member wanted over the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system, on June 15, 2012, after he had been on the run for 17 years.

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AUM doomsday cult

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in March 1995 shows followers of the AUM Shinrikyo doomsday cult meditating at the cult's headquarters in Fujinomiya, Shizuoka Prefecture. Police arrested Katsuya Takahashi, the last remaining AUM member wanted over the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system, on June 15, 2012, after he had been on the run for 17 years.

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Last AUM fugitive arrested

TOKYO, Japan - Shizue Takahashi, leader of a group of bereaved families of victims in the AUM Shinrikyo doomsday cult's 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system, gives a press conference in Tokyo on June 15, 2012, following the arrest earlier in the day of Katsuya Takahashi, the last AUM fugitive behind the attack. Her husband, an assistant station master at Kasumigaseki subway station in central Tokyo, was killed in the nerve gas attack along with 12 other people.

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Last AUM fugitive arrested

TOKYO, Japan - Shizue Takahashi (L), leader of a group of bereaved families of victims in the AUM Shinrikyo doomsday cult's 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system, wipes away tears during a press conference in Tokyo on June 15, 2012, following the arrest earlier in the day of Katsuya Takahashi, the last AUM fugitive behind the attack. Her husband, an assistant station master at the Kasumigaseki subway station in central Tokyo, was killed in the nerve gas attack along with 12 other people.

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Last AUM fugitive arrested

OSAKA, Japan - Fumihiro Joyu, the leader of Hikari no Wa (Circle of Rainbow Light), a group that split off from the AUM Shinrikyo doomsday cult, gives a press conference in Osaka on June 15, 2012, following the arrest earlier in the day in Tokyo of Katsuya Takahashi, the last AUM fugitive sought for the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system. Joyu, the one-time AUM spokesman, urged Takahashi to help get to the bottom of the AUM-related criminal cases.

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1995 police chief shooting

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows police officers investigating at the scene where then National Police Agency chief Takaji Kunimatsu was shot and seriously injured in front of his home in Tokyo on March 30, 1995. Tokyo police said in a report on Feb. 18, 2011, that they failed to resolve the case due to a shoddy early investigation. The shooting's statute of limitations expired about a year ago and police have blamed the shooting on the AUM Shinrikyo doomsday cult.

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Scientists move 'Doomsday Clock' back one minute

NEW YORK, United States - Lawrence Krauss, co-chair of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Board of Sponsors, speaks about the ''Doomsday Clock'' during a news conference in New York on Jan. 14, 2010. The scientists moved back the clock, symbolically measuring the likelihood of a nuclear war, from five to six minutes before midnight.

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Joyu sect leaves AUM to form new organization

TOKYO, Japan - Fumihiro Joyu speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on March 8 about his group's defection from the doomsday cult AUM, now calling itself Aleph, to set up a new organization around April or May.

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Joyu sect leaves AUM to form new organization

TOKYO, Japan - Fumihiro Joyu speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on March 8 about his group's defection from the doomsday cult AUM, now calling itself Aleph, to set up a new organization around April or May.

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(3)AUM founder Asahara to face verdict

TOKYO, Japan - Police keep watch in front of the Tokyo District Court on Feb. 27. The court is to hand down a ruling later on Shoko Asahara, founder of the AUM Shinrikyo doomsday cult after an eight-year trial.

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(7)AUM founder Asahara to face verdict

TOKYO, Japan - Prosecutors walk into the Tokyo District Court on Feb. 27 before the court hands down a ruling on Shoko Asahara, founder of the AUM Shinrikyo doomsday cult later in the day after an eight-year trial.

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(5)AUM founder Asahara to face verdict

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a Tokyo District Court room Feb. 27 where a ruling is to be handed down later on Shoko Asahara, founder of the AUM Shinrikyo doomsday cult after an eight-year trial. (Pool photo) (Kyodo )

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(6)AUM founder Asahara to face verdict

TOKYO, Japan - Lawyers for Shoko Asahara, founder of the AUM Shinrikyo doomsday cult, walk into the Tokyo District Court on Feb. 27. The court is to hand down a ruling on Asahara after an eight-year trial.

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(2)AUM founder Asahara to face verdict

TOKYO, Japan - A bus carrying Shoko Asahara, founder of the AUM Shinrikyo doomsday cult, arrives at the Tokyo District Court on Feb. 27. The court is to hand down a ruling on him after an eight-year trial.

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(4)AUM founder Asahara to face verdict

TOKYO, Japan - More than 4,000 people line up at Hibiya Park on Feb. 27 to get tickets to the Tokyo District Court. The court is to hand down a ruling later in the day on Shoko Asahara, founder of the AUM Shinrikyo doomsday cult after an eight-year trial.

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(2)Police search Pana Wave facilities, vans

FUKUI, Japan - Police officers check the facilities and vehicles used by the doomsday organization Pana Wave Laboratory in Fukui on May 14. Police searched 12 facilities in Tokyo, Fukui, Yamanashi, Okayama and Fukuoka prefectures as well as 17 white vehicles that recently drew great media attention as they moved in a slow-moving caravan through mountainous areas of rural Japan.

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(1)Police search Pana Wave facilities, vans

FUKUI, Japan - Police officers launch investigations in Fukui on May 14 into facilities and vehicles used by the doomsday organization Pana Wave Laboratory on the minor charge it falsely registered vehicles.

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(2)Justice minister says watch on Pana Wave group to continue

VILLAGE OF IZUMI, Japan - Members of the doomsday group Pana Wave Laboratory walk beside the police cars as policemen check their white-robed vehicles in the village of Izumi in Fukui Prefecture on May 9.

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(1)Justice minister says watch on Pana Wave group to continue

VILLAGE OF IZUMI, Japan - Members of the white-robed doomsday group Pana Wave Laboratory take rest in the village of Izumi in Fukui Prefecture during their move from adjoining Gifu Prerecture on May 9. In Tokyo, Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama said that a watch will continue on the group, which has been moving around central Japan in a caravan of white motor vehicles.

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White-garment cult on move again in Gifu

GIFU, Japan - A caravan of white-donned wagon cars carrying about 50 members of a white-garment cult that believes ''doomsday'' is imminent is seen parked on a narrow road designated by police authorities in the village of Kiyomi in Gifu Prefecture on May 3. Members of the group, which calls itself Pana Wave Laboratory, took down the roadside tents they erected on National Route 257 in the village, leaving the site earlier in the day after staking out there for 23 hours.

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China's premier outerwear brand Bosideng returns to New York Fashion Week with new collection

STORY: China's premier outerwear brand Bosideng returns to New York Fashion Week with new collection DATELINE: Sept. 10, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:42 LOCATION: NEW YORK, U.S. CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the show of Bosideng Spring/Summer 2023 collection 2. SOUNDBITE (English): CONSUELO VANDERBILT, Attendee STORYLINE: China's premier outerwear brand Bosideng on Friday returned to New York Fashion Week for the first time in three years to present its Spring/Summer 2023 collection, inspired by the characters in science-fiction novels, films and video games. The collection is rendered in a striking palette of galactic black, liquid silver, cosmic blue and earthy brown, which brings the "Doomsday Warrior" characters to life by creative director of Bosideng, Taoray Wang. In her debut collection for the brand, Wang redefines outerwear, combining soft hi-tech fabrics, leather and wool-like material in unexpected forms, such as peaked shoulders and fitted silhouettes of quilted corsets and cropped ja

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AUM Founder Asahara, Mastermind Behind 1995 Sarin Gas Attack, Executed with Followers

Tokyo, Japan, -July 6: Kyodo News helicopter shows a Tokyo detention center on July 6, 2018, where Shoko Asahara, whose real name is Chizuo Matsumoto, was hanged the same day for masterminding the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system and other acts that resulted in the deaths of 29 people. AUM Shinrikyo cult founder Shoko Asahara, who was convicted of numerous murders including the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system, was executed Friday along with several followers, sources close to the matter said. Asahara, 63, whose real name was Chizuo Matsumoto, was sentenced to death for masterminding the subway attack and other acts that resulted in the deaths of 29 people. He was among 13 people placed on death row in connection with the string of crimes perpetrated by the doomsday cult.

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Doomsday (2008)

Rhona Mitra Characters: Maj. Eden Sinclair Film: Doomsday (2008) Director: Neil Marshall 14 March 2008 Date: 14 March 2008

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Doomsday (2008)

Lee-Anne Liebenberg Characters: Viper Film: Doomsday (2008) Director: Neil Marshall 14 March 2008 Date: 14 March 2008

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Doomsday (2008)

Cal Macaninch & Malcolm Mcdowell Characters: Chancellor Falco, Dr. Marcus Kane Film: Doomsday (2008) Director: Neil Marshall 14 March 2008 Date: 14 March 2008

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Doomsday (2008)

Lee-Anne Liebenberg & Rhona Mitra Characters: Viper, Maj. Eden Sinclair Film: Doomsday (2008) Director: Neil Marshall 14 March 2008 Date: 14 March 2008

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Doomsday (2008)

Rhona Mitra Characters: Maj. Eden Sinclair Film: Doomsday (2008) Director: Neil Marshall 14 March 2008 Date: 14 March 2008

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Doomsday (2008)

Craig Conway & Lee-Anne Liebenberg Characters: Sol, Viper Film: Doomsday (2008) Director: Neil Marshall 14 March 2008 Date: 14 March 2008

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Doomsday (2008)

Rhona Mitra Characters: Maj. Eden Sinclair Film: Doomsday (2008) Director: Neil Marshall 14 March 2008 Date: 14 March 2008

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Doomsday (2008)

Rhona Mitra Characters: Maj. Eden Sinclair Film: Doomsday (2008) Director: Neil Marshall 14 March 2008 Date: 14 March 2008

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Doomsday (2008)

Rhona Mitra Characters: Maj. Eden Sinclair Film: Doomsday (2008) Director: Neil Marshall 14 March 2008 Date: 14 March 2008

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Doomsday (2008)

Neil Marshall Characters: Director Film: Doomsday (2008) Director: Neil Marshall 14 March 2008 Date: 14 March 2008

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Doomsday (2008)

Movie Poster Film: Doomsday (2008) Director: Neil Marshall 14 March 2008 Date: 14 March 2008