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As the planet faces the most dangerous century in its 4.5bn-year history, astronomer royal Martin Rees looks into his crystal ballIt would be foolhardy to venture technological predictions for 2050. Even more so to predict social and geopolitical changes. The most important advances, the qualitative leaps, are the least predictable. Not even the best scientists predicted the impact of nuclear physics, and everyday consumer items such as the iPhone would have seemed magic back in the 1950s.But there are some trends that we can predict with confidence. There will, barring a global catastrophe, be far more people on Earth than today. Fifty years ago the world population was below 3 billion. It has more than doubled since then, to 6.7 billion. The percentage growth rate has slowed, but it is projected to reach 9 billion by 2050. The excess will almost all be in the developing world where the young hugely outnumber the old.If population growth were to continue beyond 2050, one can't be oth

As the planet faces the most dangerous century in its 4.5bn-year history, astronomer royal Martin Rees looks into his crystal ballIt would be foolhardy to venture technological predictions for 2050. Even more so to predict social and geopolitical changes. The most important advances, the qualitative leaps, are the least predictable. Not even the best scientists predicted the impact of nuclear physics, and everyday consumer items such as the iPhone would have seemed magic back in the 1950s.But there are some trends that we can predict with confidence. There will, barring a global catastrophe, be far more people on Earth than today. Fifty years ago the world population was below 3 billion. It has more than doubled since then, to 6.7 billion. The percentage growth rate has slowed, but it is projected to reach 9 billion by 2050. The excess will almost all be in the developing world where the young hugely outnumber the old.If population growth were to continue beyond 2050, one can't be oth

Survey found that 60 per cent of respondents would support working beyond the current state pension age in order to receive a bigger pension

What is up with the Cubs? The NL Central favorite is in a free fall and just returned home off an 0-6 road trip. Manager Lou Piniella says the offensive struggles are hard to believe, and Scott Miller agrees.

. Helena Kennedy seeks referendum on PR. Best-selling author held talks on challenging ToryThe Labour peer and civil liberties ­campaigner Helena Kennedy tonightdenied she was attempting to organise a grouping of candidates to stand in elections against MPs discredited by revelations about their expenses.Friends of the QC said she was drumming up volunteers to stand as independents across the country, united in pushing for parliamentary reform, although there was no suggestion that she would stand.They said the attempt, which would include a limit on the time MPs could sit, a bid to have US-style primaries and a new constitutional settlement, began at a meeting at her home two Sundays ago.Robert Harris, the bestselling author, yesterday told the Guardian he held talks with Kennedy and considered standing against Conservative MP and frontbencher Alan Duncan in Rutland and Melton, but had decided not to. ­Duncan, who oversees his party's policy on expenses, claimed £4,000 between 2004 an

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Proud words were spoken and cannon shots fired during a ceremony at san francisco's historic Presidio grounds today as hundreds of people listened to tributes paid to the nation's fallen warriors. It was a day of praise for World War I doughboys, the all-...

Bill Hall drove in the game-winning run in the bottom of the 10th, giving the Milwaukee Brewers a 1-0 win over the St. Louis Cardinals, ending a pitchers' duel at Miller Park.

While U.S. leaders have openly called for israel to stop the expansion of its settlements in Palestinian territory, Canada's foreign affairs minister avoided the issue after a meeting Monday with the ...

Business News: Producer to replace Rosen at school -- Feature and TV producer Teri Schwartz has been tapped dean of UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television, replacing Robert Rosen.