Mayan doomsday 2012

Photos: Doomsday preparations... and celebrations

20 Dec 2012

From Canada to China, millions around the world are preparing for the fateful day of December 21, 2012, which many believe marks the end of a 5,125-year cycle known as the Long Count on the Mayan calendar. As doomsday "preppers" rush to stock their homes with bottled water, food rations, gas masks and weapons for an impending apocalypse, nobody is preparing for the end of the world in Mexico or Guatemala; instead, they're bracing for a tsunami of spiritual visitors.

Lifestyle

In 1949, computers and robots were largely the stuff of...

4:35AM

12:00AM

British fashion designer Stella McCartney is in Hong Kong as...

11:17PM

Four-year-old Rico Bishop has already sampled sheep brains...

1:12PM

Login

SCMP.com Account

or