Apocalypse not now: The Rapture fails to materialise

A banner warns of the Rapture on a street in Manila, the Philippines. Photograph: Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images

Christian doomsday prophet Harold Camping looks likely to be less than rapturous after his prediction that the world would end on Saturday failed to materialise.
The 89-year-old Californian preacher had prophesied that the Rapture would begin at 6pm in each of the world's time zones, with those "saved" by Jesus ascending to heaven and the non-believers being wiped out by an earthquake rolling from city to city across the planet.