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Dying for water

10.01.29
ENGLISH wildlife cameraman Cosmo Cooper has been murdered while working in central Africa
 
No space left at E$1m inn

10.08.29
53 PEOPLE have paid E$1m each to spend a week at the Sky Bridge Hotel in low Earth orbit

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Gaynor takes up the running

16.07.29
GAYNOR HOCKNEY announces her plans to run for president in 2032

Plug pulled on soap star

01.01.29
MILLY, the subject of her own fly-on-the-wall documentary diary, is fading from our television screens exactly 29 years after her birth
 

Womb with a view

19.04.29
UNBORN BABY in new artificial womb is watched by his parents via the Internet

Rich List 2029
The list is made up of 270 men, 230 women

Map of the future 2029 - The disappearing world

The doubling of carbon emissions from the burning of fossil fuels has caused global warming

  • Armed forces across the world are shrinking to record lows as automotive technologies replace the need for people. Highly advanced multi-warhead ballistic missiles, unmanned aerial combat vehicles and remote-controlled tanks have halved the number of recruits. SA

  • Argus, the mythological giant, had 100 eyes looking in 100 directions. Now an international consortium of radio astronomers has bettered this with project Super Argus. The New Jersey-based SETI League has 50,000 satellite dishes trained on the sky hoping to pick up an alien radio broadcast. 'We're all ears,' says director Dr Todd Reber. 'If ET phones Earth, we'll be home.' MC

  • China is in on the brink of reverting to 'warlordism'. The rural interior has developed a deep and parochial resentment of the flourishing southern seaboard and Beijing appears unable to control the country's fractured population. PF

  • Europe finally goes driverless. Less than a decade after the proposal was first mooted, every aspect of traffic movement ­ from route planning to individual vehicle speed ­ is minutely monitored by the GITGS satellite-based traffic guidance system. The driver is just another passenger. DL