US doomsday preacher Harold Camping dies at 92
A US preacher and Christian broadcaster who predicted the end of the world three times has died age 92.
Harold Camping, a retired civil engineer, died at his home on Sunday after a stay in hospital for a fall.
His independent Christian ministry, formed in 1958, most recently spent millions warning the world that the end of days would come on 21 May 2011.
He was criticised by other Christian leaders after some believers sold their possessions to help his cause.
'Our appointed time'
Camping was born in 1921, and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1942. He started a construction business soon after the end of World War Two.
In 1958, he formed Family Stations Ministry, which eventually broadcast in 30 languages on a network of more than 140 radio stations and online.
He eventually sold the broadcaster to focus on his ministry.
His family had been part of the Christian Reformed Church, which Camping left in 1988 after concluding it no longer faithfully represented Biblical teaching.
He first predicted doomsday would come on 6 September 1994, and when that day passed without apocalyptic incident he claimed he had made a mathematical error.
(continued, doomsday, privatised edition)
But he was teh funneh! 
now! 
