The Joker wreaks havoc across Gotham City with no apparent aim, leading to spectacular explosions, high-rise confrontations and a spine-chilling character study from Ledger.
The report warns climate change threatens all eight of the Millennium Development Goals-- a set of goals agreed on by leading nations in 2000 that aim to reduce extreme poverty by 2015.
Unemployment is also at its lowest level for nearly two decades, which is seen as leading to increased wages as employers aim to recruit and retain workers.
The British Council has commissioned leading artists to represent the UK at the Venice Biennale since 1938, with the aim of celebrating the best of emerging and established British art.
The aim and point of the whole game is profit: by which standard we really can say that Apple is the leading phone handset maker, even if it fails by some of the others.