The advanced economies are taking the rest of the world to hell in a handbasket, as a Goldman Sachs report to its hedge fund clients famous, or infamously said earlier this year, according to The Wall Street Journal.

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The discovery that fewer people are victims of violence can thwart cynicism among compassion-fatigued news readers who might otherwise think that the dangerous parts of the world are irredeemable hell holes.

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For Goldman Sachs, the world is going to hell in a hand basket, according to a report they wrote for hedge fund clients obtained by the Wall Street Journal last month.

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The first Hell's Angels club was formed in 1948 - the name derives from a World War II USAF bomber squadron - but Barger only joined in the late 1950s, when he helped form the Oakland chapter.

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As late as 1582, one map of the world went further, depicting the sites of Judgment, Purgatory and the outer and inner circles of Hell.

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This has been confirmed by Paul McMullan, a former deputy features editor at the News of the World, who started by blowing the whistle on phone-hacking and now appears, for the hell of it, to have switched from a whistle to a trumpet.

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Like a bat out of hell, Apple has just shuttled a new, unibody MacBook in the gadget world's direction.

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Newspapers are recounting harrowing tales of survivors of so-called death camps in North Borneo during World War II - while revealing the existence of what The Sun daily calls "hell holes" in present-day Malaysia.

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