What do the names Andres Breivik, Abu Qatada and Robert Bales mean to the person on the streets of London today? The response will vary from those from the minority communities to those who form the majority. Breivik has undergone two psychological investigations post his well planned and executed massacre of 69 mainly teenagers’ on the Oslo island of Utoya last year as well as bombing that left 8 people dead. His 1800 page manifesto posted on the internet before the massacre seeks glory ‘ on the world stage’ to high light his warped notion of ethnic cleansing through extermination of minorities from Austria and Europe and his primary target are people of Islamic faith.

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Yes, each second a new baby is born and mother earth has to nurture all these new human beings as the world population reaches 7 billion.

U.N. marked the 31st October symbolically although demographers are unsure exactly when the world’s population reached the 7 billion mark.

The Executive Director Babatunde Osotimehin of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), said “Our record population size can be viewed in many ways as a success for humanity: People are living longer, healthier lives, but not everyone has benefited from this achievement or the higher quality of life that this implies” in a 2011 report on population growth.

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