Join Uri Geller, the world's most celebrated paranormalist, as he counts down to the Year 2000 - proving that the world is getting weirder every day.

Another wacky week of off-beat oddities from Uri Geller on the way to the new century

Day 358 - Friday, January 8

Medics at London's Royal Free Hospital have developed a computer game to cure stomach aches. The game, Evolve, uses electrodes on the skin to power a colourful screen display. By focussing on relaxation and reducing stress, patients with irritable bowel syndrome can change the patterns - and ease their discomfort.

Day 357 - Saturday, January 9

Nasa scientists plan to go diving in the solar system's least explored ocean - the underground seas believed to flow beneath the icy crust of Jupiter's moon, Europa. A 20-kilo space probe is to be launched in 2003 and, says Professor Christopher Chyba, of Stanford University in California: ' the exciting question will be whether it contains life'.

Day 356 - Sunday, January 10

British archaeologists believe they can prove the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem really does contain Jesus' tomb. Professor Martin Biddle, of Oxford University, who has been studying the site for ten years, says laser-guided observations have revealed the original tomb inside onion-like layers of building that were added down the centuries. "There is nothing inconsistent in the type of tomb described in the Gospels and the tomb in Jerusalem," he insists.

Day 355 - Monday, January 11

Schoolgirl Daisy Green saw a vision of life in the year 2000 and published it in her school magazine - in 1907. Her essay appeared in Stockton-on-Tees's secondary school's magazine, The Excelsior, and described pedestrianised shopping zones in her home town, factories run on electricity instead of coal, and empty shipyards. She wrote: "I asked how it was there were no ships and was told there was no longer any need of them, as all goods were carried by air."

Day 354 - Tuesday, January 12

According to the Jewish calendar, next year is 5760 Anno Mundi, counting from the Creation. In Judaism's most mystical scriptures, the Kaballah, 5760 is predicted to be momentous and even catastrophic for mankind. Rabbi Avraham Ben Mordechai wrote 350 years ago: 'The spirit of impurity will be removed from the Earth'. And the book Gallei Razaya predicts 5760 will mark the end of the 'gilgul' - the process of reincarnation.

Day 353 - Wednesday, January 13

The Millennium Bug is infecting more than 20 of America's nuclear defence systems, admits Admiral Richard Mies, Commander-in-Chief of US Strategic Command. No one can predict how the systems will react when 1999 ends, but America's enemies could take advantage of the confusion, fears the Admiral. The defence systems could register false alerts, causing the military to ignore real attacks - or the computers might even launch counter-attacks against imaginary assaults.

Day 352 - Thursday, January 14

Five ultimate party-seekers will be breaking open champagne as the new Millennium dawns at the South Pole. Two people have already signed up with the Polar Travel Co of Devon and three places at £55,000 each remain on the 65-day, 728-mile trek. Managing director Pen Hadow says temperatures could fall to minus-35 degrees Celsius, and each trekker will be hauling a 200lb sled. "It will get 2000 off to a cracking start," he says.

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