Revised and Updated Edition of This Internationally Bestselling Collection of Nostradamus' Most Startling Prophecies 500 years ago, Nostradamus predicted some of the most shocking moments of modern time - the assassination of Benazir Bhutto , the 2008 financial meltdown, the floods in New Orleans , the Iraq war, the attack on the World Trade Centre , and the devastating Boxing Day tsunami of 2004 which claimed the lives of over 300,000 people.