The Japanese Prime Minister has called for the UN to create a "Thunderbirds" style international rescue organisation.
Link annoyingly contains NSFW things in the side-bars,
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/09/04/japanese-pm-calls-for-thunderbirds/ For those who don't know, Thunderbirds is a puppet show from the Sixties that revolved around a play of billionaire astronauts creating an organisation to help people around the world with custom-built giant vehicles of various sorts.
If that happens, it'd probably be kind of awesome.
Here's the show's themetune,
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