Now you can vote for a new Seven Wonders of the World.(News)

From: Daily Post (Liverpool, England) | Date: January 2, 2006 | Copyright information

A SHORTLIST of the sites that could become the New Seven Wonders of the World was released yesterday.

People from around the globe can now vote for their favourites from a shortlist of 21 landmarks.

They include the Colosseum in Rome, the ancient city of Petra in Jordan and the Acropolis in Athens.

The only British entry is Stonehenge, where substantial remnants of a monument erected between 3000BC and 1600BC still stand.

The Eiffel Towe...

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