New 7 Wonders announced

BBC News
The BBC News website has the "New 7 Wonders" listing, in pictures (rather better photographs than those on the New 7 Wonders site, linked to below). If you haven't been bored/horrified to death with the whole thing, or if you just can't be bothered to visit the site, the winners are as follows:

Chichén Itzá, Mexico
Christ Redeemer, Brazil
The Great Wall, China
Machu Picchu, Peru
Petra, Jordan
The Roman Colloseum, Italy
The Taj Mahal, India

The finalists are shown on the New 7 Wonders website. For some reason this includes the Giza pyramids, which seems peculiar because the New 7 Wonders organizers announced that they had been withdrawn from the contest.

The announcement is covered on a number of sites. VOA News summarizes the occasion as follows:

The new Seven Wonders of the World have been selected after a global poll. The winners were announced Saturday. Sabina Castelfranco reports from Rome. About
100 million votes were cast by the Internet and cell-phone text messages to choose the new Seven Wonders of the World.

Academy Award-winning British actor Ben Kingsley announced the winners at a glitzy international show at Portugal's largest venue, the Estadio da Luz in Lisbon.

See the above page for the full story.

The Egyptian Gazette has also covered the story (navigate to the Tourism page for the full story - and this page will expire shortly):

HYDERABAD (News agencies) - For all the breathless broadcasts on television urging Indians to “vote for the Taj” to ensure its inclusion in the “seven wonders of the world” that apparently has even the more media-savvy ministers of the Union in its thrall, here's a dampener.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco), the global body charged with the protection and grading of heritage sites man-made or natural, has washed its hands of the campaign. Unesco was unequivocal, “The list of the '7 New Wonders of the World' will be the result of a private undertaking, reflecting only the opinions of those with access to the internet and not the entire world. This initiative cannot, in any significant and sustainable manner, contribute to the preservation of sites elected by this public”.