That is because Europe is on the cutting edge of progress and are the reason most of the world is populated by people who wear suits rather than bear skins.
If it is a black hole that ingests the world, I'd say seconds.
The only thing that I hope they do with the LHC is make use of the heat, as it runs stupidly hot it'd seem such a waste to no make use of all that energy. They could heat up soup for hobos and such.
This section describes what happens when something falls into a Schwarzschild (i.e. non-rotating and uncharged) black hole. Rotating and charged black holes have some additional complications when falling into them, which are not treated here.
So if we survive today, we still not safe to after 2012? Well, we are going to die sooner or later by some scientist shit, why do we HAVE to know the uknown? I like the idea about having something we don't know, like a mystery. If we knew it it wouldn't be any fun