According to Beijing News a 30-year-old man man fainted at a cyber cafe in Guangzhou Saturday afternoon after he had been playing online games for three days. Paramedics tried to revive him but failed and he was declared dead at the cafe. The Man may have died from exhaustion caused by too many hours on the Internet, the paper said. The name of the man and what he was playing was not reported. China has 140 million Internet users, second only to the U.S.. It is one of the world's biggest markets for online games, with tens of millions of players.CNN

A plane with tourists crashed yesterday at the Phuket International Airport in Thailand. The death toll reached 88 Monday as diplomats and investigators converged on the scene of the crash. The Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont said "At this time, the death toll is at 88, and salvaging of the plane is still going on and we expect that this will finish today. Now, the deputy director of the Airports of Thailand and the Minister of Transport are trying to find more dead bodies that may still be within the plane's debris."According

The US president George Bush has rejected calls to end the Iraq war. He announced a reduction in US troop numbers in Iraq. George Bush said he was accepting the recommendation of General David Petraeus, the US commander in Iraq, to bring home 5,700 soldiers by ChristmasFour brigades – about 21,500 troops - would be withdrawn by July 2008, along with an undetermined number of support forces. About 168,000 US troops are now in Iraq. Bush said US troops must stay in the battle, and more than 130,000 will remain after the withdrawals in July."The principle guiding my decisions on troop levels

Investigating the disappearance of a British girl at a Portuguese resort, police is now considering the possibility that she might be dead.Investigators say Madeleine McCann vanished May 3 from an apartment where she was sleeping with her two-year-old twin siblings in a tourist complex on Portugal's southern Algarve resort coast while her parents were dining in the hotel's restaurant.Three days after she went missing, a Portuguese police spokesman based in the regional capital Faro said evidence pointed to a possible abduction which could have had "sexual" motives.Investigators were

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The Loope is a circular designed chair, designed by Victor M. Aleman. This dynamic and striking concept, made of red, oak is worthy of special attention. You can connect multiple loops together and have people sitting right next to one another - each in their own comfortable space.

Democratic presidential candidates faced questions directly from voters on Monday in the first CNN/YouTube debate. YouTube questions were sometimes personal, heartfelt and comical. Questions included one from a father who lost a son in Iraq and wondered if he would lose another, a gay couple asking why they shouldn't be allowed to marry and a woman stricken with breast cancer who asked if her chance of survival would be better if she had health insurance.In all, 39 questions were asked from the 3,000 submissions YouTube said it received.Most observers agreed that none of the candidates debating

Developers of a 1,680 foot - 512 meters - skyscraper still under construction in oil-rich Dubai has claimed that it has become the world's tallest building, surpassing Taiwan's Taipei 101 which has dominated the global skyline at 1,667 feet - 508 meters - since 2004.The Burj Dubai is expected to be finished by the end of 2008 and its planned final height has been kept secret. The tower would stop somewhere above 2,275 feet.When completed, the skyscraper will feature more than 160 floors, 56 elevators, luxury apartments, boutiques, swimming pools, spas, exclusive corporate suites, Italian fashion

Poker player Jerry Yang, of Temecula, California, poses with his prize money after winning the main event of the World Series of Poker at the Rio hotel-casino in Las Vegas, Wednesday, July 18, 2007.source