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A screenshot shows the interior of an EVE Online space station. ...

(Reuters) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:41:28 GMT

(Reuters) - A screenshot shows the interior of an EVE Online space station. Facing real world debts, a trusted figure in a popular online game stole money from the virtual bank he ran and exchanged it for cash through the black market. It happened in EVE Online where more than 300,000 subscribers pay $15 a month to play. To match Reuters Life GAMING-THEFT/ REUTERS/CCP/Handout (CANADA SOCIETY SCI TECH) NO SALES. NO ARCHIVES. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS

Guy Laliberte (front), the Canadian billionaire owner of Cirque ...

(Reuters) — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:30:08 GMT

(Reuters) - Guy Laliberte (front), the Canadian billionaire owner of Cirque du Soleil, and his back-up crew member Barbara Barrett, an international business and aviation attorney, president and CEO of Triple Creek Guest Ranch, pass by a landing capsule in Star City outside Moscow, June 25, 2009. Laliberte, a former fire-eater, is on the countdown to become the world's seventh, and Canada's first, space tourist, slated to travel on a Russian Soyuz space craft to the International Space Station (ISS) in September. REUTERS/Sergei Remezov (RUSSIA SCI TECH POLITICS BUSINESS SOCIETY)

Guy Laliberte (L), the Canadian billionaire owner of Cirque ...

(Reuters) — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:26:51 GMT

(Reuters) - Guy Laliberte (L), the Canadian billionaire owner of Cirque du Soleil, and and his back-up crew member Barbara Barrett, an international business and aviation attorney, president and CEO of Triple Creek Guest Ranch, walk in Star City outside Moscow June 25, 2009. Laliberte, a former fire-eater is on the countdown to become the world's seventh, and Canada's first, space tourist, slated to travel on a Russian Soyuz space craft to the International Space Station (ISS) in September. REUTERS/Sergei Remezov (RUSSIA SCI TECH POLITICS BUSINESS)

This image provided by NASA Wednesday June 24, 2009 shows Japan ...

(AP) — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:26:47 GMT

(AP) - This image provided by NASA Wednesday June 24, 2009 shows Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 20 flight engineer, watching a water bubble float freely between him and the camera, showing his image refracted, in the Harmony node of the International Space Station earlier this month. (AP Photo/NASA)

Guy Laliberte (L), the Canadian billionaire owner of Cirque ...

(Reuters) — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:22:24 GMT

(Reuters) - Guy Laliberte (L), the Canadian billionaire owner of Cirque du Soleil, and his back-up crew member Barbara Barrett, an international business and aviation attorney who is president and CEO of Triple Creek Guest Ranch, gesture during a training session in Star City outside Moscow June 25, 2009. Laliberte, a former fire-eater, is on the countdown to become the world's seventh, and Canada's first, space tourist, slated to travel on a Russian Soyuz space craft to the International Space Station (ISS) in September. REUTERS/Sergei Remezov (RUSSIA BUSINESS SOCIETY SCI TECH IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Guy Laliberte, the Canadian billionaire owner of Cirque du Soleil, ...

(Reuters) — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:17:24 GMT

(Reuters) - Guy Laliberte, the Canadian billionaire owner of Cirque du Soleil, laughs in front of a landing capsule in Star City outside Moscow June 25, 2009. The former fire-eater is on the countdown to become the world's seventh, and Canada's first, space tourist, slated to travel on a Russian Soyuz space craft to the International Space Station (ISS) in September. REUTERS/Sergei Remezov (RUSSIA SCI TECH)

In this image provided by NASA a fortuitous orbit of the International ...

(AP) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:26:36 GMT

(AP) - In this image provided by NASA a fortuitous orbit of the International Space Station allowed the astronauts this striking view of Sarychev volcano, in Russia's Kuril Islands, northeast of Japan, in an early stage of eruption on June 12, 2009. The main column is one of a series of plumes that rose above Matua Island on June 12. The plume appears to be a combination of brown ash and white steam. The vigorously rising plume gives the steam a bubble-like appearance; the surrounding atmosphere has been shoved up by the shock wave of the eruption. The smooth white cloud on top may be water condensation that resulted from rapid rising and cooling of the air mass above the ash column, and is probably a transient feature. The structure also indicates that little to no shearing winds were present at the time to disrupt the plume. (AP Photo/NASA)

Engineers from the US space agency NASA think they have discovered ...

(AFP/File) — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:12:15 GMT

(AFP/File) - Engineers from the US space agency NASA think they have discovered the cause of a hydrogen leak which twice delayed a high-profile shuttle launch this month, according to the agency. It may now be all systems go for the space shuttle Endeavour, which is waiting to embark on its final mission to the International Space Station, after a dodgy gas line connection was uncovered during tests.(AFP/File/Stan Honda)