A teenage girl in India has killed herself on Wednesday after fearing that the LHC in Switzerland would bring the end of the world. She drank pesticide after watching the doomsday predictions son Indian news programs. She later died in hospital.

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The Galactic Throne is a custom built seat made from steel and leather, and it is obviously looking like a sci-fi command chair, with padding like the Dark Lord. And you can have it for US$5,500. But hey, you can act like a total wacky space dictator controlling the Seven Stars of crap.

Thanks to our friends over at The Journal

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It is Sunday and it is time to bring you the news from TECHGEEK, The Journal and GamesArena in one whole blog post. If you haven’t realised by now, TECHGEEK has a brand new design - called Crystalline (Blue). You can read more by Terence Huynh, the Editor in Chief and Lead Designer for the ambitious project.

The Owners of The Guardian Newspaper, The Guardian Media Group, has bought paidContent’s parent company ContentNext Media for $30 million. It will also own three other blogs from the company, paidContent UK, mocoNews.net and contentSutra.

In Australia, Seven has made some indication that it wants the Olympics back. Seven lost the rights for the 2010 and 2012 Olympics, but it may get the 2014 and 2016 Olympics.

In Gaming, Konami has sued Harmonix and Viacom over their popular game Rock Band, saying it violates several patents including a “musical-rhythm matching game”.

Square Enix has made an iPod game, titled “Song Summoner: The Unsung Heroes” , that will allow you to use your songs on your iPod to determine your character’s skills.

Activision shareholders have agreed to merge with Vivendi Games, the owners of Blizzard (who created World of Warcraft). The proposal will see Vivendi becoming the major shareholder - having a 52% stake in the new gaming powerhouse.

EA and Hasbro brings Scrabble to Facebook, to compete with Mattel’s version for international users and Scrabulous. It will also be on pogo.com and have plans to release more Hasbro games to other social networks.

Fallout 3 has been given a “Refused Classification” rating, meaning that it is banned for sale unless, like Grand Theft Auto IV, it creates a modified version that meets the MA rating. The game does contain a number of mature subjects like drug abuse and extreme violence.

TECHGEEK, however, has gone iPhone mad - with information and pictures of the Apps Store on iTunes and reporting that the iPhone had activation problems. Oh, if you are wondering who has the best deal - Analysts have said that Optus offers the most flexible and affordable plans.

Meanwhile, a regional high-speed broadband in Victoria only serves three companies in only three years - wasting $702,000 in taxpayers money to maintain the network.

And in weird and wacky news: Malware authors have declared its World War III and Windows 3.11 gets its marching orders - 15 years since it was launched.

Oh, last but not least; TECHGEEK has now started supporting OpenID credentials for you to login and for some of you to help contribute. This will allow you to comment on posts more quickly since there is no reports of spammers using it as their advantage.

This week has been a very slow news reporting time again - since GamesArena feels abandoned. If you like GamesArena, you should save it by writing news!!!! (Looks at James)

Anyway, here is what happened in our network this week:

Ten was having a bad week, with their Big Brother managed to get in the Top 50 shows - barely, and its announcement that it will axe all credits.

Meanwhile, MySpace says it will get a redesign, Hulu gets two of the best shows from Viacom and a BBC HD ad shows how cinematic you can get from Antiques Roadshow.

eBay has now gotten its plan rejected for immunity (as of time of writing - it has postpone its plans) by the ACCC - which is good, so we don’t get forced into using PayPal.

An iPhone announcement was on during WWDC about a brand new iPhone, among others - and we got the release date (July 11) in the US and Australia, and Adam suffers from faulty equipment.

And we finish off with a sad note. NBC’s Tim Russert died on Friday. We send our condelensces to his family and colleagues at NBC News and at MSNBC.

OK, so we didn’t put much content up on The Journal, TECHGEEK or GamesArena (looking at all my other editors). Mainly, we have been suffering the effects of the Exams finishing and etc.

But look on the bright side, we have some great content on The Journal in the past few days, since we announced that we will be covering the lead up to the US Presidential race there…

Clinton looked at her final moments of her campaign by saying goodbye to her staff and did a final rally, supporting her former rival - Barack Obama.

Meanwhile, we had some TV news - including that the Queen’s Birthday AFL match won’t be live in Melbourne, and Temptation was rested.

And finishing off the week, a video - a remix created by someone who remixed an episode from South Park which was about web phenomenons, which became a web phenomenon itself.

So there you go. Enjoy!

This blog post comes from our sister blog, The Journal.

A Chinese primary school teacher and a beautician have filed a suit against CNN, owned by Time Warner, in New York over remarks that they have insulted China and it’s people.

It is also seeking compensation of US$1 for every person in China, or $1.3 billion in total, according to a Honk Kong newspaper.

This lawsuit, directed at Time Warner and Jack Cafferty, the “offending” commentator, comes after 14 lawyers launched a similar suit in Beijing, saying that the commentator’s remarks violated the dignity and reputation of the Chinese people.

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