Hong Kong - Checks were being carried out on lifts in apartment blocks across Hong Kong Wednesday after a lift plunged 14 floors, seconds after the only person inside stepped out.
The woman exited the lift on the 14th floor after hearing "a strange noise" just before seven of its eight steel cables snapped in a public housing block in the city's Tai Po district.
Washington - If the US election in 2008 has proven anything, it's that whoever has the upper hand in using the internet to his or her advantage will probably walk away with a victory.
More than newspapers, television, phone calls, or door-to-door canvassing, the internet has both energised and mobilised voters like never before in the US, and in the process it has proven to be a tool that no candidate can fail to master going forward.
Warsaw - Americans, Europeans and Poles alike stayed out late Tuesday during an "Election Night Warsaw" event to cheer on the US presidential candidates and watch the results come in on big-screen CNN monitors.
The crowd - mostly supporting Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama - mingled and cast their votes in mock booths, arguing politics and the importance of this year's American elections across the world.
Washington - The faltering US economy was by far the top concern of voters heading to the polls in Tuesday's general election in the United States, according to initial exit polls.
A full 62 per cent of voters ranked the economy as the key issue of this election, compared to 10 per cent invoking the war in Iraq and 9 per cent rating terrorism or health care highest, exit polls by US broadcaster CNN showed.
Hong Kong - A Hong Kong student has been convicted of fraud after hacking into a McDonald's website to claim all the prizes in on online competition, a news report said Wednesday.
Computer engineering undergraduate Lee Tsz-ho, 22, changed the e-mail addresses of the winners so he could claim all five prizes in the competition, the Hong Kong Standard reported.
He was caught when the genuine winners checked with McDonald's to ask why they had not been sent their winners' e-mails, the newspaper said. The prizes were five mobile phones.
Hong Kong - Checks were being carried out on lifts in apartment blocks across Hong Kong Wednesday after a lift plunged 14 floors, seconds after the only person inside stepped out.
Washington - If the US election in 2008 has proven anything, it's that whoever has the upper hand in using the internet to his or her advantage will probably walk away with a victory.
Warsaw - Americans, Europeans and Poles alike stayed out late Tuesday during an "Election Night Warsaw" event to cheer on the US presidential candidates and watch the results come in on big-screen CNN monitors.
Washington - The faltering US economy was by far the top concern of voters heading to the polls in Tuesday's general election in the United States, according to initial exit polls.
Washington - Voting booths clos
Hong Kong - A Hong Kong student has been convicted of fraud after hacking into a McDonald's website to claim all the prizes in on online competition, a news report said Wednesday.
