For many people, a 'second life' can become just as real as the first one. Take the Japanese woman who killed her virtual husband after he divorced her in a game called Maple Story, and now finds herself under arrest in the real world.

Most Facebook users laugh off the old chestnut of 'I have just poked your wife' but one man didn't see the funny side when his missus changed her profile status to single... 

Nintendo gaming argument gets out of hand, moves from web forum to real life, and leaves one man arrested and another stabbed to death it would seem...

Mobile phone network operators are pretty much like banks, for all the wrong reasons. Not least that if they are found to be indulging in rip-off charging scams and are forced to stop it by regulators they find another way to claw the money back. Which explains why Vodafone is screwing extra money out of its contract and pay-as-you-go customers as from next month...