Police evacuated Paris' Notre Dame cathedral yesterday after a well-known far-right former activist committed suicide by shooting himself through his mouth in front of its main altar, a police...
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- May 26, 2013
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Self-immolation isn't what it used to be. This ultimate form of protest became global news in 1963 when Thich Quang Duc set himself ablaze in the middle of Saigon, protesting against religious...
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A US hi-tech researcher whose family claims he was murdered in Singapore was under treatment for depression and left suicide notes before he was found hanged, a public inquiry was told yesterday...
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The recent reports of the suicide of two young Foxconn workers reminds us of some neglected issues facing an emerging China, namely, how to care for the increasing number of young migrant workers...
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Suicide rates are rising dramatically among middle-aged Americans according to US government statistics. They show a 28 per cent spike in the past decade in the number of people taking their own...
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Two teens in eastern China committed suicide after “failing to complete homework assignments” state-run media said on Friday, in an extreme case highlighting the immense pressure schoolchildren...
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A 60-year-old banker at state-owned China Jianyin Investment died after jumping off a building in the financial district in Beijing.
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The doctor for the French version of hit reality TV show Survivor has killed himself in Cambodia, saying in a suicide note that the media had "sullied" his name after a contestant in his care died...
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He was nicknamed the "gangsters' lawyer", one of the giants of the French legal system. Olivier Metzner was a larger-than-life figure known for his spirited defence of high-profile and...
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Tihar Jail is a land of bakeries and carpentry shops, where inmates compete in music contests, take classes and perform intensive Buddhist meditation as part of their rehabilitation.
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The 30-year-old man, surnamed Ng, is the first person to have survived a jump from the bridge since it opened in 1997, according to reports.
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A young man in China’s southwestern Sichuan province was rescued by police early on Monday after posting a suicide note on Weibo, China’s twitter-like service, according to Chinese media reports...
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