Canadian researchers claim to have found a clue as to why people commit suicide or go into deep depression.

Seven years after anthrax-laced letters terrorized an already frightened nation, a new suspect suddenly emerged. Then he was gone just as quickly, killing himself before he could be charged with...

There’s more to life than a beer, but if the beer’s Heineken, then it’s worth not hanging from the ceiling. With John Lennon strumming Imagine in the background, thankfully our protagonist finds a reason to live, when he realizes that you...

A top U.S. biodefense researcher apparently committed suicide just as the Justice Department was about to file criminal charges against him in the anthrax mailings that traumatized the nation in the weeks following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist...

A WOMAN on Wednesday strangled to death her four children, including a set of twins, inside her rented two-room house in Kamwokya, a Kampala suburb, before trying to kill...

Suicide bombers, including at least three women, struck Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad and Kurdish protesters in the northern city of Kirkuk on Monday, killing at least 57 people _ a brutal reminder that mass gatherings remain vulnerable despite vast...

Suicide bombers struck a Shiite pilgrimage in Baghdad and a Kurdish protest rally in northern Iraq on Monday, killing at least 57 people and wounding nearly 300, police...

More than 22,000 veterans have sought help from a special suicide hot line in its first year, and 1,221 suicides have been averted, the government says.

The Gulf dream seems to have become a death trap for Indians, with 79 of them committing suicide this year alone in the UAE due to mounting debts. Most of the victims belonged to Tamil Nadu and...

Korea Beat has translated a new story discussing the disturbing rise in the suicide rate in Korea. It reminded me of a few months ago when Japan underwent a suicide wave of sorts. For a few weeks there were a scattering of news stories about...