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Former South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun committed suicide today by leaping to his death from a hill behind his house, the South Korean government announced. Roh, 62, left a suicide family for his family. "I am in debt to too many people," the note reads.

Chen Fuchao, a man heavily in debt, had been contemplating suicide on a bridge in southern China for hours when a passer-by came up, shook his hand and pushed him off the ledge.

Police say a wanted University of Georgia professor found dead in the woods over the weekend shot himself but left no suicide ...

Ex-NBA star Jayson Williams was acting violent and threatening to take his own life in a Battery Park City hotel room, law enforcement officials said.

The Freddie Mac executive who apparently committed suicide had asked to take time off from work to deal with job-related stress, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday.

The company’s acting chief financial officer, David B. Kellermann, was found dead in his Virginia home, in an apparent suicide.

A young man at the Texas Youth Commission’s Crockett State School committed suicide early Monday – the first death at one of the state’s juvenile facilities since before the agency’s 2007 sexual abuse scandal.

A former British soldier killed himself after losing his life savings in an alleged $50 billion fraud run by Wall Street financier Bernard Madoff, the dead man's son said.

One week after the U.S. Army announced record suicide rates among its soldiers last year, the service is worried about a spike in possible suicides in the new year. The Army said 24 soldiers are believed to have committed suicide in January alone -- six times as many as killed themselves in January 2008. "This is terrifying," an Army official said.

The avalanche of legal and personal problems tumbling onto a brazen investor grew with the addition of federal charges that he faked a distress call and crashed his plane in an attempt to foil authorities.