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The suicide of a Seattle nurse who accidentally overdosed a baby with 10 times too much medication has spurred new debate about how to treat medical providers who make serious, even fatal, errors.

The number of suicides in Japan hit a two-year high in the month of May, according to data released Wednesday by the nation's authorities.

IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was placed under a suicide watch in jail, while pressure mounted on him to resign Tuesday and the hotel maid who accused him of attempted rape said through her lawyer that she had no idea who he was when she reported him to the police....

Kenyan Olympic marathon champion Sammy Wanjiru died in a fall from a balcony after a domestic dispute involving his wife and another woman, police said Monday. One police official said Wanjiru committed suicide, while another said he jumped to stop his wife from leaving the house after she discovered him with another woman.

On the final track of their new album, the clean-cut siblings give a nod to difficult times. Marie is still mourning the 2010 suicide of her son, Michael Bryan.

His was a suicide with a macabre twist. In February, former Chicago Bears safety David Duerson shot himself in the chest, but not before leaving behind a note requesting his brain be studied for evidence of a disease striking football players.

Suicides in the United States appear to increase in hard times and decrease during years of prosperity, according to a new government report ...

Prosecutors said Melchert-Dinkel, of Faribault, Minn., was obsessed with suicide and hanging and sought out potential victims on the Internet. When he found them, prosecutors said, he posed as a female nurse, feigned compassion and offered step-by-step instructions on how they could kill themselves.

The man suspected of terrorizing women with sexual assaults in at least four states over 12 years tried to hang himself in his cell, but survived and was treated at a hospital, police said.

Adults who were children when their parents divorced are more likely to seriously consider suicide than adults who grew up in intact families, ...