US Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning tried to kill herself in prison last week, her lawyers have confirmed. Ms Manning, who is transgender, is serving a 35-year sentence at an all-male military facility. Her lawyers accused the US military of violating her privacy by revealing that she had been admitted to hospital. The army...
The number of people killed in Sunday's suicide bomb attack in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, has risen to 165, interior ministry officials say. The government has declared three days of mourning after the huge blast, which injured 225 others. A lorry packed with explosives was detonated in the Karrada district while families...
A group of suicide bombers detonated their explosives in a northeastern Lebanese village near the border with Syria on Monday, killing five people and wounding at least 15, a Lebanese military official and paramedics said. The National News Agency said the blasts occurred in the predominantly Christian village of Qaa, only few...
Canada's parliament has passed a contentious bill to allow medically-assisted death for terminally ill people. The law was put forward after the Supreme Court struck down a ban on doctors helping the incurably sick to die. The move makes Canada one of the few countries where doctors can legally help sick people die. But...
Last year, when Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone spoke publicly about her struggle with depression, she started an important discussion on mental illness, a subject that remains socially taboo in the country. Now, Facebook has launched updated support tools to help users with suicidal tendencies in India, in collaboration...
This event was happened a month before the crash of the plane EgyptAir. Are There Too Many Matches? Shocking CCTV footage shows the hijacker passing through a metal detector and getting searched in Burg El Arab airport in Egypt. Dramatic footage of a hostage escaping from the stricken EgyptAir...
Disturbing video of an Islamic State militant blowing himself up on the night of the Paris attacks in November has been broadcast in France. The CCTV footage shows Brahim Abdesalam detonating his suicide belt in the Comptoir Voltaire cafe. It has drawn shocked comments on social media but no formal complaint to France's...
There is "no reason to believe" that Prince's death was suicide, the sheriff of the Minnesota county where the singer had his home has said after a post-mortem examination. There was no sign of trauma on the body, Sheriff Jim Olson said, suggesting the singer had died alone. Prince, 57, was found dead in a lift on...
DOZENS of people have been killed and more than 200 seriously injured following a Taliban suicide car bomb attack on Afghanistan's national security agency. The attack, in Kabul, took plae at around 9.45 am local time, with witnesses saying the "very loud" blast hit the busy Puli Mahmood Khan area. The Taliban...
TERRIFIED jihadi brides are begging to become suicide bombers in a desperate bid to escape their misery, it has emerged. Figures released last night showed one in five bombers of warped group Boko Haram – which is aligned to Islamic State – are children. Many signed up because they can no longer face a life of being...
The man suspected of building bombs used in the Paris attacks last year was one of two suicide bombers who died in the Brussels Airport attack, multiple media outlets reported Wednesday. The Associated Press, citing unnamed European authorities, reported officials identified the bomber as Najim Laachraoui based on DNA samples...