The U.S. Embassy in Berlin says a German contractor apparently has committed suicide inside the embassy building.
The Army has approved new guidance to military commanders in an effort to stem the rising toll of soldier suicides.
In extraordinary times, exceptional things are often asked of ordinary people.
A training manual for an assisted-suicide group tells "exit guides" that they are special people and should celebrate their role in guiding others to their deaths.
An official whose 7-year-old son was killed in last year's massive earthquake in Sichuan province committed suicide on Monday, state media and the local government said.
A soldier who had told his family he did not want to return to Iraq apparently killed himself in a Puerto Rican motel days before he was to join his unit and head back to the war zone, police in the U.S. territory said Monday.
A retired New York City police officer shot an off-duty officer he suspected was having an affair with his police officer wife, then killed himself in the driveway of his suburban home, authorities said Saturday.
A Wisconsin prison inmate has been accused of helping his suicidal cellmate hang himself with a bedsheet.
An Ohio couple has filed a lawsuit saying school officials failed to stop bullying that they claim led to their 17-year-old son's suicide.
A former pastor was indicted on a murder charge in his wife's 2006 death, which initially was ruled a suicide before her parents pressed authorities to reopen the case.
Police say an Ohio man fatally shot himself in the head moments after realizing he had run over a friend in a bar parking lot.
A 78-year-old man apparently took his own life after shooting three people at his home Wednesday, killing one of them, authorities said.
A New Jersey man accused of stabbing his girlfriend shot and killed himself in a taxi as officers closed in, police in a New York City suburb said Wednesday.
A former assisted suicide network leader being prosecuted in a Georgia man's death is defending his group's practice of guiding people who want to kill themselves because they're suffering but not necessarily dying.
Police in Texas say a man shot and wounded his estranged girlfriend and then killed her mother and her son before killing himself in a home in a Fort Worth suburb.
Terminally ill patients with less than six months to live will soon be able to ask their doctors to prescribe them lethal medication in Washington state.
The case against members of an assisted suicide ring charged with helping a Georgia man kill himself has exposed a rift in the "right-to-die" movement as key players, including Dr. Jack Kevorkian, rush to distance themselves from the group's practices.
A British woman with multiple sclerosis lost a court battle on Thursday aimed at protecting her husband from possible prosecution if he takes her to a suicide clinic overseas.
A U.S. Marine who fatally shot himself after sneaking into Canada had served two terms in Iraq, officials said Saturday.
A Marine wanted by the U.S. military for abandoning his unit sneaked across the border into Canada and fatally shot himself outside his mother's farmhouse, police said Friday.
Jesse Coltrane exchanged instant messages and phone calls with a despondent California teenager, then became startled by the picture on his webcam: The young man who had been discussing suicide was starting to cut the skin of his forearm with a razor blade.
- Suicide rates among active-duty U.S. military personnel are continuing to rise even as the Defense Department dedicates more resources to identifying troubled service members and getting them the help they need.
An attorney for a woman convicted in a MySpace hoax directed at a teen who ended up committing suicide asked a judge to dismiss her convictions Thursday, saying a computer-fraud law was improperly used to prosecute her.
Rene-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet saw his fortune and his loved ones' money disappear along with his clients' when he lost $1.4 billion he had invested with Bernard Madoff, the French financier's brother said.
Police say the actor who portrayed the gay lover of a closeted mobster on "The Sopranos" has died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in New York.