SEOUL : A seven-year-old South Korean girl was killed instantly after being struck by the body of a man as he plunged from his tenth-floor apartment in an apparent suicide, a report said Thursday. The 40-year-old man jumped from the flat in the southern port of Busan on Wednesday evening and hit ...

ISLAMABAD - Islamabad police informed the Supreme Court on Thursday that death of Kamran Faisal, who investigated involvement of ex-Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf in rental power plants (RPPs) scam, is result of suicide and ‘there is no sign of his murder.’A three-member bench ...

A suicide car bomb targeted a foreign military convoy in Kabul on Thursday, killing 14 people including six NATO personnel and two children in the deadliest attack in the Afghan capital for nearly a year.The powerful explosion, which struck at 8:00 am (0330 GMT) in the Shah Shaheed southeastern ...

LONDON: Amy Winehouse allegedly first attempted suicide at the age of 10, a new book has claimed. The late singer is said to have tried killing herself after her father Mitch Winehouse left her mother Janis for another woman. Chloe Govan's book Amy Winehouse: The Untold Story claims that Winehouse ...

TIKRIT : - A suicide bomber targeted the home of a senior Iraqi intelligence officer north of Baghdad on Saturday, killing three people, while three more died in other attacks, officials said.The bomber detonated a small tanker truck at the home of police Brigadier General Ismail al-Juburi, a ...

BAMAKO: Suicide bombers targeted troops in two towns in war-torn northernMalion Friday, leaving five of the attackers dead and two Malian soldiers wounded, military sources said. The first attack was against soldiers from neighbouringNigerstationed in Menaka, a Saharan desert commune 300 kilometres ...

A suicide bomber slammed his motorbike into a rangers’ picket here on Saturday, killing two persons and injuring three others.The attack took place on Mangho Pir Road.The injured personnel were shifted to hospital.

The Taliban have sent suicide bombers to mount election-day attacks on Pakistan's historic polls, a militant commander said Thursday, following a bloody campaign which has claimed more than 100 lives.Saturday's vote will be a democratic milestone in a country ruled for half its history by the ...

Two people were killed and 23 others wounded Wednesday when a suicide bomber crashed his explosives-packed car into a barrier outside a police station in troubled northwest Pakistan, police said.The attack came in early in the morning in Bannu district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which is rife ...

MOGADISHUAround 11 people were killed in Somalia's capital Sunday when a suicide attacker from the Al-Qaeda linked Shebab insurgents rammed a car laden with explosives into a convoy carrying officials from Qatar, police said."Several people have been killed, the blast was big ... the number of ...

ISLAMABAD - A man committed suicide after killing his wife and two daughters here at sector I-10 on Wednesday. However, 14-year-old teenager, somehow, managed to escape wrath of his father. According to police, Afzal Raza, resident of I-10, shot his two college-going daughters and wife before ...

LAHORE - Police Monday arrested a man a day after his wife committed ‘suicide’ by jumping from the rooftop of her house in the Ghalib Market area. Police handed over body of 50-year-old Mumtaz Bibi to her parents after autopsy. Her alleged that Haider threw his wife from the rooftop ...

Peshawar - Ten people, including son and nephew of ex-deputy prime minister of Afghanistan, were killed and 70 others wounded when a suicide bomber rammed his motorcycle into a bus in Peshawar on Monday morning. Security officials said the target was a police mobile van. Qazi Muhammad Ameen ...

LONDON: The nurse found hanged after falling victim to a prank radio call by two Australian DJs targeting Prince William's pregnant wife Catherine left a suicide note blaming them for her death, it was reported on Sunday.The handwritten note from Jacintha Saldanha was addressed to her managers at ...

GUJRANWALAThree people made suicide attempts while one of them died and two others were brought to District Hospital Gujranwala. Qasim (22), a resident of Boraywala area, swallowed poisonous pills after being insulted by his parent. The patient was rushed to the District Hospital Gujranwala while ...

MOGADISHU (AFP) - Gunmen wearing suicide vests stormed the main court complex in Mogadishu Sunday, killing at least five people before holing themselves up as Somali and African forces surrounded the building.Several people were wounded minutes later when a remote-detonated car bomb went off as a ...

MOGADISHU - A nine-man suicide commando blasted its way into Mogadishu's main court complex Sunday, some blowing up their explosives vests while others sprayed gunfire in a rampage that left 29 civilians dead, while a separate bomb attack killed five more.The Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab militant group ...

LAHORE – A 30-year-old man committed suicide by swallowing poisonous pills in the Johar Town area, police said on Wednesday. The family told the police that Muhammad Akbar consumed poisonous pills after he exchanged harsh words with his brothers over some domestic dispute. The resident of ...

HARIPUR - A female student of Matriculation has committed suicide in an examination hall in Haripur district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, police said on Wednesday.The police said that Natasha Habib, 16, shot herself during her practical exam in her school. “Her body has been taken into ...

RAWALPIDNI – A 25-years-old young boy ended his life by swallowing poisonous pills at Dhoke Munshi within the limits of Police Station Airport here on Wednesday.Police, upon call, rushed to the scene and moved the dead body to District Headquarter Hospital, where doctors carried out ...

DAMASCUS - A massive suicide car bomb ripped through the heart of Damascus on Monday, killing at least 15 people and littering a central street with dead bodies and the carcasses of charred cars."Terrorists detonate car bomb between Sabaa Bahrat Square and Shahbander Street," state television ...

BAQUBA  - A coordinated attack involving a suicide bomber at an open-air election campaign meeting in central Iraq killed 25 people on Saturday, the latest in a spike in unrest two weeks before provincial polls.The assault raises further questions over the credibility of the election, ...

A coordinated attack involving a suicide bomber at an open-air election campaign meeting in central Iraq killed 25 people on Saturday, the latest in a spike in unrest two weeks before provincial polls.The assault raises further questions over the credibility of the election, Iraq's first since ...

MOSCOW  - The 23-year-old girlfriend of the late Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky said Monday that she did not believe he had killed himself and that they had been planning to go to Israel on holiday together days after he was found dead.In an interview with liberal weekly New Times, Katerina ...

LAHORE –Two women and a teen boy committed suicides separately over domestic disputes in the city on Thursday, police sources said. A 13-year-old boy hanged himself with the ceiling fan after being admonished by his mother in the Factory Area police limits. The family told the police that ...

Two Taliban suicide bombers killed three members of Afghan security forces on Sunday, but a third attack in Kabul's diplomatic enclave was foiled when police shot dead the would-be assailant, officials said.The attacker in Kabul was armed with a suicide vest and his SUV was full of explosives, but ...

A suicide car bomber attacked a NATO convoy in Afghanistan's strategic Kapisa province on Friday, killing at least five civilians and wounding 15, officials said.No NATO troops were killed or injured in the attack in a village in Tagab district in the province, northeast of the capital Kabul, a ...

KABUL  - Six suicide bombers launched a coordinated attack on Afghanistan’s spy agency in Kabul on Wednesday, killing two people and wounding 30, Afghan officials said.The attack started at around noon when a suicide attacker detonated a large car bomb near a gate of one of the National ...

FALLUJAH (AFP) - A militant posing as a construction worker killed an Iraqi MP and six others on Tuesday, wrapping his arms round the lawmaker before blowing himself up, as a political crisis engulfs Iraq. The killing of Ayfan Saadun al-Essawi comes just two days after Finance Minister Rafa ...

HILLA, Iraq  - A suicide bomber driving a car killed at least 27 Shia pilgrims at a bus station in the Iraqi town of Mussayab on Thursday, police and medics said.Police said the bomber drove into a busy station where pilgrims were gathering to return to Baghdad and the northern provinces on ...