Social workers start 24-hour strike
Social welfare workers started a 24-hour strike on Monday morning in protest over the results of an investigation into a teenager’s suicide which accused the...
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Probe into suicide teen’s death to be completed next week
AN independent inquiry into the suicide of a 15-year-old boy will be completed next week, reports said on Friday, while the teen’s siblings continued to...
Investigation to see if dead teen was let down by state services (update 2)
A probe will be launched to see if social welfare officials did everything possible to help a 15-year-old boy who committed suicide last week and...
Hurt inmate takes own life
A foreign inmate committed suicide on Tuesday after his girlfriend of 10 years broke up with him and cut off communication, the prison administration said....
Why are suicides rates so low?
By Andria Kades Figures released this week showing that Cyprus has the lowest suicide rate in the whole of the European Union may not accurately...
Cyprus has lowest suicide rate in the EU
Cyprus has the lowest suicide rate in the EU, while the highest rate was recorded in Lithuania, according to a Eurostat report published on Monday....
US celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain dead of suicide at 61 – CNN
US celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain, host of CNN’s food-and-travel-focused Parts Unknown television series, hanged himself in a French hotel room, CNN said on Friday, in the second...
Holy Synod set to review reinstatement of predator priest
Bishop Isaias of Tamassos said on Tuesday he will bring the case of a priest reinstated after being found guilty and serving prison time for...
Explosion at US embassy in Montenegro, attacker blows self up
An unidentified man threw an explosive device, probably a hand grenade, at the US embassy building in Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro, around midnight before blowing...
Man kills wife and then himself in the north
A mother of one in Akanthou, in the north, was shot dead by her husband who then turned the gun on himself but didn’t die...
Concerns that self-harm incidents are linked to ‘suicide game’
By Stephania Xenophontos The education ministry is investigating five incidents of self-harm by youngsters in both primary and secondary schools to determine whether they...
Germany aghast after Syrian bomb suspect kills himself in jail
Police and judicial officials in the German state of Saxony faced a blaze of criticism on Thursday after a Syrian man suspected of plotting to...
Indian man kills 14 members of own family, then hangs himself
A man in India stabbed 14 members of his own family to death, including seven children, before hanging himself, police said on Sunday, in one...
Busy 24 hours for fire services
The fire services said on Sunday they had answered 24 calls for help, 18 of which involved various fires, over the previous 24 hours, including...
Barmy army service must stop
By Theodoros Stylianou Military service here is a chaotic merry-go round for some, lacking conformity, routine and discipline. But if you are conscripted at 18,...
Suspect in Thai royal defamation case dies in jail
A policeman who was under investigation as part of a high profile royal insult probe has died in custody after he hanged himself in his...
China premier orders probe after ‘left behind’ children kill themselves
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has ordered an investigation into the case of four “left behind” children who apparently committed suicide by drinking pesticide in a...
No sure way to prevent pilot ‘suicides’ – psychologists
By Siva Govindasamy and Swati Pandey As investigators probe why a young German pilot deliberately crashed an Airbus A320 passenger jet into the French Alps...
Man shoots ex, threatens to kill himself (Updated)
AN ARMED 43-year-old Greek Cypriot locked himself in his pub in Oroklini, Larnaca, threatening to take his life with his shotgun after his ex-wife filed...
Troubled man plunges to death while in hospital
By Angelos Anastasiou A 73-year-old patient at the Nicosia General late on Tuesday plunged to his death from his room’s window on the third floor,...
