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The federal government will argue in front of the B.C. Court of Appeal later this month that a ban on assisted suicide should remain. Alison Crawford looks at how the debate over assisted suicide has changed since the Supreme Court last dealt with the issue 20 years ago. More...

AP - A suicide bomber attacked the headquarters of a rival insurgent group in northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing 23 of its supporters in an outbreak of factional fighting, an official said. More...

AP - A suicide bomber set off a car bomb Monday at a checkpoint leading to the Iraqi Interior Ministry, killing seven people and injuring 32 others, officials said. More...

AP - Twin suicide car bomb blasts ripped through an upscale Damascus district Friday, targeting heavily guarded intelligence buildings and killing at least 40 people, Syrian authorities said. More...

Assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia should be legal for competent people, a Royal Society of Canada panel concludes. More...

A B.C. woman with a fatal neurodegenerative disease will ask the B.C. Supreme Court on Monday to overturn Canada's laws and grant her the right to a doctor-assisted suicide. More...

A tough looking group of bikers were riding when they saw a girl about to jump off a bridge so they stop. The leader, a big burly man, gets off his bike and says, "What are you doing?" "I'm going to commit suicide," she says. While he did not want to appear insensitive, he didn't want to...

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan The Pakistani Taliban said Sunday the group had sent a husband and wife suicide squad to carry out an attack on a police station in northwestern Pakistan that killed 10 people, a rare instance of militants using a woman as a bomber. The pair entered the police...

(CNN) -- Somalia's interior minister was killed Friday in a suicide bomb attack carried out in his own home by a female bomber, Somali government officials said. The death of Abdishakur Sheikh Hassan was announced on state run radio by Somalia's deputy information minister. Hassan was briefly...

Tokyo (CNN) -- 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. For the first time in two years, the monthly suicide number topped 3,000 in the month of May, the National Police Agency said. The report...

(CNN) -- Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the Michigan pathologist who put assisted suicide on the world's medical ethics stage, died early Friday, according to a spokesman with Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan. He was 83. The assisted-suicide advocate had been hospitalized for pneumonia and a...

-- A teenage suicide bomber killed at least 27 army recruits and wounded 42 others Thursday when he blew himself up at a military training center in northwest Pakistan, officials said. The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the blast, saying it was a "message for those who wish to...

Wayne the biker was riding his Harley when he sees a girl about to jump off a bridge so he stops. "What are you doing?" he asks. "I'm going to commit suicide" she says. While he did not want to appear insensitive, he didn't want to miss an opportunity he asked "Well, before you jump, why...

-- A pair of suicide attacks Wednesday morning in Iraq's Diyala province, north of Baghdad, killed at least 16 people and wounded nearly 100 others, authorities said. A suicide bomber drove a vehicle loaded with explosives into the headquarters compound of Force Protection Services in the heart...

-- Three Afghans were killed in a suicide attack in Kandahar province on Monday, the Afghan government said. The explosion took place when the bomber in a car with explosives targeted a police vehicle that was on patrol in the southeastern town of Spin Boldak, a hotbed of Taliban militants, the...

NEW YORK – R&B singer Marsha Ambrosius tackles gay bashing, suicide and homophobia in the urban community in her latest music video. Her song, "Far Away," is one she initially wrote after a close friend attempted suicide. "Because they're in such a bad place in their lives, there's nothing you...

Paramedics treat some of the 105 injured victims of what is believed to be the first female suicide bomber to strike in the country. http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2010/12/25/lawrence.khar.bombing.cnn Islamabad, Pakistan -- A young, female suicide bomber was behind a blast in Pakistan...

Kabul, Afghanistan -- A police officer was killed and five others were wounded during a suicide attack in northern Kunduz province in Afghanistan, a local official said. "The suicide attacker detonated himself in the Chowk area of Kunduz city at 8 in the morning" said Mahbibullah Saidi, a...

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the two suicide attacks which left nine dead in Kabul on December 19, 2010. Kabul, Afghanistan -- A total of 14 Afghan soldiers and national police officers were killed in separate attacks targeting the Afghan National Army on Sunday, officials said...

Baghdad -- At least four people were killed and 17 were wounded in a suicide bombing north of Baghdad on Monday, according to Iraq's Interior Ministry. The suicide bomber struck a group of Shiites in the town of Balad Ruz, just east of Baquba, said Maj. Ghaleb al-Atiya, police spokesman in...