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French prosecutor: No evidence of foul play in Anthony Bourdain's death
There's no evidence of foul play or violence in celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain's death in a French hotel room, a French prosecutor said Saturday. The famed cook, writer and host of the CNN series "Parts Unknown" killed himself Friday in a luxury hotel in the ...
Immigrant separated from family killed himself in cell despite camera, checks
A Honduran man who entered the U.S. illegally killed himself in a Texas jail despite guards checking on him every half-hour and a camera in his padded cell, authorities say. Marco Antonio Munoz, 39, was found unresponsive in his cell on the morning of May ...
For Anthony Bourdain, food was a storytelling tool and a passport
Many people thought Anthony Bourdain had the most enviable career in existence. He didn't deny it. "I have the best job in the world," the globe-trotting food-taster and culinary storyteller once told The New Yorker magazine, stating the rather obvious. "If I'm unhappy, it's a ...
Kate Spade's husband says she suffered from depression, battled 'personal demons'
The husband and business partner of designer Kate Spade, who died in an apparent suicide, said she suffered from depression and anxiety for many years. She was seeking help during the last five years, "seeing a doctor on a regular basis and taking medication for ...
Kobe educational official and school principal concealed bullying records in suicide case
A senior official of the Kobe Board of Education instructed a junior high school principal to cover up interview-based memos that proved a student who committed suicide in 2016 was bullied. The memos were produced chiefly by teachers when interviewing six students and were kept ...
Friend: Chelsea Manning is safe after window-ledge tweet, needs 'space to heal'
A close friend and colleague of Chelsea Manning said Monday that the convicted leaker of government secrets and long-shot candidate for U.S. Senate is safe after a photo on her Twitter account apparently showed the 30-year-old woman standing on the edge of an upper-story ...
After legalizing abortion and same-sex marriage in recent times, Portuguese lawmakers will decide Tuesday on another issue that has brought a confrontation between faith and politics in this predominantly Catholic country: whether to allow euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide. The outcome of the vote is uncertain ...
Bodies of teenage girl, man, 27, found in car discovered underwater off Nagasaki pier
The bodies of a 17-year-old high-school girl and a 27-year-old man have been found dead in a car discovered underwater in the city of Nagasaki, in an apparent suicide, police have said. The student, from Saga Prefecture, and the man, from neighboring Kumamoto Prefecture, went ...
'This is taking an awfully long time!' says scientist before assisted suicide
A 104-year-old Australian scientist killed himself in Switzerland on Thursday by lethal injection in an assisted suicide he hoped would trigger more lenient euthanasia laws in his home country. British-born David Goodall, who was not terminally ill, personally triggered a lethal dose of a barbiturate ...
A South Korean man charged with murdering his wife and young son at the luxury Ritz-Carlton hotel in Hong Kong earlier this year has died in custody, police said Monday. Kim Min-ho, 42, was found unconscious at the maximum security Lai Chi Kok detention center ...
In rapidly aging South Korea, elderly find escape from anxiety in visits to discos
A discotheque hidden among the back alleys of eastern Seoul is packed with hundreds of gray-haired couples on a Monday afternoon, dancing to local hits from the 1960s in a basketball court-size hall. Kim Sa-gyu, 85, calls it his "playground." "What else would I do all ...
Police said Friday they have arrested a pair close to conservative critic Susumu Nishibe, who died in January of an apparent suicide at the age of 78, on the suspicion that they helped the former TV host kill himself. The suspects are Tetsugaku Kubota, 45, ...
