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People with severe cases of acne have greater risk of attempting suicide, according to a study published on Friday. The research reignites the controversy over the drugs used to treat the problem, suspected of causing suicidal thoughts. Swedish researchers found that patients have higher risk of attempting suicide one year after treatment with isotretinoin, [...]

Serbia has suffered for long on account of both its history and geography. Now it is suffering yet again due to its own economy and impact of global recession. One would rarely find any other nations in Europe like these former Yugoslavian breakaway nations – they never seem to recover and heal completely. First wars and genocides killed people [...]

Former South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun plunged to his death off a ravine in what the police are now investigating as a suicide. He had left a short suicide note to his family. He was 62 years old. Roh was president of the country from 2003 until February 2008. Before his death, he was being implicated in a scandal involving an alleged case of bribery. On [...]

Mistrust, prejudice and little support – this is the daily life of thousands of women raped during the Bosnian war (1992-1995), 14 years after the end of the conflict. It is unknown how many women were raped, but estimates reveal at least 25,000, most of them Muslim. There were Serbs and Croats, too. NGOs estimate that about one thousand children [...]

A still unidentified man, possibly of Georgian origin, shot and killed at least 13 people and wounded 18 others after opening fire on students and faculty of the Azerbaijan’s State Oil Academy in Baku, the capital of the oil-rich country. The school building was immediately surrounded by the police who promptly set up roadblocks in the area. Several [...]

Upon the orders of a tribal council who wished to punish her family because her brother had sexual relations with a girl from a powerful clan and higher caste, Pakistani woman Mukhtar Mai was kidnapped and gang-raped in the eastern province of Punjab in 2002. The act was payment for her family’s ‘crime of honor.’ Her brother was sodomized by a [...]

A man who lived with his family in Ohio allegedly killed his wife and their two children, and then committed suicide. Police in the town of Whitehall, east of Columbus, found the bodies of Mark Meeks, 51, and his wife Jennifer Dallas-Meeks, 40, as well as their children Jimmy, 5, and Abbigail, 8. Sergeant Dan Kelso confirmed to CNN that the four had [...]

Adolf Merckle owns Phoenix Pharmahandel, a drugs wholesaler with annual sales of 21bn euros; Heidelberg Cement with annual sales of 11bn euros; Ratiopharm, a generic drugs firm with annual sales of 1.8bn euros; Kaessbohrer ski slope equipment firm with annual sales of 183m euros; and VEM engine makers with annual sales of 280m euros. The German billionaire’s [...]

A new study shows that gay and lesbian teens that are rejected by their parents have a weaker psychological immunity to stress and addiction. It was also found out that parents who were discouraging and unhelpful to the worries of a gay adolescent usually did more harm than good. Gay and lesbian teenagers are at risk for substance abuse, promiscuous [...]

The U.S. Navy begins to take action to reduce the number of motorcycle accidents among its marines who die in these circumstances that most of enemy fire in Iraq, reported in this Friday, official sources. According to official data, since November last year 25 Marines died in motorcycle accidents, while in the period 20 were victims in the conflict [...]