Study: U.S. suicides rising; risk high in middle age

Another sad statistic of the Bush administration will be the rise in suicides due to unemployment and foreclosures. During the depression of 1929 the suicide rate spiked and many Wall Street investors and brokers jumped from high rise buildings after the stock market crash....

New Algeria suicide attack kills 11

Following yesterday's attack that killed 43 people, Algeria was hit by two new suicide bombings today. This signals further trouble ahead, as it indicated a sustained campaign of violence by the country's Islamist groups."Algeria was rocked by two further suicide bombings...

Aborigine skulls to be taken home

In 2004 The UK government launched a consultation document to consider the repatriation of human remains held in Britain to aboriginal groups and based on the news included below it would appear the the correct decision was eventually made. Thousands of ancient human parts -...

Youth crime drive has 'no impact'

A £650 million Labour-initiated program called the Youth Justice Board and local Youth Offending Teams that was begun in 2000 has gotten some bad reviews in a report issued today. The Centre for Crime and...

Goldman Family Seeks Disputed O.J. Memorabilia

O.J. Simpson, in jail again on multiple felony charges, now has another problem: the family of murder victim Ron Goldman now wants to seize the sports memorabilia Simpson allegedly tried to steal in Las Vegas. The Goldman family won a multimillion-dollar award in a wrongful...

Eli Lilly Suppressed and Minimized Health Risk of Zyprexa

"The drug maker Eli Lilly has engaged in a decade-long effort to play down the health risks of Zyprexa, its best-selling medication for schizophrenia, according to hundreds of internal Lilly documents and e-mail messages among top company managers."Back in the mid 90's...

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