A SUICIDE bomber hiding explosives in his turban blew himself up inside a mosque during a memorial service for Afghan president Hamid Karzai’s assassinated half-brother.

A SUICIDE car bomber attacked a health clinic in eastern Afghanistan yesterday as women and children lined up for maternity care and vaccinations, killing at least 35 people in one of the deadliest attacks against civilians this year.

SUICIDE prevention service Pieta House wants a crisis centre no more than 100 miles from everyone in Ireland to try and stop the 10 deaths from suicide that occur every week.

A SUICIDE bomber struck a mosque frequented by anti-Taliban tribal elders in north-west Pakistan during afternoon prayers, killing at least 50 people in one of the deadliest attacks this year.

A SUICIDE prevention helpline launched less than a year ago is receiving up to 3,000 calls a month.

SUICIDE bombers struck at a Baghdad military headquarters yesterday, killing 12 people.

SUICIDE researchers have warned in the current climate of rapidly increasing unemployment, suicide rates could rise as in previous recessions.

SUICIDE bombers struck in quick succession yesterday in a former insurgent stronghold north-east of Baghdad, killing at least 32 people just days before a crucial election that will determine who will govern the country as American forces depart.

A SUICIDE car bomber struck a police crime lab in central Baghdad yesterday, killing at least 21 people and injuring dozens a day after suicide attacks hit several hotels favoured by Western journalists, officials said.

SUICIDE bombers struck near three hotels popular with Western journalists and businessmen yesterday just as Iraq announced the execution of Saddam Hussein’s notorious cousin known as “Chemical Ali”.

A SUICIDE bomber killed five senior commanders of the elite Revolutionary Guard and at least 26 others in an area of south-eastern Iran that has been at the centre of a simmering Sunni insurgency, state media reported yesterday.

A SUICIDE bomber killed 49 people in a crowded market in northwestern Pakistan yesterday pushing the country closer to an offensive against militants in their main stronghold along the Afghan border.

A SUICIDE car bomber detonated his vehicle outside the Indian Embassy in the bustling centre of the Afghan capital yesterday, killing 17 people in the second major attack in the city in less than a month. The Afghan Foreign Ministry hinted at Pakistani involvement – a charge Pakistan denied.

A SUICIDE bomber disguised as a security officer struck the lobby of the UN food agency’s Pakistan headquarters yesterday, killing five people a day after the new leader of the Pakistani Taliban vowed fresh assaults, authorities and witnesses said.

ALMOST 700 people directly affected by suicide are expected to attend a series of public vigils and support days this week as part of World Suicide Prevention Week.

SUICIDE bombers attacked a mosque and a religious school within minutes yesterday in two Pakistani cities, leaving one of the country’s most prominent anti-Taliban clerics dead in what authorities called a targeted killing.

A SUICIDE bomberattacked a crowded Shi’ite mosque south of the Pakistani capital Islamabad yesterday, killing 22 people and wounding dozens more in the latest carnage to hit the US-allied nation, officials said.

SUICIDE among Travellers is up to five times higher than the rest of the population, research has shown.

A SUICIDE bomber rammed an explosives- rigged car into a police academy yesterday as recruits lined up to register for classes, killing at least 43 people.

SUICIDE prevention groups are wasting too much time raising vital funds and not concentrating on reducing the number of people taking their lives, the National Office for Suicide Prevention said yesterday.

SUICIDE accounts for almost half of all people who die by drowning in the Republic, according to the latest figures published by Irish Water Safety.

Young people experiencing difficulties in their lives were being encouraged to talk to others about it in an innovative national mental health promotion campaign called "Tough Times" unveiled today Whelan's of Wexford Street.

THE tragic suicide of two young men, who signed a pact to take their own lives after meeting on an internet chatroom, shines a light on a crisis besetting Irish society which successive governments have failed to address with any real conviction.

A SUICIDE bomber on a motorcycle rammed into a car carrying Sri Lanka’s third-highest ranking military officer yesterday and blew himself up, killing the general and three other people, officials said.

A SUICIDE bomber detonated an explosive belt yesterday in a line of Iraqis waiting to receive government payments, killing eight people and wounding about 30, including children, police said.

SUICIDE bombers targeted Shi’ite pilgrims in the south and police recruits in central Iraq, while a roadside bomb killed five US soldiers, bringing the death toll to at least 130 people in a series of attacks.

A SUICIDE bomber killed 32 mourners and injured dozens at a funeral for the nephew of a Shi'ite politician in Iraq yesterday.

A SUICIDE car bomber targeted a busload of police recruits north of Baghdad yesterday, killing seven people, and gunmen in the capital killed five workers, police said.

SUICIDE bombers attacked three hotels frequented by Westerners in the Jordanian capital last night, killing at least 53 people and wounding more than 300 in near- simultaneous explosions.

SUICIDE costs Irish society almost €900 million a year, an Oireachtas sub-committee heard yesterday.

SUICIDE car bomb killed an Iraqi Shi’ite politician and three others near Baghdad as they were heading to parliament yesterday in an attack likely to further fuel tensions between the minority Sunni Arabs and the country’s Shi’ite majority.

ONE person in Ireland attempts suicide every 45 minutes, Fine Gael claimed yesterday at the launch of a campaign to tackle the problem.

SUICIDE accounts for almost one-third of all deaths in the 15-24 age group in Ireland, according to a report published yesterday.

A SUICIDE car bomber struck near a US base in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul and assassins gunned down a senior Interior Ministry official in spiralling violence that left eight people dead yesterday.

A SUICIDE bomber rammed his four-wheel drive vehicle packed with artillery shells into a crowd of Iraqi army volunteers in Baghdad yesterday, and the massive explosion that followed killed at least 35 people and wounded 138.

A SUICIDE bomber detonated an explosive-packed vehicle yesterday outside an Iraqi police station in a Kurdish neighbourhood, killing at least 10 people and wounding at least 45 others.

A SUICIDE plunge into Jupiter’s crushing atmosphere has ended the eight-year work of a spacecraft that transmitted information and pictures about the planet.

A SUICIDE bomber targeted off-duty Israeli soldiers at rush hour last night, killing at least eight people, in at attack that the country had been braced for.

A SUICIDE bomber destroyed a Russian military hospital near Chechnya yesterday, killing at least 20 people.

SUICIDE rates among men aged 25-34 are higher in Ireland than in 15 other European countries, a survey has found.