The sister of a US teenager who committed suicide live on the internet said “it boggles the mind” that viewers and the website operators had up to 12 hours to save him.

A 19-year-old in the United States committed suicide by taking a drug overdose live on the internet, a medical investigator said today.

FLAMBOYANT fight promoter Don King filed a $2.5bn lawsuit against ESPN yesterday, claiming he was defamed by a programme on the cable sports television network.