Nine Japanese die in Internet-triggered group suicides
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TOKYO : Nine people were found dead on Tuesday from carbon monoxide poisoning in rented vehicles near Tokyo in a record toll from the growing number of suicides in Japan set up through the Internet.
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As people gathered online to discuss the horror of the South Asian tsunami on sites known as Web logs, some bloggers said it had to be the government's fault.
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CAIRO, Egypt An Internet statement -- purportedly from a group that claimed to have kidnapped two Italian aid workers in Iraq -- says those women have been killed.
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AOL Instant Messenger message directs victims to Web sites that host the dangerous images.
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A Tokyo shrine for war dead that has been a source of friction with China has had its Web site attacked repeatedly by mass attempts to access the site and mailings apparently launched from within China, a spokesman for the shrine said on Thursday.
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The internet may be fuelling a rise in suicide pacts, a leading psychiatrist has warned.
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Japanese police said on Tuesday they were investigating a suspected group suicide involving seven people who met through the Internet, the latest in a rash of suicides linked to the Web.
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Fallout from a military data breach allegedly triggered by porn and peer-to-peer file sharing in Japan continues, with the homes of several members of the country's Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF) as well as a destroyer raided in the investigation. The breach comes at a bad time for U.S.-Japan relations.
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An Indonesian government official said nine people died and hundreds were injured in a powerful earthquake of 8.2 magnitude which struck Indonesia's Sumatra region on Wednesday.
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An Internet statement purportedly by a group which claimed to have kidnapped two Italian aid workers in Iraq said Wednesday it had killed the women.
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The number of Japanese who killed themselves edged down last year but stayed above 30,000 as it has for nearly a decade, with suicides among the elderly rising to account for more than a third of the total, police said on Thursday.
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Mass suicide is suspected after Japanese police find nine bodies in two groups near Tokyo.
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A British MP accused popular networking  Web sites of "romanticizing death" on Wednesday after the  suicides of seven young people in the last year around a small  town in South Wales.
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FOUR men committed suicide after being investigated for possessing child pornography, the government confirmed today, as it warned more arrests would be made this week.
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KASHIWAZAKI, Japan  - More than 10,000 people huddled in evacuation centers in northwest Japan on Tuesday after an earthquake flattened homes, killing nine people, injuring more than 900 and triggering a leak of contaminated water from a nuclear plant.
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Â· Teachers told to be wary after boys are found deadÂ· Minister seeks talks over content of online sites
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A growing Japanese trend for internet-assisted group suicides claimed its largest single toll yesterday when seven people in their teens and early twenties were found dead in a car in mountains north of Tokyo.