US Author of &#39;Rape of Nanking&#39; Commits Suicide
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The author of &quot;the Rape of Nanking,&quot; an acclaimed history of Japanese brutality against China in the 1930s, has committed suicide, officials said on Thursday.
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CHATROOM users who incited a Midland man to kill himself live on the internet will not face prosecution.   Detectives were considering criminal charges against web users who encouraged Kevin Whitrick to hang himself at his home in Wellington, Shropshire, on March 21.
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French novelist Pierre Daninos, best known for his best-seller "The diary of Major Thompson", died at the age of 91.
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The best-selling American novelist Sidney Sheldon dies aged 89 of complications from pneumonia.
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the weekend and confirmed that the six Americans aboard all died, the US military said. crashed in Bamiyan province on Saturday, said US military spokesman Major Mark McCann.
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Arthur Miller, author of several award-winning plays such as Death of a Salesman, The Crucible and A View From the Bridge, died earlier this week due to pneumonia, cancer and heart problems. He was 89. Miller's plays have been stud...
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Japan's farm minister, Toshikatsu Matsuoka -- under fire for a series of political funding scandals -- has killed himself, NHK said on Monday.
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A Fort Bragg soldier charged as a teenager in a notorious New Jersey rape case shot and wounded his estranged wife and her boyfriend, then killed himself, authorities said.
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The apparent suicide of a University of Georgia researcher at ground zero in New York over the weekend has family, friends and colleagues struggling to understand what happened.
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U.S. playwright Arthur Miller has died after battling cancer, pneumonia and a heart condition, The New York Times reported on its Web site on Friday.
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The assisted-suicide enthusiast, who says he helped some 130 people kill themselves, is in prison for the 1998 murder of Thomas Youk, who suffered from Lou Gehrig&#39;s disease.
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JK Rowling, the author of the wildly successful Harry Potter series, confirmed on her website that one of the characters in the books would die by the end of the seventh book.
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Three-day stint led to collapse from exhaustion, Chinese officials say.
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1. Novelists Stephen King and Stewart O&#39;Nan are collaborating on a book about this year&#39;s Red Sox. The working title is The Girl Who Now Hates Tom Gordon.
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China has executed a 25-year-old university dropout for killing six men as an act of revenge for being raped while drunk. Li Yijiang cut off the penises of his victims aged between 20 and 30 after killing them, the Beijing Youth Daily said yesterday.
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A Saudi Arabian prisoner at Guantanamo Bay apparently commits suicide, the US military says.
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The author, best known for the childrenâs classic âA Wrinkle in Time,â died Thursday at 88.