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A man who deliberately crashed into a car killing the female driver has been jailed for at least 14 years.

The teen convicted of helping a friend take his life wants to meet his dead mate's mother to apologise.

A 17 year-old has been sentenced to eight months home detention after admitting his part in a friend's suicide.

Party's MPs join chorus of condemnation at the permanent name suppression given to a Manawatu man who downloaded more than 300,000 pornographic images, many of them picturing children.

Chris Barton was at the inquest into a harrowing story of youth suicide.

Scientists have for the first time found powerful evidence that genius may be linked with madness.

Eighteen months after Toran Henry killed himself, his mother finally gets to have her say on whether an anti-depressant influenced his death.

Getting in touch with nature is part of Rosie Walford's technique for helping people tap into what they're really looking for in life.

A British mum will be questioned after police found the bodies of her two children in her car.

Signs of family breakdown emerge in the wake of Iceland's financial crash.

In the United Kingdom, calls are growing by opposition politicians and the public that the full report of the review of the case of two brothers who savagely attacked a pair of boys in Edlington, South Yorkshire, should be made public.

Diane Elizabeth White died of head injuries after she was allegedly attacked by her neighbour on a suburban Hamilton street.

The handling of a 111 emergency call made to police shortly before a woman was found dead in her home is being referred to the Independent Police Complaints Authority.

A woman twice called a mental health centre for help when one of its patients came to her home, before the patient returned with blood on her face.

A brilliant US scientist, millionaire and paranoid schizophrenic withdrew from life, convinced he was being spied on, only to be murdered.

An Asperger’s sufferer in England who plotted to kill his parents was sentenced to an indefinite hospital order yesterday, despite a letter from his mother and father asking the judge for leniency for their son.

An inquiry has been launched after a mental health worker was stabbed, kicked and had boiling water thrown over her by a patient.

New Zealand's once frighteningly high suicide figures are coming down, but that doesn't mean we should relax, says Deborah Coddington.