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The Vice President told an audience of dead soldiers' families in Arlington, Virginia that his grief was so great he began to see why people contemplate suicide.

Vice President Biden, speaking Friday to families and friends of military personnel killed in action, gave a powerful retelling of the death of his wife and daughter 40 years ago — saying he’d realized then how grief might push a person to suicide. Read full article >>

KARACHI - The Muttahida Quami Movement Coordination Committee on Friday strongly condemned the firing on a Kohat-bound passenger bus in Qazi Ahmed town near Nawabshah. The committee expressed grief over the deaths in the attack, and termed the attack an act of barbarism.  The committee warned that some elements in Sindh were conspiring to spark violence by creating acrimonies and ...

KARACHI - The Muttahida Quami Movement Coordination Committee on Friday strongly condemned the firing on a Kohat-bound passenger bus in Qazi Ahmed town near Nawabshah. The committee expressed grief over the deaths in the attack, and termed the attack an act of barbarism.  The committee warned that some elements in Sindh were conspiring to spark violence by creating acrimonies and ...

KARACHI - The Muttahida Quami Movement Coordination Committee on Friday strongly condemned the firing on a Kohat-bound passenger bus in Qazi Ahmed town near Nawabshah. The committee expressed grief over the deaths in the attack, and termed the attack an act of barbarism.  The committee warned that some elements in Sindh were conspiring to spark violence by creating acrimonies and ...

Vice President Joe Biden, in most cases a congenial public speaker, showed off a much more emotional side on Friday, when he recounted the agonizing experience of losing his first wife and daughter in a car crash in 1972. Biden was so distraught in the wake of the accident that he even admitted contemplating suicide, he told families of fallen troops."It was the first time in my career, in my l...

AP Photo Vice President Joe Biden, in a moving speech to families of fallen troops on Friday, recounted the dark days following the tragic deaths of his wife and daughter and talked about having thoughts of suicide. “It was the first time in my career, in my life, I realized someone could go out – and I probably shouldn’t say this with the press here, but no, but it’s more important, you’re mo...

This Memorial Day, we honor the men and women who have defended our nation, and mark the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War. On Memorial Day, President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama will participate in an event at Arlington National Cemetery. The President, Vice President, First Lady and Dr. Biden will also attend an event at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall. Prior to these events, t...

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Aww! That's so sweet….as long as we get to hear it too! Luckily, we totally are! Justin Timberlake has decided to make love AND music with his fiancée, Jessica Biel. He is composing songs for the soundtrack of her next film, The Devil in the Deep Blue Sea. These will be the first original [...]

The late actor James Doohan, best known for his role as "Scotty" on the original Star Trek series, left instructions in his will that he wished to be buried in space. His family worked hard to fulfill that wish, and made arrangements with Celestis, Inc., a subdivision of the Houston-based company Space Services that offers [...]

LITTLE Mix’s Perrie ditched her account after grief from One Direction fans over Zayn

Westeros is filled with men of honor and some who are completely devoid of it. Last week Jon Snow's (Kit Harington) new wildling friend was giving him some grief. Meanwhile, the King...

I had a pleasant trip down to Richmond on Wednesday. I spoke to a small crowd of twenty people about evolution and creationism and all that jazz. I think most of the audience was to the left of me on these issue. Whenever I said something about evolution challenging religion it was all smiles and encouragement. When I said something about how many religious folks have made their peace with ...

JENNY Sages has taken out the Archibald Prize people's choice award for a self-portrait that captures her grief following the death of her husband.

Kate and Christopher Hollis accused the coroner of having 'compounded' their grief by banning their lawyer from asking key questions about their son’s tragic death in Chiswick, west London.

They say if you want to understand the future, you have to look at children. And if my 10-year-old cousin's chat history is any indication, we will soon be communicating in emoji, Egyptian hieroglyphics or some other kind of pictographic language that renders the 2,000-year-old Roman alphabet obsolete. Sometimes she sends me full e-mails with dozens of lines of straight emoticons, which either...

BEIJING (The Associated Press) — Family members stricken with grief knelt in the mud during a funeral for the victims of the violent hailstorm and torrential rain that swept through Minxian in northwestern China’s Gansu province. Officials say the death toll from a massive mudslide triggered by heavy rain and hail in a poor mountainous ...

How do you talk to children about death? Shelley Gilbert, founder of Grief Encounter, and Children's author Judith Kerr discuss.

SHE made sacrifices to get her family to Sydney's north shore - now this mum of two bears brunt of an ugly class war, courtesy of the PM.

When a celebrity dies, social media websites are awash with grieving fans. Not a fan? Then leave them be, writes Shane Richmond.

Send us photos of your garden dilemma. Expert Marjorie Harris will diagnose the problem and offer solutions

Emblematic Madrid basketball club suffers relegation for the first time

Biography claims Harry and William's grief drew them closer together.

In the wake of the demise of the Vancouver Playhouse and Dancap productions, we should be asking some serious questions

NFL legend Junior Seau was found dead at his Southern California home on Wednesday. He was 43 years old and mortally wounded by a gunshot to the…

Junior Seau was one of the NFL’s most feared linebackers in his prime. And over the course of his 20-year career, he became one of the sport’s great personalities and most respected individuals. In the immediate wake of the stunning news that the 43-year-old longtime San Diego Charger was found dead at his home Wednesday, past and present players shared their grief on Twitter. Read full articl...

Friends and relatives of Khalil Dale, the British aid worker murdered in Pakistan, on Tuesday said they pitied his killers and described their grief for a "true humanitarian".

The Lancet asks, “When should grief be classified as a mental illness?” (Feb 18, p 589). Our reply is, “never”. But some recently bereaved individuals are not simply grieving. They are also experiencing a full-blown major depressive episode. How can physicians help in such cases? That is the crux of the “bereavement exclusion” debate surrounding the forthcoming fifth edition of the Diagnostic a...

The Argentine has been left devastated by the news that the 41-year-old coach will be leaving Camp Nou at the end of the season and wanted to hide his grief from the press

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- The father of three girls killed in a Christmas morning fire said Tuesday he's channeling his grief into a project that supports school arts programs in their memory....

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's economy will contract a deeper than expected 5 percent this year, the country's central bank chief said on Tuesday, piling more pressure on to a citizenry already battered by crippling austerity and record joblessness.

Anders Behring Breivik tells Oslo court on his last day of evidence that he lost contact with friends and family after attacksAnders Behring Breivik has compared the pain he caused the families of his victims to his own situation, saying he lost contact with his friends and family after the 22 July attacks.The 33-year-old rightwing extremist, who has admitted killing 77 people last summer, show...

It was a day of triumph and disaster for World No. 1 Novak Djokovic as he booked his place in the quarterfinals of the Monte Carlo Masters just hours after learning of his grandfather's death.

The killing of two Chinese students in the United States last week failed to stir sympathy and grief among some of their compatriots in China.

Surprising thing about demise of Ceefax is not the mild grief surrounding it, but the fact that there has not been more.

The grief of the family of slain war photographer Anton Hammerl will seemingly never end.

With Peter Dinklage proving there's no height requirement for leading men with his Emmy-winning turn as Tyrion in HBO's "Game of Thrones," German bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff recently walked away from a odds-defying career of his own when the thalidomide-damaged singer announced his retirement at 52. In an interview with Der Spiegel, Quasthoff spoke frankly about his reasons for retirement --...

About 600 of Titanic's 900-strong crew were from Southampton. More than 500 people from the city lost their lives.

DEVASTATED parents of girl, 6, who died at campsite describe youngster as 'our whole world'

Allan Little recalls horrors of Bosnia war, 20 years on

Avoiding five mistakes -- including putting tax-inefficient funds in your taxable brokerage account and buying an ETF without learning what its tax treatment is -- can save you grief and put more money in your pocket.

The discovery of the body of a beloved teacher sent shudders of grief and anxiety through a small town.

Man Utd fanzine Red Issue attracts criticism for cover taking aim at social media reactions to Fabrice Muamba's cardiac arrest.

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Retailing at just £49.99 plus 20 per cent VAT, and weighing a mere 5lb, every PortaShrine comes loaded with wilted flowers, a tatty teddy bear and a badly written note of sympathy.

With 10 games to go, and a potential title decider in April, surely there is no excuse for the public display of grief shown by a Manchester City fan at Swansea on Sunday?

Year of change for tsunami children who lost their mother

The three surviving Monkees aren't planning to attend Davy Jones' funeral because it would likely bring too much unwanted attention to his family during their time of grief, the group's Micky Dolenz said.

As Godhra completes ten years of grief (and Modi completed his a few months back in October 2011), it’s time to look at how Modi’s tenure really has been. The two most often discussed topics in this context tend to be the “economic miracle” that is Gujarat and the communal state of affairs in the state. Modi’s supporters like to tom-tom the former; his detractors the latter.  Let’s take the e...

Two traditions united in grief reflected with compassion and dignity on a tragic loss of life, writes KATHY SHERIDAN

PEOPLE smugglers must take blame for deaths of asylum seekers whose boats smashed into rocks on Christmas Island, coroner said.

From the New Jersey church where Whitney Houston's singing career first took flight to the Beverly Hills hotel where her life abruptly ended, family and fans of the pop diva expressed their grief with prayer, tears and raw anguish.

THE daughters of Call The Midwife author Jennifer Worth tell how the show helped them grieve for their late mother

Moving onward from Harry Potter Daniel Radcliffe acquits himself admirably as Arthur Kipps a Victorian-era widower and father racked by a grief that may cost him his job as an attorney and earn him the wrath of an evil spirit who may be after Arthur's four-year-old son (Misha Handley) That's...

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) -- Anguished by an unthinkable scandal that shook a university and tarnished the proud football program, many in the Penn State community rallied around a common cause....

CORAL SPRINGS, Florida (Reuters) - He may not have much money or a ground game to speak of in Florida but Republican Rick Santorum will not pull out of the presidential race - much to the chagrin of rival Newt Gingrich and probably to the delight of a bruised Mitt Romney.

Whether it's a stubborn cowlick or a very high hairline, we all suffer hair grief. Here are five common complaints and how to work with them. ...

"We became friends and she is one of my favorite actresses," Dinklage says of his pal

Scientists have found new evidence that grief might actually break your heart. A new study shows that people grieving the death of a close loved one could have a heart attack risk that is 20 times higher than normal. from ABC News

The risk of a heart attack is increased shortly after bereavement, findings show.

Virtually all of us experience the loss of a loved one at some point in our life. So it is surprising that the serious study of grief is not much more than 30 years old. Yet in that time, we have made significant discoveries that have deepened our understanding of this phenomenon--and challenged widely held assumptions.In this column, we confront two common misconceptions about grief. The first...

Six days after a school bus accident last month killed 15 children in Fengxian county, the body of 10-year-old Zhao Xuanxuan was laid to rest by sobbing family members.

Holy shitballs. The North Koreans are taking their magnificent captor Kim Il Jong's death kinda hard. They haven't stopped crying. Here's some video of his funeral motorcade and you'd think Betty White tapped out of life. Sobs, people beating their chests, snot. Lots of snot. At :36, I think that dude just wiped his sadness mucous on that woman's hair. I hope h...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Sobbing mourners filed past the begonia-bedecked bier of late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, some appearing to shake with grief, in footage aired Wednesday on state television in the hours before his funeral....

Spirit of heartbroken families shines through, while political stability and a little progress are made in the wake of Stormont elections

Mourning centres have been set up across North Korea in a show of public grief over Kim Jong Il's death, but attention is shifting to his young son.

ANALYSIS:Kim Jong-il offered his people stability but at a price, and the fear they are now suffering is real, writesKATHLEEN TAYLOR

The late Christopher Hitchens came up with some valid points in his Vanity Fair essay, but if women want the truth about why they're not funny, they're going to have to look in the mirror.As fans of the late Christopher Hitchens cycle through the five stages of grief, it's interesting to see which of his opinions can still inspire the kind of anger that is unlikely to ever fade into acceptance....

Scenes of mass hysteria and grief among North Koreans appeared to be part of an official campaign to build support for Kim Jong-il’s successor, his third son, Kim Jong-un.

The public scenes of weeping and wailing - are North Koreans really grieving their dead dictator?

After her beloved father moved to Canada, Lisa Brinkworth found that her work and family commitments meant she didn't see or speak to him as often as she'd have liked. Here she reflects on the guilt that has intensified her grief, and the particular poignancy of the festive season.

Time unveiled the magazine’s perennial Person of the Year on Wednesday, opting to go with “The Protester” as the influential synecdoche of the past 12 months instead of a single individual who made big news this year. In a run-up to its big reveal, the magazine took a reader poll asking who the general public thought should be the person of the year and — perhaps unsurprising, given the outpour...

President Pratibha Patil expressed her grief and sorrow over the loss of lives in the fire at AMRI Hospital in Kolkata today.

KARACHI (Reuters) - Widow Hoori Fatima, 76, was still struggling with grief over the death of her son Ali Raza, the family’s only breadwinner, in late October. Wiping her tears away with her headscarf, Fatima said her son died of severe gastroenteritis and cold after they fled surging floodwaters in the Tando Allahyar district of Sindh, caused by torrential monsoon rains in August.“It rained do...

The loss of a loved one can really break your heart, scientists have warned.

ALEX FERGUSON has admitted his side's continuing injury woes are giving him grief

In which Research In Motion gets a new cheerleader: AT&T's Glenn Lurie.

FOR  Kim II-nam, the solution to grief was to dig up his father's grave, cremate the bones and pay to have the ashes transformed into beads.

A veteran San Diego County prosecutor has died in an apparent suicide, officials said Friday. Deputy Dist. Atty. Christine Trevino, 51, died Thursday night in Oceanside while sitting in her car at a traffic signal. She had worked for the...

STATE COLLEGE, Pa.--Last night I witnessed the aftermath of the brief, angry riot at Penn State: an overturned news van being righted by a bulldozer, debris from battered cars and upended trash cans littering the street, college kids in “Joe Knows Football” t-shirts stumbling away from College Avenue with pepper sprayed red eyes and tear-stained faces, courtesy of the police. The students had r...

Post-Gaddafi, Libyans sense both hope and anxiety during the Eid holiday, and insist politicians not squander war dead's sacrifice.