Police in Bethlehem, New York found the bodies of two suicide victims and a woman who failed to kill herself with drug overdose on New Year's Day. The fatalities are believed to be a 73-year-old man and his mother-in-law in her 80s. Both died from overdose of different prescription medicines. The survivor is believed to be the man's 58-year-old wife. They are believed to be have made a pact to commit suicide on Jan. 1 at their house along Stony Brook Drive.

A life-sized sculpture of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud depicted as hanging from a noose alarmed residents of Grand Rapids, who saw it hanging from the top of the Trade Center Building - a scene that very accurately resembled a suicide case. The sculpture, "Man Hanging Out" created by David Cerny, which showed a life-sized body of a man hanging from a rod by his hand, is currently touring the world and being displayed in a number of cities in Europe and the United States.

A woman died after jumping from the rooftop of a department store in Tokyo. A passer-by was knocked unconscious after breaking the woman's fall, authorities said Tuesday. Local Police Spokesman Tetsuhiko Kanehara said they responded immediately to the scene after phone-calls from other passers-by, finding the man and woman collapsed and bleeding on the street infront of the Ikebukuro Parco Department Store in Tokyo's Toshima-ku at around 1 p. m. on Tuesday.

Two women in their early 20s were found dead inside a car after they apparently gassed themselves in Japan's latest suicide pact, police said Thursday. Investigators discovered two empty bottles that contained a bathwater additive and detergent, leading them to suspect that the two mixed the two liquids to generate toxic hydrogen sulfide gas. The two elementary school classmates were identified as 21- and 22-year-old women from Namegawa, Saitama Prefecture.

A Chinese teenager, who said he wanted to test his quickness in dodging a rushing train while sitting on railway tracks, failed in his stunt on Friday. The incident happened at a railway in Fengxian District in Shanghai, China. The alert train driver stepped on the brakes and managed to stop before the locomotive could hit the fearless teen, according to the Shanghai Daily.