In Algeria, the town of Jijel erupts into violence as angry youths clash with police after a shopkeeper sets himself on fire. In Tunisia, a TV chief on trial for blasphemy is fined - media rights activists say that sends the wrong message, while Islamist hardliners say it does not go far enough. Finally, in Morocco, authorities warn young people turning to informal Urfi marriages that without legal recognition, things can go badly wrong.
At least 20 people, including parliament member Mutalib Bik, died after a suicide bomber struck a funeral for a tribal leader in north-east Afghanistan on Sunday. Some 50 others were wounded in the attack.
A French mathematics teacher who used petrol to set herself alight in front of students in the French town of Béziers died as a result of her injuries on Friday. Pupils at the Jean Moulin secondary school are receiving psychological counselling.
Papers are leading on secret documents obtained in Libya - from MI6 cooperation with Tripoli to the possibility Chinese companies sought to sell arms to Gaddafi as late as July. China's apparent lust for wealth, meanwhile, gets a slamming in a report on a high suicide rate among the country's super-rich. That's the focus for Monday 5th September 2011.
A former Polish deputy prime minister known for his populist stance was found dead in his Warsaw party office in what police have described as an apparent suicide. Andrzej Lepper (pictured) was 57.
Kenyan Olympic marathon champion Samuel Wanjiru died after leaping off the balcony at his Rift Valley home in Nyahururu late Sunday. Wanjiru, 24, became the first Kenyan to win gold in the marathon after competing in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Voters in Zurich rejected Sunday proposals to ban assisted suicide and "suicide tourism" - whereby foreigners travel to Switzerland to commit suicide. Forecasts show 80 percent of voters did not support the initiatives.
An employee of France Telecom-Orange set himself on fire in his office parking lot on Tuesday, reviving the painful memory of a string of suicides that has gripped the telecommunications giant for three years.
Some 38 people were killed and dozens injured Saturday in a suicide attack on Shiite pilgrims leaving a shrine north of Baghdad. The second of its kind in just a week, the bomber targeted pilgrims as they left the site by bus.
A former army chief who was accused of embezzling military funds died in an apparent suicide on Tuesday during a visit to his mother’s grave. The 65-year-old allegedly misappropriated thousands of dollars worth of army money.
