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A Chinese man is divorcing his wife after she pretended to hang herself as an April Fool's joke It happened when Mr Lin, of Shanghai, came home on April 1 after a business trip, reports the Shanghai Evening Post. "When I opened the door, I saw a black object swinging in the air. When I turned on the light I was shocked to see my wife had hanged herself," he said. Lin immediately called police and the property office. Office staff helped Lin take down the 'body' while waiting for the police.

Psychologists and mental health professionals in England say that abortion may cause women mental health problems. They have called for doctors to revise what they tell women who are considering an abortion. The call came in a letter published in the London Times. The letter said, in part, “Research published in The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry has shown that women who had abortions had twice the level of mental health problems and three times the risk of major depressive illness as those who had given birth or never been pregnant. Since women having abortions can no longer be...