Three Foxconn workers have committed suicide at a factory in China in the past three weeks, a labour rights group said Saturday. All three jumped to their deaths at a plant in the central city of Zhengzhou run by the Taiwanese electronics giant.    A 30-year-old married man killed himself on Tuesday following the similar deaths of a 23-year-old woman on April 27 and a 24-year-old man three days earlier, media reports said. "The reasons for these building jumpings are unclear," the New York-based China Labor Watch rights group said in a statement.

WASHINGTON - Despite Democratic fears, predictions of the demise of President Barack Obama's agenda appear exaggerated after a week of cascading controversies, political triage by the administration and party leaders in Congress and lack of evidence to date of wrongdoing close to the Oval Office. "Absolutely not," Steven Miller, the recently resigned acting head of the Internal Revenue Service, responded Friday when asked if he had any contact with the White House about targeting conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status for special treatment.

Japan Restoration Party co-leader Toru Hashimoto defended himself Saturday on his recent remarks about wartime sexual services for soldiers, criticizing media organizations for running misleading reports. Hashimoto said in a television program he himself never tolerated forcing women into such services, after coming under a barrage of criticism for saying the wartime system of so-called comfort women, a euphemistic term in Japan, was necessary.

Duty Editor: James Hossack Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + France becomes 14th country to allow gay marriage + Sixty-seven dead in bomb attacks on Iraq's Sunnis + $1m in jewellery stolen from Cannes Film Festival France-politics-gay,WRAP PARIS France becomes the 14th country to legalise same-sex marriage after President Francois Hollande signs it into law following months of bitter political debate. 600 words 0530 GMT by Abhik Kumar Chanda. Graphic. Picture. Video.