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Rome and the world bid farewell to Pope Francis with massive funeral and humble burial

April 26, 2025

Presidents, royalty and simple mourners bade farewell to Pope Francis on Saturday at a solemn funeral ceremony, where a cardinal appealed for the pontiff's legacy of caring for migrants, the downtrodden and the environment to be kept alive.

Eco-burials take root in funeral industry

April 05, 2025

Relatives opt for tree and sea final services as traditions change

Officials find 1,000 tonnes more cadmium waste in Samut Sakhon

SUNDAY, APRIL 07, 2024

Industry officials and police recovered another 1,000 tonnes cadmium waste in a factory in Samut Sakhon on Sunday, raising to 9,500 tonnes the amount of the hazardous waste taken from a zinc smelter in Tak and inadequately disposed of.

Archaeologists unearth secrets of Polands 'Vampire' burials

MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2023

In the summer of 2022, a team of archaeologists from Poland's Nicolas Copernicus University made an unsettling discovery. The 400-year-old remains of a young woman, buried in an unmarked graveyard on unconsecrated ground, with a padlock on her foot and an iron sickle across her neck.

Signs of Salome, apochryphal nurse to baby Jesus, unearthed in Israel

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2022

Fresh excavations of a cave reputed to be the burial place of Salome, apocryphal nurse to the newborn Jesus, have uncovered evidence that it was both an important Jewish tomb and a Christian pilgrimage site, archeologists say.

The burial of a dictator revives buried angst in the Philippines

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 02, 2016

A place for ex-dictator Ferdinand Marcos in the Heroes’ Cemetery has raised public anger