LONDON (Reuters) - Archaeologists said on Friday they had discovered a lost burial ground during excavations for a massive new rail project in London which might hold the bodies of some 50,000 people who were killed by the "Black Death" pla... [Full Article]
Forensic testing has proven that two more victims of the 2010 plane crash in Russia that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others were misidentified and buried in the wrong graves, Polish prosecutors said Wednesday. (Source: Associated Pr... [Full Article]
BERLIN (Reuters) - A church in western Germany has bowed to public pressure and allowed the parents of a soccer-mad nine-year old boy who died from a brain tumor to erect a gravestone with a ball logo after a Facebook campaign spawned more than 100,0... [Full Article]
The government of Kashmir has rejected wide-scale DNA testing of bodies in thousands of unmarked graves despite pleas by the families of those who disappeared during two decades of fighting in the restive region. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
Iraq wants to put the legacy of murderous dictator Saddam Hussein behind it, but faces a huge need for specialists to excavate mass graves thought to contain at least half a million unidentified victims. (Source: AFP)... [Full Article]
After days of relentless shelling and sniper attacks, thousands of Syrian refugees streamed across the border into Turkey with horrific accounts Friday of mass graves, massacres and burned-out homes. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
Almost all the Australian graves in a Commonwealth war cemetery in Libya have been vandalised, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Wednesday as she stepped up calls on the interim regime to act. (Source: AFP)... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - A guitar player stands next to graves while waiting for customers at a cemetery on the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez February 28, 2012. Musicians offer to play the deceased's favourite tunes during funeral services. REUTERS/Jose Luis ... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - A gravestone is seen damaged by an Islamist group in protest at the burning of the Koran by U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, in Benghazi Military Cemetery February 24, 2012. The cemetery, which is home to soldiers who died during the second ... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - Boys play amongst their village's ancestral graves located near their homes in remote Kodi Pangedo village, in Indonesia's West Sumba province, February 16, 2012. A two-day Pasola War Festival was held here on February 16 and 17. ... [Full Article]