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Lifestyle

The fascinating history behind European pet cemeteries

A new book by author and photographer Paul Koudounaris explores the endearing and enigmatic ways we memorialise our lost animals.

31/10/2024

Green News

Spain opens first public pet cemetery in Málaga

Spain's first public pet cemetery offers a final resting place for pets along with psychological support for owners.

27/06/2024

Green News

Valencia’s cemeteries to become the country’s largest urban solar farm

The project has been dubbed RIP, standing for Requiem in Power.

31/05/2024

Denmark

Danish stonemason's eco-friendly gravestones challenge tradition

A Danish stonemason is changing the way cemeteries and funerals contribute to CO2 emissions by designing an eco-friendly gravestone.

27/04/2024

Eco-Innovation

This French town is building a solar canopy over its cemetery

Residents in Saint-Joachim can join this unusual community energy scheme for just €5.

12/03/2024

World News

Without a trace: The nameless graves along the Balkan migration route

As migrants travel along the Balkan route towards Western Europe, NGOs are trying to keep track of those who lose their lives, but many tombstones remain nameless.

07/12/2023

Culture news

Cairo’s 1,000-year-old City of the Dead cemetery razed for new highway

Major Islamic figures, prominent Egyptian politicians, artists and scholars are buried in the cemetery.

12/09/2023

Ukraine

Ukrainians visit graves on first Sunday after Orthodox Easter

On the first Sunday after Orthodox Easter, Ukraine remembered its fallen soldiers that died at the peril of Russia's full-scale invasion

24/04/2023

Turkey

Teenagers arrested on suspicion of vandalising famous Jewish cemetery

Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has described the incident as a "heinous attack".

15/07/2022

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One of South America's largest cemeteries fumigated for dengue fever

Health brigades spray one of South America's largest cemeteries in Lima to eradicate the dengue-transmitting mosquito and collect larvae in an attempt to control a new outbreak of the endemic disease in Peru, which has killed about 30 people this year.

02/06/2022

Poland

Poland opens COVID-19 vaccination centres near cemeteries

Polish cemeteries reopened on Sunday after authorities decided to close them a year ago due to coronavirus restrictions.

01/11/2021

Hungary

Volunteers restore one of the world's largest Jewish cemeteries

Nature has taken over much of the 130-year-old site.

27/07/2021

Italy

200 coffins fall into Ligurian Sea after Italy landslide

200 coffins fall into Ligurian Sea after Italy landslide

23/02/2021

Spain

Archaeologists discover ancient Islamic necropolis in northern Spain

Workmen came across the human remains while widening a road in Tauste, a small town in the province of Zaragoza. Archaeologists then uncovered 400 tombs containing more than 4,500 bodies dating from the 8th century.

01/12/2020

Saudi Arabia

Three injured in 'explosive' attack at a cemetery in Jeddah

Several people have been injured in an "improvised explosive device attack" on an international Armistice ceremony at a non-Muslim cemetery in the Saudi city of Jeddah.

11/11/2020

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Filipinos flock to cemeteries ahead of Day of the Dead closure

Thousands of people wearing masks and face shields poured into cemeteries in Manila Wednesday for their last chance to visit dead loved ones ahead of a government-ordered closure of graveyards for All Saints' Day.

28/10/2020

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Azerbaijani families grieve sons killed in Nagorno-Karabakh

Family members grieve at the grave of an Azerbaijani soldier killed in Nagorno-Karabakh.

15/10/2020

Germany

Volunteers search for missing soldiers 75 years after Second World War

Volunteers work to dig up bodies in Klessin, Germany to bring closure to families whose loved ones have only ever been a statistic.

05/05/2020

Germany

Grave of top Nazi official dug up in Berlin

Heydrich's grave was unmarked, suggesting the perpetrators had insider knowledge.

16/12/2019

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How do you dig the perfect grave? Hungarian gravediggers will show you

Gravediggers in Hungary have been competing to win the prize for the best-dug grave.

09/09/2019