Seven ceramic funerary urns, two of them large in size, were found beneath the roots of a fallen tree in a várzea area (flooded land) of Lago do Cochila in the Brazilian state of Amazonas. Lago do ...

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At least 300 cremation urns containing human remains have been dumped in Lake Zurich near the controversial Swiss suicide clinic Dignitas. "After 50 we stopped counting," said Roman Ruetz, a police ...

A homeless man has been arrested in Santa Rosa on suspicion of stealing urns with human ashes and stashing them in a stolen car, police said Friday. Police spotted John Simpkins, 37, retrieving items ...

Waste workers were left stunned when they discovered two urns containing human ashes among a delivery of rubbish. The two unassuming brown plastic containers even had stickers displaying the names of ...