Back from the dead

For centuries, a mysterious mummified body has been kept in the crypt of the church of St Thomas am Blasenstein in Upper Austria. Nicknamed “the air-dried chaplain” the body was believed to be the rem

“I hope you don’t f***ing drop me. The way they’re carrying me, you’d think I’d died of f***ing lead poisoning.” Funerals are never an easy experience, and can be made considerably harder when the dec

Three people who have declared themselves to be a “lost African tribe” have set up home in woodlands near Jedburgh in the Scottish Borders, proclaimed it to be the “kingdom of Kubala”, and changed the

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Our bodies are vessels for life, but in death they undergo a cascade of chemical and biological changes

Me and my boy have a special reason to celebrate