North Korea has handed over the remains of a British pilot who died in the Korean War in 1952.

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N Korea hands over RAF pilot body

Osama Bin Laden has been buried at sea after the U.S. figured no country would be willing to accept his remains. His corpse was handled in “accordance with Islamic practice,” a White House official tells Politico, which includes burial within 24 hours…

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A lawyer with the District’s Public Defender Service has petitioned a D.C. Superior Court judge to order D.C. police to search a Virginia landfill for the remains of slain teenager Latisha M. Frazier. Authorities had said they would not authorize a search because it would cost more than $1 million and could jeopardize the safety of the recovery officers.

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I have walked through the barren remains of Babylon in Iraq and the ancient Roman city of Antioch, the capital of Roman Syria, which now lies buried in silt deposits. I have visited the marble ruins of Leptis Magna, once one of the most important agricultural centers in the Roman Empire, now isolated in the desolate drifts of sand southeast of Tripoli. I have climbed at dawn up the ancient temples in Tikal, while flocks of brightly colored toucans leapt through the jungle foliage below. I have stood amid the remains of the ancient Egyptian city of Luxor along the Nile read more

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This Time We’re Taking the Whole Planet With Us

When the remains of a Vietnam War soldier buried in the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery were identified in 1998 using DNA, Pentagon officials proudly said that the days of interring service members as “unknown” could well be over.

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For first time in decades, Arlington National Cemetery must bury multiple ‘unknowns’

CAIRO – Fatema Salah said her students had never sung the Egyptian national anthem quite the way they did Sunday, the first day back to school for most Cairo pupils. Before, they shuffled through the morning ritual, heads down and sleepy. This time, standing in the school’s shady courtyard for the…

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Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a 3-year-old child from the Ice Age, the oldest cremated human remains ever discovered in North America. The discoverers dated the child’s death to 11,500 years ago, according to research by the University…

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Ice Age Child’s Remains Found in Alaska

Twenty years ago, as Americans were celebrating Valentine’s Day, Iraqi husbands and fathers in the Amiriyah section of Baghdad were peeling the remains of their wives and children off the walls and floor of a large neighborhood bomb shelter. The men had left the shelter the evening before, so their wives would have some measure of privacy as they sought refuge from the U.S.-led coalition bombing campaign, which was at its most intense pre-ground war stage. read more

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Ray McGovern | Recalling the Slaughter of Innocents

A team of divers say they have discovered the remains of the USS Revenge, a ship commanded by the Navy’s Oliver Hazard Perry that wrecked in 1811.

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Divers ‘find USS Revenge remains’

An Ohio man pleaded guilty Thursday and received life in prison without parole after he admitted to killing a woman, her 11-year-old son and a neighbor and then stuffing their remains into a nearby tree. Matthew Hoffman, 30, also pleaded guilty to…

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Officials in western Austria say exhumations will take place at a psychiatric hospital thought to contain the remains of Nazi victims.

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Austrian officials say exhumations are to take place at a psychiatric hospital thought to contain the remains of Nazi victims.

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Authorities plan to announce results Monday of tests on bones found in Georgia that may be the remains of Kristi Cornwell, who went missing more than a year ago.

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Neanderthals cooked and ate plants and vegetables, a new study of their remains reveals.

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Archaeologists in Spain have unearthed the remains of a possible family of 12 Neanderthals who were cannibalised some 49,000 years ago.

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Ancient family was cannibalised