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Every once in a while, Kumiko Kano meets a group of people with whom she has decided to spend eternity, one of a growing number in Japan who are shunning the expense and commitment of a traditional family grave.

• 04 июля 2014, 10:20

Police in Japan are probing a possible family suicide after a mother and her three small children plunged to their deaths from an apartment complex, they said.

• 17 июня 2014, 09:44

Malaysia Airlines' insurer has begun paying the families of passengers onboard Flight MH370 $50,000 each in initial compensation three months after the jet disappeared, a government official said

• 13 июня 2014, 12:41

A Guatemalan woman who used to pick coffee and tend sheep -- and who will turn 121 in November -- could be the world's oldest by far, a national newspaper reported.

• 28 мая 2014, 12:45

Dive teams raced Friday to pull more than 100 bodies from a sunken South Korean ferry as storm clouds loomed and the victims' families angrily pressed officials to wrap up the recovery effort.

• 25 апреля 2014, 14:06

Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez is in "very fragile" condition and at risk of complications while recovering at his Mexico City home from a recent hospitalization, his family said.

• 16 апреля 2014, 10:56

A family of four has been found dead in a suburb of Pavlodar.

• 09 апреля 2014, 17:16

Family, friends and fans of Marvin Gaye came together Wednesday to pay joyful hommage the late Motown legend and native Washingtonian on what would have been his 75th birthday.

• 04 апреля 2014, 10:40

Quadruplets have been born in South Kazakhstan Oblast for the first time in a decade.

• 31 марта 2014, 12:53

Syria's civil war has forced more than nine million people from their homes, creating the world's largest displaced population, the UN said on Friday, describing the continuing conflict as "unconscionable".

• 14 марта 2014, 16:51

A famous Kazakhstan alpinist Maksut Zhumayev suggests popularizing picnics in the mountains through building the necessary facilities.

• 13 марта 2014, 12:36

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has become a father again at the age of 56 after his wife gave birth to their third child in India.

• 07 марта 2014, 14:47

A Sri Lankan family has stumbled upon the remains of at least nine bodies buried in the garden of their home, police said Saturday, the latest mass grave to be discovered in the country's former war zone.

• 02 марта 2014, 17:43

The joy of being reunited for the first time in decades turned to grief for North and South Korean families Saturday as a rare cross-border visit ended, with participants unlikely to ever see their relatives again.

• 23 февраля 2014, 18:44

A group of 82 elderly, frail South Koreans, two of them in ambulances, left for the North Korean border Thursday to attend the first reunion in more than three years for families divided by the Korean War.

• 20 февраля 2014, 18:23

Grey-haired and grinning, two dozen couples hold champagne flutes at a Warsaw ceremony in their honour. They survived 50 years of marriage and in Poland, that is reason enough for a presidential medal.

• 13 февраля 2014, 09:54

David Beckham and his brood turned out in force to support wife Victoria's runway show at New York Fashion Week on Sunday.

• 10 февраля 2014, 10:26

North and South Korea were set to hold talks Wednesday on resuming reunions for families separated by the Korean War -- an emotive issue that Pyongyang has been accused of exploiting as a bargaining chip.

• 05 февраля 2014, 13:33

For Salvadoran couple Ricardo and Maria Julia Alvarenga, the reappearance of their son after his incredible story of survival adrift in the Pacific for 13 months is nothing short of a miracle.

• 05 февраля 2014, 12:13

A Hong Kong tycoon has withdrawn his $130 million "marriage bounty" to find his lesbian daughter a male suitor after she defended her sexuality in a heartfelt open letter, but emphatically refused to accept her partner into the family.

• 03 февраля 2014, 17:54