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Japanese Buddhist monks strutted their stuff in a contest highlighting sutra chanting skills, giving funeral sermons and loud karate chops.

• 09 декабря 2015, 17:41

Numb with grief, a young woman wept and called for her mother at a funeral in a small village in northwestern Russia for one of the victims of the plane crash inEgypt.

• 06 ноября 2015, 15:53

Grieving loved ones laid to rest some of the victims of the double suicide bombings in Ankara that left 97 dead, denouncing the government in the first funerals from modern Turkey's worst attack.

• 13 октября 2015, 13:01

Afghanistan's spy agency banned all mourning ceremonies for deceased Taliban leader Mullah Omar.

• 04 августа 2015, 11:23

Beau Biden, son of US Vice President Joe Biden, was a selfless "original" who made his own way in life, President Barack Obama said in a eulogy.

• 07 июня 2015, 11:28

Kazakhstan’s Prime Minister Karim Massimov has attended the state funeral service for the founding father of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew.

• 01 апреля 2015, 02:10

Hundreds of mourners gathered at a state funeral for former conservative prime minister Malcolm Fraser.

• 27 марта 2015, 12:00

The death of Singapore's founding leader on Monday has spawned unusual tributes and business ideas, ranging from the reverent to the ridiculous.

• 26 марта 2015, 16:45

Former president Bill Clinton will lead a delegation from the United States to the state funeral of Lee Kuan Yew.

• 26 марта 2015, 14:43

Singaporeans wept on the streets and queued in their thousands to pay tribute to founding leader Lee Kuan Yew.

• 25 марта 2015, 15:35

Hundreds of people attended the Islamic burial of the gunman who killed two people in twin shootings in Copenhagen last weekend.

• 21 февраля 2015, 13:31

The families of three Muslim students shot dead by a white neighbor in the US said an emotional farewell to their loved ones.

• 13 февраля 2015, 13:10

President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev has expressed condolences over the death of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah.

• 25 января 2015, 23:21

Turkish President Recep Tayyi Erdogan on Friday postponed a planned trip to Somalia to attend the funeral of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah.

• 23 января 2015, 15:01

Saudi Arabia's elderly King Abdullah died and was replaced by his half-brother Salman as the absolute ruler of the world's top oil exporter.

• 23 января 2015, 14:54

Simmering tensions between the city of New York's police force and its top official boiled over again into public view.

• 30 декабря 2014, 12:40

Tens of thousands of officers paid tribute to one of their own at a New York funeral, as emotions ran high over recent protests against police violence.

• 28 декабря 2014, 10:35

Family and friends staged a party funeral to bid farewell to Hannah Witheridge, one of two British tourists murdered on a Thai holiday island.

• 11 октября 2014, 14:23

Haiti is preparing an appropriate send-off for former dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier.

• 07 октября 2014, 11:42

Fashion, film and comedy stars joined grieving relatives to say goodbye to comedy legend Joan Rivers at a New York funeral.

• 08 сентября 2014, 11:46