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Odd, really, that the name Freddie Spencer Chapman doesn't figure higher up the roll call of great British heroes. In fact, you've probably never heard of him at all. Yet for three and a half years during the second world war, this unassuming adventurer-naturalist lived behind Japanese lines in the jungles of Malaya, blowing up

The tombstone marking the grave of Adolf Hitler's parents, a place of pilgrimage for neo-Nazis, has been removed from an upper Austrian village cemetery at the request of a descendant, and the grave is ready for a new burial, officials said on Friday.

Extreme cold and snowstorms have disrupted transport and closed schools in Scandinavia while strong winds and heavy rain in western Europe have caused flooding and at least one death. Temperatures fell below -40C in the Nordic region for a second day in a row on Wednesday. In Kvikkjokk-rrenjarka in Swedish Lapland, the mercury dropped to

Celebratory wakes, lavish funerals, fanfare bands and dramatic displays are just some of Haitis death rites, which, like its weddings, are often extravagant social events despite the countrys poverty

David Zink, 55, who sexually assaulted Amanda Morton before tying her to a cemetery tree and killing her, dies on Tuesday after losing appeal A Missouri man who sexually attacked a 19-year-old woman before tying her to a tree in a cemetery and killing her was executed on Tuesday after the US supreme court and