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Ritual as Maori bones return home

The bones of twelve maori people which have lain in boxes in the National Museum and Gallery of Wales in Cardiff since the 1920s have been handed over to New Zealand at a special ceremony.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/8361347.stm

2009-11-16

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Ghana's amazing coffins

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11879532

2010-12-06

Ghana coffin burial death art

Osama Bin Laden death: World a 'safer place'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13261064

The compound in Abbottabad is just a few hundred metres from the Pakistan Military Academy - the country's equivalent of West Point or Sandhurst. US officials said Bin Laden was shot in the head after resisting. His body was consigned to the sea after a burial service on the USS Carl Vinson. "The deceased's body was washed and then placed in a white sheet. The body was placed in a weighted bag. A military officer read...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13261064

2011-05-02

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Osama Bin Laden: What happened to his body?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13261680

2011-05-02

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