No Homecoming for Preserved Head
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A French court has barred the proposed repatriation of the mummified and tattooed head of a Maori warrior.
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When the mayor of Rouen, in Normandy, arranged recently to return the mummified, tattooed head of a Maori warrior to New Zealand, Franceâs Ministry of Culture stepped in to block him.
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NANAIMO, British Columbia - A bus passenger checking an unattended purse for identification found a human skull inside, Royal Canadian Mounted Police said.
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An Aboriginal delegation will travel to Sweden this month to repatriate ancestral remains, that were taken from Australia by a Swedish explorer in the early 1900's. The retrieval team includes representatives ...
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Searchers looking for the remains of two mountaineers who vanished on Mount Hood last winter found no trace of the climbers when a search resumed Saturday.
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OJIYA, Japan  - Rescuers who saved a toddler  buried for four days by Japan's deadliest earthquake in a  decade were unable perform a second miracle for his sister on  Thursday, as close to 100,000 people remained in makeshift  shelters.
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By Lisa Black, Chicago Tribune  Sep. 12--The Lake Forest Historic Preservation Commission denied a developer's request Monday night to demolish a chapel at the former Barat College after alumni and preservationists objected.
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By John Castellucci; Journal Staff Writer  An ordinance to acquire the historical structure to protect it from a developer fails to gain passage.
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No date given for resumption of six-party disarmament process.
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The NCAA yesterday denied the University of Southern California&#39;s request to restore the college football eligibility of all-American wide receiver Mike Williams.
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By S.J  I REFER to the report "The life drains out of Pedu Lake" (NST, Jan 31).   The failure of the resorts at Pedu Lake has little or nothing to do with the discovery of old graves, lack of promotion or remoteness as claimed.
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Missing in action, presumed dead. And eventually he faded from living memory. His generation passed away, with everyone who loved him, everyone who mourned him. Time rendered him faceless. He was just a name, one of hundreds chiseled in limestone in a cemetery chapel 4,000 miles from home.
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By MATT WEISER McClatchy News Service  The push behind its likely removal as an endangered species has some worried.   SACRAMENTO, Calif.
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DERA BUGTI, Pakistan -- Doubt swirled around yesterday's funeral for a tribal chief killed in a Pakistani military raid after officials rejected demands to open his padlocked coffin for inspection and buried it in a different location than where his family wanted.
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New Delhi: The Taj Mahotsav to mark 350 years of the Mughal monument in Agra may not start on Monday, as the Supreme Court declined to give permission to hold such an event near the 17th century monument without getting the views of the ASI and the Union
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The missing handlebar moustache of forest brigand Veerappan has triggered speculation that it wasn&#39;t the sandalwood smuggler who was killed in Monday&#39;s encounter with the Tamil Nadu Special Task Force near Dharmapuri.
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Missing canoeist John Darwin has been denied police bail and will remain in custody.