Gandhi's ashes to rest at sea
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Some of the final ashes of Mohandas K. Gandhi, India's freedom hero and peace apostle, also known as Mahatma, will be scattered over the Arabian Sea after his family objected to a museum's plans to display them.
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A memorial service is to be held for the crew of the fishing boat Meridian which went down in the North Sea.
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GREYTOWN, Nicaragua  - Resting his work-worn hands  on a marble headstone, Nicaraguan caretaker Charly Thomas  points to the epitaph of an American sailor who died in the  Caribbean port of Greytown in the 1850s.
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ABU DIS - A grandson of the legendary Indian leader Mohandas Gandhi said yesterday that Israel&#39;s West Bank barrier reminded him of apartheid.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida  - Former Playboy centerfold Anna Nicole Smith will be buried in the Bahamas after most of the parties feuding over her corpse reached a deal on Thursday to lay her to rest next to her dead son.
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Actor Amitabh Bachchan on Thursday immersed the ashes of his mother Teji Bachchan at the holy confluence of the Ganga and Yamuna in Allahabad.
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Hundreds of Tamil people gather in Trafalgar Square to remember those killed in the tsunami and highlight the plight of those who survived.
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PORT BLAIR, India  - Tempers flared over the  sluggish pace of relief efforts in India's remote and  restricted Andamans and Nicobars on Sunday as hundreds of  bodies lay scattered around the islands a week after the  tsunami struck.
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The co-founder of Atlantic Records, Ahmet Ertegun, is laid to rest in Turkey following his death last week.
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MALEGAON, India  - A Muslim-majority town in   western India buried its dead as troops patrolled the streets   on Saturday to prevent religious riots, a day after bomb blasts   killed 32 people and wounded dozens.
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The remains of the mother of Russia's last tsar is being buried in St Petersburg, in keeping with her final wishes.
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Kusol Wetchakul offers prayers for the soul of his sister Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2004, at dawn along the beach near Khao Lak, Thailand.
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Marlon Brando's ashes are scattered in California and Tahiti after a small memorial service.
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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the iconic guru who sought to blend Eastern spirituality and Western science to harness the mind's power and heal the world, was cremated Monday in a tumultuous ceremony at one of Hinduism's holiest sites.
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The coffin of Yasser Arafat, draped with the Palestinian flag, was bound for Ramallah in the West Bank Friday, following a formal funeral on a military compound near Cairo.
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Yasir Arafat was laid to rest in a marble-and-stone grave today in Ramallah, on the West Bank, after his flag-draped coffin was carried through a crowd of chanting Palestinians
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COLOMBO: Mass funerals were underway in Sri Lanka as the death toll from the tidal wave disaster neared 12,000 with decomposed bodies pulled from washed out trains, cars and devastated buildings, officials said.