A city in north-eastern Spain installs solar panels at its main cemetery in a move to generate power for homes.

Doctors in Sicily have claimed state money for thousands of deceased patients still on their medical lists, Italian media says.

A court hears how the family of Michael McIlveen tried to save his life when he arrived home after being attacked.

Actor Anthony Edwards is to appear in the final series of US medical drama ER, playing his deceased character Dr Mark Greene.

A Kent council makes its burial and cremation records available online to budding genealogists.

A Latvian man is jailed for four years for his part in a serious assault which led to the death of a Scottish man in Belfast.

There's nothing cheerful about a coffin - until you cover it with colourful pictures. The idea of decorating caskets is helping some people come to terms with that only sombre certainty we all have in life.

The EU's highest court rules that same-sex couples in legal unions may be entitled to a deceased partner's pension.

Two teenagers admit killing a man by hitting him with a wine bottle as he lay on the floor.

Bernard Manning did more than most to seal his reputation after death by penning his own obituary. The deceased are rarely so co-operative, leaving obituary writers open to the pitfalls of their craft, as Bob Chaundy reports from the 9th Great Obituary Writers International Conference.

The net acts more and more as an outlet for grieving in developed societies but not all its limitations are obvious.

Dounreay reveals that post mortem samples of two deceased employees were sent for radioactivity analysis.

An official inquiry is launched to examine if tissue was taken from deceased nuclear plant workers without consent.

Half of all Britons have not made a will. A legal expert looks at the risks these people are running.

Keith Richards joked that he snorted his father's ashes. So can you put cremains anywhere you like?

Deceased Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith left her entire estate to her son Daniel, who died last year, it emerges.

Once a torture victim of now deceased dictator Augusto Pinochet, British doctor and author Sheila Cassidy has said she is pleased the former Chilean ruler is dead.

Experts investigating the death of Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko say there is no radiation risk to those who had contact with the deceased.

The vote of a deceased Sinn Fein Assembly member may continue to be exercised even though the party has not filled his post.

The family of a deceased baby boy say his body was released for burial with his brain missing.