Indonesian village’s yearly ritual of digging up its dead to give them a wash and clothe them

They say the dead live on in our hearts and minds - but in one Indonesian village, the deceased continue to walk the earth in a rather more literal, zombie-like fashion.   Families in Toraja in South Sulawesi dig up the bodies of their dead relatives before washing, grooming and dressing them in fancy new clothes. Even dead children are exhumed - two of these photos show the skeleton of a baby wrapped in a print...

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Manchester United transfer spree is amazing- Alex Ferguson

Sir Alex Ferguson says he is glad he is not in charge of Manchester United's finances after the club splashed out 153 million pounds in the summer transfer window. New manager Louis van Gaal, backed by executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward, brokered big-money deals for Luke Shaw, Marcos Rojo, Ander Herrera, Daley Blind, Angel Di Maria and, on deadline day, a loan move for Radamel Falcao. The 59.7 million-pound signing of Di Maria from Real...

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Fight against Ebola: WHO approve use of Ebola survivors' blood for treatment

The blood of patients who recover from Ebola should be used to treat others, the World Health Organization has announced. West Africa is facing the largest Ebola outbreak in history and more than 2,000 people have died. A global group of experts have been meeting to assess the experimental therapies that could contain Ebola. The WHO also announced that Ebola vaccines could be used on the frontline by November. Blood medicine People...

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AM NOT AN ANGEL- POPE FRANCIS

It was a once-in-a-lifetime kind of opportunity: teenagers from five continents speaking directly with Pope Francis through a Google video chat. The students from schools in Australia, Israel, Turkey, South Africa and El Salvador heard advice from the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, speaking Thursday from the Vatican in his native Spanish. “In life,” the Pope from Argentina told them, “you can (do) either one of two opposite things:...

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Clinic where Joan River died faces investigations amid claims she was given same drug that killed the King of Pop 'Michael Jackson'

Joan Rivers may have been given the same drug that killed Michael Jackson when she went into cardiac and respiratory arrest at a New York clinic, it has been sensationally claimed today. The 81-year-old comedy legend slipped into a coma and never regained consciousness after being sedated for an endoscopy procedure. She died Thursday afternoon. The New York State Department of health has launched an investigation into Yorkville Endoscopy,...

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