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The article discusses the claim that some of the teams which have been sent to retrieve the bodies of suspected Ebola victims in Liberia are collecting bribes from victims' families in exchange for leaving the bodies and issuing death certificates which state that the people died of other causes.

The article reports that forensics officials raised the possibilities that more bodies of victims of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crash are still buried at the Ukraine crash site, and identification of the said victims may took weeks or months to complete.

The article reports on the discovery of 26 dead bodies in three vehicles near the center of Guadalajara, Mexico on November 24, 2011.

The article reports on the efforts of disaster mortuary team to identify dead bodies in the aftermath of tornadoes that swept across Joplin, Missouri.

Searchers recovered a body from the Mississippi River near where Brian Reed, the brother of Baltimore Ravens safety Ed Reed, jumped into the water after being confronted by a deputy sheriff earlier this month in St. Rose, La. Tim Miller of Texas EquuSearch told WWL-TV that although searchers could not confirm anything until after an autopsy, they believe it is Reed's body. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Telephone records from 2009 belonging to one of four murdered female prostitutes found on Long Island were traced to budget motels about 15 miles from the beach where the bodies were found, a law enforcement official said Tuesday. The woman, Melissa Barthelemy, 24, is the second of the victims to be linked to a nearby motel, in a case that the authorities consider to be the work of a serial killer. Another victim, Megan Waterman, who was 22 and from Maine, was last seen at a motel in Hauppauge, N.Y. All four women, according to the authorities in Suffolk County, advertised their services on Craigslist. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- After a three-day journey, the 10 bodies arrived back here on Sunday and were laid out in the morgue of the Afghan National Army's military hospital. F.B.I. agents and their counterparts from Britain, Germany and Afghanistan confirmed that they were all members of an American-based relief group, the authorities said. The killings of the Nuristan Eye Camp Expedition, a medical team from the relief group, the International Assistance Mission, brought to 17 the number of aid workers killed in Afghanistan this year, with another 19 abducted, according to the Afghan NGO Safety Office, a group that gives security advice to the 1,500 aid groups registered in the country. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

An interview with Ray D. Madoff, who is a professor at Boston College Law School, is presented. Madoff discusses the legal aspects of death, particularly the property of deceased persons. Madoff's book "Immortality and the Law: The Rising Power of the American Dead" and changes in property rights laws are discussed. Madoff also discusses the changes that have taken place in laws regarding corpses.

The Department of Defense has identified 1,090 American service members who have died as a part of the Afghan war and related operations. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans this week: FLORES, Michael P., 31, Staff Sgt., Air Force; San Antonio; 48th Rescue Squadron. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports on an unknown deadbody which was found in Marble Falls, Texas.

The article reports on the warning from the Chinese Ministry of Health that health workers involved in the improper disposal of dead infants will face disciplinary action.

Iraqi officials reached a tentative agreement on a new election law on Monday, even as workers continued to recover more bodies from the wreckage of Sunday's bomb attacks, including an uncertain number of children from two day care centers. The toll climbed to as many as 155 dead, with more than 500 wounded and an unknown number still missing. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

After days of fearing the worst, the police said they believed they found the body of Eridania Rodriguez, a 46-year-old woman missing since Tuesday night from an office building near ground zero where she worked as a cleaner. At 8:50 a.m. Saturday, during one of several searches of the 26-story building, at 2 Rector Street, an officer found a body inside an air-conditioning duct near the 12th floor, which was under construction, the police said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Billy Mays, a beloved and parodied pitchman who became a pop-culture figure through his commercials for cleaning products like Orange Glo, OxiClean and Kaboom, died Sunday at his home in Tampa, Fla. He was 50. The Tampa Police Department said Mr. Mays was unresponsive when discovered by his wife on Sunday morning and was pronounced dead at 7:45 a.m. by the Tampa Fire Rescue Department. An autopsy is expected to be completed by Monday afternoon, said Lt. Brian Dugan of the Tampa Police Department, who was one of the first responders to Mr. Mays's home. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Searchers recovered three bodies and scoured the ocean for two more members of a Navy flight crew on Wednesday after their helicopter went down in darkness on a training flight, the authorities said. The helicopter, an HH-60 Seahawk, took off from the carrier Nimitz and crashed at 11:36 p.m. Tuesday, 13 miles southwest of San Diego and 87 miles from the Nimitz. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The newspaper vendor who died after being struck by a police officer during the Group of 20 summit meeting earlier this month was killed by abdominal bleeding and not by a heart attack, according to an independent autopsy whose conclusions were released Friday. This flatly contradicts earlier assertions by the police, who maintained that the newspaper vendor, Ian Tomlinson, died of a heart attack. It also opens the door for possible manslaughter charges against the officer who attacked Mr. Tomlinson, pushing him and striking him from behind with a baton, shortly before he collapsed. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Seven bodies were dumped before dawn Tuesday at a school soccer field in the Mexican border city of Juarez. Neighbors found them along a fence, with three banners allegedly signed by a Mexican drug gang. Officials did not provide details about the messages. The local prosecutor's office said they had no suspects and were still trying to identify the victims. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A 90-year-old woman apparently had been living in a house with the bodies of three siblings, one of whom may have been dead since the early 1980s, the police said. Police Cmdr. Tom Guenther said the bodies were found Friday in Evanston, a Chicago suburb, after authorities were called by a senior advocate. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Jenny Ferrer was rushing to work 10 days ago when she heard a neighbor in her Washington Heights building calling for help, she recalled on Monday. ''As I was locking my door, I heard a faint voice say, 'Help me. Call 911,' '' Ms. Ferrer said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Investigators said they had found another 19 bodies buried behind two houses used by drug dealers in Ciudad Juarez, bringing the total number of corpses found there to 33. Agents began digging behind the houses on March 1, after they raided one of them, found 3,700 pounds of marijuana and arrested several people. All but three of the bodies appear to be men, and most have been buried at least five years. The cause of their deaths has not been determined, though Ciudad Juarez has for years been plagued by kidnappings and turf wars among drug gangs. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

They carried the body of Avraham David Moses, 16 years old, on a stretcher down the slope of the vibrant green cemetery here, shaded by tall pines, overlooking a valley, in utter silence. The boy was wrapped in a black-and-white prayer shawl, and as the pallbearers slipped him into the grave on Friday, the long silence was broken by quiet weeping and occasional sobs. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article informs about the discovery of two dead bodies by divers in Minneapolis, Minnesota searching the Mississippi river near the wreckage of a bridge over the river that collapsed on August 1, 2007. One of the bodies was identified by officials in Minneapolis as Peter J. Hausmann, a computer consultant. Investigators were examining gusset plates, metal plates that held the bridge's girders together as a cause for the collapse of the bridge, said Bruce A. Magladry.

The article presents information on the autopsy report of a woman's body, found in an apartment in New York City. As per the medical examination, held as part of criminal investigation, the woman was strangled and smothered with a towel. It is reported that the woman's boyfriend was charged with murder case.

The article reports that the body of Alen Gjonbalaj, superintendent in an Upper West Side prewar building in New York City, was found by the police. According to the police, Gjonbalaj was shot to death but the motive for the shooting was not known and they were searching for a suspect. Residents of the building said that the lock on the building's front door had been broken for about a week. The police said it was unclear whether forced entry and burglary was the motive of his death.

The article discusses the policy regarding the submission of obituaries. Photo of the deceased must bear their name which should be written on the back. Obituaries should be typewritten taking into account the rules of capitalization and must not exceed two hundred words. Obituaries must also include a contact name and number.

The article reports that workers, who went to a weathered two-story house at 3280 Perry Avenue in the Bronx, New York City, to remove the debris found bones inside the house. It has been confirmed by the office of medical examiner that the bones found in the house were human remains. The identity of the remains and cause of death could not be determined by autopsy.

The article reports that the slain body of Molly Jean Dilts was found and identified by authorities in Atlantic County, New York.

The article reports that bodies of four unidentified women were found in a ditch near Atlantic City, New Jersey. The bodies were lying face down in water, several feet apart from each other, behind the Golden Key Motel. The police have not given the cause of their deaths. The ditch in which the bodies were found runs along a strip of land near the Atlantic City Expressway. The woman passerby who found one of the bodies did not consider the area to be dangerous before this incident.

The article reports the bodies of two missing boys have been found in an icy park lagoon in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

The article reports on the illegal practices of medical personnel to trade in death tip-off in Serbia.

The article reports on the order for closure of Biomedical Tissue Services, a broker of human tissue in Fort Lee, New Jersey, by the Food and Drug Administration due to accusations for taking body parts from cadaver without family permission and for not always screening them for diseases.

The article reports that 11 dead bodies of young men were found in a rebel stronghold on January 31, 2006 in Baghdad, Iraq.

The article reports on the climate of anger and distrust among Muslims due to the refusal of the Russian authorities to hand over bodies of 89 men to their families for burial because of a collective punishment law that deny veneration of those who kill innocents in Russia.

Reports that a man's remains fell onto the detached garage of Pamela Hearne's home in South Floral Park, Nassau County, New York. Clarification on the source of the body parts; Identification of the man as a stowaway who had been hurt by the doors that protect the airplane's landing gear after takeoff.

Reports on the exhumation of a battered body of Emmett Till on Wednesday, June 1, 2005 in a cemetery in south suburban Chicago for a final autopsy.

Reports on the hope of families to find the dead bodies of their missing loved ones at the city morgue in Baghdad, Iraq.

Reports on the excavation of the remains of the missing U.S. pilot, Captain Troy Gordon Cope during the Korean War in China. Examination of the remains at a government laboratory in Hawaii; Schedule of the return of the remains to the family for burial with military honors; Identification of Cope as the first missing American soldier from the Korean War discovered on Chinese soil.

Reports on the discovery of a decomposed partial human torso at the Rapid Processing recycling plant in Greenpoint, New York City. Anticipation for the result of the DNA tests and the medical examiner's findings about the human remains; Suspension about the link of the torso and limbs found in similar recycling bags.

Reports on the discovery of the dead body of Thomas J. Gulotta, son of the former Nassau County executive in New York. Grief for the loss of the family member; Basis for the suicide theory of the police.

Reports on the guilty plea submitted by Ray Brent Marsh, manager of Tri-State Crematory to charges of theft, fraud, making false statements and abuse of a dead body in Georgia. Apology given to the families of some of the dead; Terms of plea bargain with prosecutors; Reaction of families to the sentence given to Marsh.

Reports on the guilty plea presented by the manager of Tri-State Crematory to charges of theft, fraud, making false statements and abuse of a dead body in Georgia.

Reports on the recovery of the remains of Lori Hacking by the police at a country landfill after searching through tons of garbage in Salt Lake City, Utah. Charges of murder against her husband Mack Hacking; Confession of Mack Hacking to shooting his wife and dumping her body in a trash bin.