People are strange when it comes to their obsession with celebrity, but a Paris cemetery is hoping the most dedicated of fans are willing to pay handsomely to be buried near their idols.

Instead of a cash prize, entrants can instead win the chance to be buried in one of the French capital’s most celebrated cemeteries.

The French embassy said it moved a memorial in a Kosovo cemetery honouring Serbian soldiers who died in World War I and the early 20th Century Balkan Wars after it caused “controversy”, and installed ...

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In Northern France, entire landscapes remain uninhabitable — poisoned by arsenic, gas, and millions of shells buried since World War I. Known as the Red Zones, these are the scars left by history’s ...

The stories of French winemakers will be featured in the St. Helena Historical Society’s 17th annual “Spirits of St. Helena” Cemetery Discovery Walk on Sunday, Sept. 22. This year’s theme is “Vive Le ...

Some time ago, Janet Gerlach and her husband were walking in the American cemetery in Normandy, France, when Jan spotted a headstone for Anton Bauman from North Dakota.. "I took a picture, hoping I ...

THIAROYE: Holes in the ground, clods of earth next to headstones, dislocated concrete outlines: the Thiaroye military cemetery near Dakar bears the marks of recent excavations meant to unearth the ...

SAINTE-GENEVIÈVE-DES-BOIS, France — The largest Russian Orthodox cemetery outside of Russia is quiet on a winter morning, save for birdsong in the birch and pine trees planted between the graves. Just ...