"MOSCOW, June 26 (Reuters) - Cheap and illicit alcohol kills more than half Russian men and women in their most productive years and the government must act urgently to reverse the trend, a study to be published in The Lancet at the weekend said."

"To launch the Huddersfield Policy campaign, that Margaret Thatcher should pay for her own funeral, I have designed a postcard to protest the prospect of a state funeral for Margaret Thatcher. The person with most say on a state funeral is Elizabeth Windsor (sometimes known as the Queen), thus the cards should be sent to her, seeking to influence her decision making in advance of Margaret Thatcher's demise. You can download the card here, simply print, sign and post."

"It is forbidden to die in the Arctic town of Longyearbyen. ... The town's small graveyard stopped accepting newcomers 70 years ago, after it was discovered that the bodies were failing to decompose."

Old, but; ""More than 100 Tainan city residents, mostly men, have reportedly gone to see the corpse to 'experience' the size of its penis," the newspaper reported."

"A Hartlepool man is facing jail after he urinated on a disabled woman who lay dying in the street. The 27-year-old shouted "this is YouTube material" as he degraded Christine Lakinski, 50, who had fallen ill, magistrates heard."

“There have been two or three reports of public executions of North Korean young people in major cities including Chungjin, as punishment for having illegally copied and distributed South Korean visual material,”

A collection of blackbox recordings.

"'Do not hesitate with the use of a firearm, including when the border breakouts involve women and children, which the traitors have already frequently taken advantage of,' it reads."

"Neil Gaiman told SCI FI Wire that he chose to make his directorial debut with a big-screen adaptation of his graphic novel Death: The High Cost of Living because he didn't want anyone else to 'screw it up.'"

"Welcome to What Jeff Killed, your authoritative source for news and information about Jeff The Giant Orange Cat and his favorite pastime: killing things."

"But questions are being asked about why no-one has been concerned as to her whereabouts for the last six years."

"A custom severed horse head plush that is actually quite comfortable to sleep on, albeit a tad on the south side of morbid."

"I will stand up and say a few words during the evening and I know that's when the emotion will really kick in. I can't imagine looking people in the eye knowing it is the last time I will see many of them."