Funeral

science

Gerontologist braces for his big freeze

Cryonics, the frozen suspension of bodies for their eventual reanimation, has inspired movies for decades. While still scorned by many scientists, a Bavarian gerontologist has prepared his own frozen preservation after a lifetime of studying aging in humans.

Crime

Swift justice promised as Tugce buried

As hundreds gathered for the funeral of Tugce Albayrak, the student fatally beaten after intervening in a fight, prosecutors said they would act quickly against suspects.

Crime

Funeral home 'sold dead people's passports'

UPDATE: Police raided a funeral home and 18 other properties across Berlin on Thursday morning to crackdown on a gang suspected of selling the passports of the dead to people smugglers.

Angela Merkel

GroKo and a two-tonne statue - the week in pics

The Local's selection of the week's best news pictures includes a VW camper van, funeral urns, striking Amazon workers and a flinging Father Christmas.

Police

Woman slept next to dead mum for months

A Munich woman who could not afford to bury her mother spent eight months sleeping next to her decomposing corpse, which she kept on a sofa bed in her bedroom, a newspaper reported on Saturday.