"A 52-year-old man -- who lay dead in the bed of his River Heights condominium for nearly two years -- stopped getting mail this month because his caretaker said he moved out, Canada Post says. 'Why were we told a couple of weeks ago that he moved?' asked Brian Garagan, the Winnipeg-based Canada Post spokesman. 'The caretaker told the letter carrier that this guy moved.'"

"A South African man's body has been buried after being preserved by his widow for eight weeks because a prophet predicted he would come back to life. The owner of a funeral parlour kept Paul Meintjes' body 'on ice' for weeks before returning it to the family home. His widow then kept the body in a coffin by her bed for three days - apparently awaiting his return to life."

"Police have found the mummified remains of a Winnipeg man in bed in his condominium, where he may have lain unnoticed for up to two years.... The exact date of death couldn't be determined, but a newspaper in the man's room was dated November 2002, police said. "

"Experts who examined the body of Otzi, the ice man who died in the Italian Alps 5300 years ago, have been given three months to investigate another body from the same place. The second body is one of three soldiers of the Austro-Hungarian empire who died in battle on September 3, 1918, 3684m metres up in the Italian Alps.... The experts will be trying to establish why Otzi retained his hair and nails for 5300 years, while the Austrians lost theirs in less than 90.Agencies"

"Gardner, shockingly, was defeated by a Kazakhstani 10 years his junior in the semi-finals of the 120-kilogram super-heavyweight class.... Two years ago he lost a toe from frostbite after his snowmobile crashed through a frozen lake surface - and he was obliged to spend 18 hours in the snowy wilderness before being spotted by a private plane. Doctors told him they would have to amputate one foot and it was unlikely that he would ever walk again....He confirmed that his missing toe is preserved back home in Wyoming in a jar of formaldehyde in the fridge, but in Athens he wouldn't recommend refrigerating other separated body parts."

"According to some scientists, what the ancient Chinese were able to achieve in body preservation leaves the Egyptians in their dust. The body of Lady Dai of the Western Han Dynasty, housed in the state of the art Hunan Museum, attracts flocks of visitors every day. When people gaze at the body, they cannot help but wonder, how did they do it? But from now on, people do not have to travel to China's Changsha City to pay her the visit, as the archaeology documentary film 'Diva Mummy', featuring her and two other almost equally well preserved Han bodies, will debut on the US National Geographic Channel, September 6, 2004, as part of the kick-off of the National Geographic Channel's 'Most Amazing Discoveries' series."

"The body of an Austrian soldier, one of three found preserved in an Alpine glacier since 1918, will be handed over to an Italian archaeological museum for research, authorities in the province of Trento said. The museum at Bolzano, in northern Italy, will be allowed to preserve and study the remains, discovered at the foot of a glacier 3400m above sea level. The other two Austrian soldiers were scheduled to be buried this afternoon at an Italian military cemetery in the town of Peio."

"An amateur Italian historian has found the preserved bodies of three Austro-Hungarian soldiers in an Alpine glacier, 86 years after they were killed in World War I. The soldiers' uniforms were mostly intact including leather belts, a gas mask and a cap with a star on it. Historians are already studying Vicenzi's find and believe the men were probably killed by a grenade, according to the BBC."

"The bodies of three Austrian soldiers killed in World War One have been found frozen and almost perfectly preserved in an Italian Alpine glacier. Mountain rescue worker Maurizio Vicenzi discovered the mummified bodies on Friday, encased upside down in ice at 3,640 meters (11,940 ft) altitude on San Matteo mountain near the Swiss and Austrian borders."

"An ancient walled city complex inhabited about 1 300 years ago by a tribe and later conquered by the Incas has been discovered deep in Peru's Amazon jungle, explorers said on Tuesday....
Covered in matted tree branches and interspersed with lakes and waterfalls, the settlement sites also contain well-preserved graveyards with mummies."

Blackpool, UK: Two views: Educational (bbc.co.uk) or Sick (bbc.co.uk)

Nanjing, China: Report (peopledaily.com.cn) with four photos

"The 2000-year-old body of a Han Dynasty female is still well preserved and shows little sign of deterioration."

"The trade in human organs is now a profitable venture in China. Foreigners from Southeast Asia, Taiwan or even Canada seek kidney transplants in China where Shanghai has become the main center for organ transplants. According to reliable sources within the Shanghai Police department, some police officers are conspiring with greedy doctors to sell the organs of dead prisoners for large sums of money.... Recently, German Doctor Gunther von Hagens, held a human anatomy exhibition that was condemned by many human rights associations. It was revealed by the German media that some of the corpses in Dr. Hagens’ exhibition were those of executed Chinese prisoners. Dr. Hagens admitted that some of the bodies he exhibited had been shot in the head. Bright Mirror Weekly of Germany reported that Dr. Hagens has been trading in human corpses and organs for more than ten years. He has three sites for his business, the biggest in Dalian, located close to three Chinese labor camps. This site was formerly managed by Dr. Sui Hongjin, who hired 170 Chinese employees."

"The 2000-year-old body of a Han Dynasty female is still well preserved and shows little sign of deterioration."

"Police in eastern Nigeria discovered skulls and corpses of more than 50 people in shrines where a secretive cult was believed to have carried out traditional ritual killings, a police spokesman said Thursday. Two religious leaders and 28 others were arrested in connection with the Wednesday discovery of bleached skulls, fresh corpses and others partly mummified at 20 shrines in forests near the town of Okija...."