Following the funeral of Pope Francis, his coffin is transported from the Vatican, through the streets of Rome, to its final ...

Funeral home manager Chris Woonings says the use of a non-traditional hearse can be part of providing ... changes that needed to be made. "We had a coffin on the back and it rained really bad ...

The Colorado funeral home owner accused of leaving a woman’s corpse in the back of a hearse in Denver for over a year and improperly stashing the cremated remains of at least 30 people pleaded ...

Getty Images/iStockphoto A funeral director arrested after an eviction uncovered a woman’s corpse that had been kept in a hearse for 18 months has pleaded guilty, Colorado prosecutors say.

Funerals are typically traditional affairs. When sending off a loved one for the final time, many choose a sombre black hearse to carry the coffin to its final resting place without a second thought.

In Japan, some tour buses have been repurposed as hearses, providing “compassionate” funeral services that enable families to visit meaningful places with their deceased loved ones.

Now, researchers say they’ve discovered the first physical evidence of human-animal gladiatorial combat in Europe: bite marks on the skeleton of a young, muscular man that were likely made by a ...

Ahead of Saturday's funeral, the coffin of Pope Francis was sealed in St Peter's Basilica on Friday evening. The three-day viewing period ended at around 7 pm, signalled by a changing of the ...