Botanists are creating a ‘family tree’ to save the putrid-smelling corpse flower from extinction

Even though it smells like rotting flesh, the so-called ‘Corpse Flower’ is a huge draw at botanical gardens all over the world. In addition to its shockingly putrid scent, it can grow over ten feet tall and only blooms every few years—and even then just for a few days. But the flower, which originates in … Read more

Video captures shocking scenes in Naples hospital with corpse of ‘covid patient’ slumped in toilet

Video has emerged of a corpse sprawled across a hospital lavatory in a makeshift ward overflowing with coronavirus patients amid spiralling cases and deaths in Italy. The unidentified man was a suspected coronavirus sufferer who had been waiting for a test in the packed, squalid A&E waiting room of Cardarelli Hospital in Naples.  The man … Read more

Donald Trump ‘claimed Kim Jong Un told him he’d displayed his executed uncle’s decapitated corpse’

Donald Trump has claimed that the headless body of Kim Jong Un’s executed uncle was displayed to senior North Korean officials. The US President told the author of an upcoming book on the US president that the dictator confided that he had his uncle’s head displayed after ordering his execution in 2013.  Jang Song Thaek, the … Read more

Horror at Prince William and Kate Middleton’s Kensington Palace as a corpse found in the park pond

Overlooking one of London’s most beautiful parks has many advantages for the residents of Kensington Palace, who include the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their children, as well as Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank. But there was horror last weekend when word got round that a body had been retrieved from the ornamental lake … Read more

Drew Barrymore says her grandfather’s corpse was stolen from the morgue for a poker game by friends

Drew Barrymore says her grandfather John’s corpse was stolen from the morgue by Erroyl Flynn for a poker game after his death in 1942 By Caitlyn Becker For Dailymail.com Published: 16:42 BST, 21 August 2020 | Updated: 16:42 BST, 21 August 2020 Actor John Barrymore’s corpse was apparently taken out for a final spin by … Read more

Corpse discovered after 30 years in Paris mansion basement

Corpse is discovered after lying for THIRTY years in the basement of a crumbling £30m Paris mansion yards from the PM’s official residence Mansion was sold at auction for €35.1m (£29.9m) to investment banker in Jan. Technicians were sent into the crumbling property ahead of restoration works  Discovered corpse under rubble and floorboards and police were … Read more

Ukrainian rapper’s wife ‘who chopped up her dead husband’s corpse’ appears in court

The wife of a popular rap singer who is accused of murdering her husband and reportedly chopping up his body and keeping it in a fridge in their home appeared in court today.   The dismembered body of artist Andy Cartwright, 30, was found in his flat in Russia and his wife claimed he had died of a … Read more

Christian Brueckner said ‘you can make corpse disappear quickly when discussing Madeleine McCann’

Christian Brueckner shouted ‘the child is dead now – and that’s a good thing!’ when colleagues discussed Madeleine McCann – before screaming ‘you can make a corpse disappear quickly! Pigs also eat human flesh!’ Lenta Johlitz, 34, worked at a kiosk shop in northern German town Braunschweig She said  Christian Brueckner wanted her friends to stop … Read more

Coronavirus Brazil: Corpse lies on Rio streets for 30 hours

A dead man’s body lay on the streets of Rio for 30 hours amid Brazil‘s  soaring coronavirus death toll that has reached more than 20,000.  The family of Valnir da Silva, 62, say he was a victim of the coronavirus pandemic that is tearing its way through Rio’s marginalised communities, stretching public services beyond their limits.  … Read more