https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed A grieving family was forced to halt a funeral in southern Italy when it emerged that they were about to bury the wrong man. https://www.thelocal.it/20161108/italian-funeral-halted-after-corpse-mix-up Tue, 08 Nov 2016 11:16:18 +0100 italian-funeral-halted-after-corpse-mix-up In a macabre example of how Italy's notorious bureaucracy can cause problems not only throughout one's life but also after death, a corpse has been lying in a freezer in Bolzano Hospital for eight years due to a legal dispute among the relatives of the deceased. https://www.thelocal.it/20160811/a-corpse-has-been-lying-in-an-italian-morgue-for-eight-years Thu, 11 Aug 2016 13:24:24 +0200 a-corpse-has-been-lying-in-an-italian-morgue-for-eight-years A 200-strong crowd snatched the body of a member of a mafia clan from a Naples hospital in the middle of the night, it has emerged. https://www.thelocal.it/20140821/200-storm-hospital-to-nab-mafia-relatives-body Thu, 21 Aug 2014 18:37:00 +0200 200-storm-hospital-to-nab-mafia-relatives-body A man whose son died aged 20 has had his remains exhumed and cremated, so that his ashes could be transformed into a diamond. The case is thought to be the first of its kind in Italy. https://www.thelocal.it/20131220/italian-man-turns-sons-remains-into-diamond Fri, 20 Dec 2013 13:26:00 +0100 italian-man-turns-sons-remains-into-diamond The body of a 68-year-old woman, wrapped in bed sheets and sitting upright on a chair, has been found in the bedroom closet of a villa near Cuneo, northern Italy. The grim discovery of "The Holy woman", made on Sunday by her son-in-law, has rocked the small village of Borgo San Dalmazzo. https://www.thelocal.it/20131030/pensioners-mummified-body-found-in-closet Wed, 30 Oct 2013 14:03:00 +0100 pensioners-mummified-body-found-in-closet