COPENHAGEN (AFP) — Italian carmaker Ferrari is suing a Danish funeral home that specially designed an urn in the shape of a Ferrari to fulfill the wishes of a young boy who died of cancer, the funeral home told AFP on Friday. "Ferrari in Italy is claiming that we marketed the urn and that we are misusing the brand ... They are suing us for 250,000 kroner (46,000 dollars, 33,500 euros)," the owner of the Begravelses Service funeral home, Carzten Mark, told AFP.

By Steve Down

The aftermath of hurricane Katrina has reminded the world, if reminders were needed, of the fragility of human life. Within a relatively short space of time, thousands of people died in a horrific natural disaster. A far worse episode was the Asian tsunami, in which more than 180,000 people are known to have perished and 42,000 are listed as officially missing. But aside from the sad and extensive loss of life, the sheer number of dispersed bodies poses another problem.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Call it theatre of the macabre: a jar containing a small piece of tissue from the body of John Wilkes Booth, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln's killer, will be on display when the musical "Assassins" opens in Philadelphia. In fact, it will be a twin bill: theatregoers will also be able view a piece of the brain of the lesser-known presidential assassin Charles Guiteau, the man who killed President James Garfield in 1881.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California will resume construction on a roomier death chamber next Friday after work was delayed by a state budget impasse, hoping the new facility will kick-start its stalled execution process. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a statement on Thursday that the lethal injection facility at San Quentin State Prison, 18 miles north of San Francisco, should be completed in about 10 weeks.

NEW YORK  -- Hilly Kristal, whose dank Bowery rock club CBGB served as the birthplace of the punk rock movement and a launching pad for bands like the Ramones, Blondie and the Talking Heads, has died. He was 75. Kristal, who lost a bitter fight last year to stop the club's eviction from its home of 33 years, died Tuesday at Cabrini Hospital after a battle with lung cancer, his son Mark Dana Kristal said Wednesday.