1.   Navy officials said the ceremony was not a formal military burial at sea, because none of the three were military veterans.

2.   Scattering ashes is usually cheaper than a formal burial, but not all faiths endorse it.

3.   Eighty years after they died on a World War I battlefield, three British soldiers were given a formal burial with honors in northern France on Wednesday.

4.   In addition, there will be formal burials of what remains of thousands of victims whose bodies rotted where they were struck down in several churches.

5.   Officials said that a formal state burial would be held.

6.   On Sunday, the remains of victims shoved into a mass grave will receive formal burial in the southwestern town of Gikongoro.

7.   Relatives of Nationalist leader Generalissmo Chiang Kai-shek want his remains moved to China for a formal burial, an official said Saturday.