"They didn't know how to embalm and so they would cut the organs out of the body and tell the relatives to flush them down the toilet or put them in a plastic bag and throw them in the rubbish containers," Korzukhin said. "Can you imagine the organs of your relatives being thrown in the garbage? More →

ALMATY (AFP) - British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen -- savaged by the government of Kazakhstan for his bitingly satirical new film on the Central Asian state -- might justifiably feel vindicated. On Thursday it emerged that the country's august central bank had spelt "bank" wrong on its newly-issued banknotes. More →

In one scene Borat insists on driving to California rather than flying, "in case the Jews repeat their attack of 9/11." As he tours the South, he becomes terrified when he learns that an elderly couple who run an inn are Jewish. When cockroaches crawl under the door of his room, he becomes convinced the innkeepers have transformed themselves into bugs, and throws money at them. More →