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An alternative to the way we normally bury our dead will soon be offered in Samoa.

A million tala plus crematorium being built inside the Tafaigata national cemetery will be opened next month.

Cremation is the process whereby a dead body is burned at high temperature until it turns into ashes. The process takes approximately 80 minutes.

In announcing the news, the owner, Pa’u Sefo Pa’u of Sefo’s Funeral Parlour at Moto’otua, is quietly confident that it will provide a much-needed service to the community.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Everyone who pays income tax - and some who don't -will feel it.

So will doctors who accept Medicare, people who get unemployment aid, defense contractors, air traffic controllers, national park rangers and companies that do research and development.

The package of tax increases and spending cuts known as the "fiscal cliff" takes effect in January unless Congress passes a budget deal by then. The economy would be hit so hard that it would likely sink into recession in the first half of 2013, economists say.

SYDNEY (AP) -- Tens of thousands of tourists, scientists and amateur astronomers who traveled from around the world to see a total solar eclipse in northern Australia may be getting shortchanged by the weather.

Forecasters were predicting cloudy skies around dawn Wednesday, when the moon will pass between the sun and Earth and plunge a slice of Australia's northeast into darkness. Many worried that they will miss a rare chance to view the celestial phenomenon.

Candidate for governor, Lolo Matalasi Moliga (right) accompanied by his running mate, candidate for lieutenant Sen. Lemanu Peleti Sialega Mauga makes the official announced Monday, Nov. 12 that the team has picked up endorsements and support for the Nov. 20 run off election for governor and lieutenant governor from three unsuccessful gubernatorial teams, who attended the news conference,.

Recently elected Hawaiian Democratic congresswoman and Iraq War veteran Tulsi Gabbard plans to swear her oath on Hindu sacred texts.

Rachel Rickard Straus of the Daily Mail reports:

Proud of her Hindu religion, she is not Indian or of Indian heritage. Ms Gabbard was born in American Samoa to a Catholic father - Hawaii State Senator Mike Gabbard - and a Hindu mother. She moved to Hawaii when she was two and fully embraced her religion as a teenager.

The father of a woman accused of killing her newborn baby allegedly had sex with her.

The 58-year-old Samoan man appeared on a charge of committing incest with his daughter when he appeared in Lower Hutt District Court yesterday. The offending allegedly happened in June this year, court documents show.

The 21-year-old daughter is accused of murdering her newborn baby on September 8. The dead infant, thought to be less than a day old, was found at the back of a property in Taita on September 10, wrapped in a towel.

Wales expect Samoa to look to twist the knife after Saturday's damaging defeat against Argentina at the Millennium Stadium.

While Rob Howley's side were going down 26-12, the islanders were destroying Canada 42-12 at Colwyn Bay, scoring five tries, four of them from their exciting wing discovery Robert Lilomaiava.

And Wales's players now reckon Kahn Fotuali'i, Census Johnston and Co will be scenting blood after the most dispiriting Welsh defeat since Warren Gatland took over in 2008.

Saturday was a fantastic day for the Lilomaiava household at Fagali’i.

As Samoa celebrated Manu Samoa’s 42-12 win over Canada, the family of the debutant who scored four of the Manu’s five tries knelt in prayer and thanksgiving.

Robert Lilomaiava’s father, VisesioLilomaiava could not have been prouder of his son.

For the truck driver at Apia Haulage Limited, seeing his second eldest child on TV in Manu Samoa’s proud blue jersey was a teary moment.

E fo’i fiafia nai turisi i le afiafi ananafi ua malilie i le matagofie o Amerika Samoa, ae nonofo fiafia ni isi o le au ave taxi ma le au ave pasi ma latou taga ua tutumu i faamanuiaga tau tupe, sa maua i a latou pasese na maua mai i le meli.

Na feoa’i fiafia solo le toatele o turisi na malaga mai i le vaa o le Celebrity X Cruises i laufanua lanulauava o Amerika Samoa i le taeao ananafi, ina ua maua le avanoa latou te molimauina ai foliga matagofie o le taulaga ma nuu i tua i le taimi o a latou tafaoga pupuu.

E 6 auala ua faailoa mai e tatau ona tausia ai le soifua maloloina o fanau laiti, ina ia soifua maloloina ma aua ne’i tino puputa i latou.

I le mau na o’o mai ma sui iloga o le National Head Start Program ina ia matatuina ma mulimulita’ia e le tatou fo’i Polokalama o A’oa’oga Amata a le Fanauiti, ia manuia ma toe talia le latou talosaga mo lona fa’atupega.

O le ala muamua na fa’ailo, ia tausia lelei le “Soifua Maloloina ‘Aua le so’ona puputa!”