Man can hold on to pal's corpse

A Chinese man has been told can carry on storing his pal's dead body in a freezer.

Police officers found the corpse during a routine health and safety check at his Xiao Li Bei's warehouse in the Russian town of Novosibirsk.

He told police that his friend had died of natural causes two years ago.

Li Bei said: "I just thought it would be easier to store the body myself. There's so much bureaucracy here I knew the paperwork would be endless otherwise.

"And I have a large industrial freezer in my warehouse."

Prosecutors have said that unless new evidence turns up the man will able to continue storing his friend's body in the freezer as it is not actually illegal in Russia.