PICTURE OF THE WEEK: A family member pays last respects to an effigy of a person missing in the flash floods during a symbolic funeral on the banks of the Bagmati near the Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu

KATHMANDU — White smoke billowed over the banks of the Bagmati River running through the Nepalese capital. A Hindu funeral ritual was underway, in...

Nepali families held symbolic funerals on Sept. 2 to “liberate the souls” of relatives missing since deadly flash floods swept away their villages and homes in the Himalayan…