Marie Smith Jones, 89, the last Eyak Indian, has died and with her the Eyak tongue; one of 20 languages spoken in northwestern Alaska. "She understood as only someone in her unique position could, what it meant to be the last of her kind," Michael Krauss, a linguist at the Alaska Native Languages Center, told the Anchorage Daily News. "I don't know why it's me, why I'm the one. I tell you, it hurts. It really hurts," Jones once said of being the last one to talk the language.

After call centers and other backroom operations, India has developed a unique outsourcing service: wombs for rent. In a small clinic at Kaival Hospital in Anand, infertile couples worldwide could be matched with local Indian women who could deliver their babies at a cost of around $10,000. The fee already includes the entire procedure, including fertilization, medical expenses and the fee for the surrogate mother.

indu priests and religious officials in India are protesting against a U. S. -based company's decision to sell undergarments emblazoned with images of Hindu gods and sacred religious icons. Officials from India's eastern state of Orissa have pressed the U. S. government to seek actions against California-based Cafepress. com, a website under fire for selling intimate apparel featuring sacred Hindu deities and holy places, such as Jagannath temple, considered to be among the most sacred Hindu temples in India.

A customer of the Indian River Mall discovered more than $5,000 hidden inside a sneaker while shopping for shoes. He reportedly found the cash stashed inside the toe of the sneaker, as he was trying it on. The 71-year old man, who chose to remain anonymous, was reportedly looking for a pair of size 10 shoes. A store clerk at the Dillard's store went to the storeroom and brought back the shoes. Upon putting it on, the man felt a mass in the shoe's toe, and thought it was a balled-up tissue paper.

An Indian businessman kidnapped on Monday in the Philippines escaped from his abductors on Wednesday and went to the police, who arrested three of his kidnappers, fellow Indians themselves. Police from Bataan province in the central island of Luzon learned they busted an Indian syndicate that abducts fellow Indians in exchange for ransom when other Indian victims emerged after the arrest of the three Indians in separate locations in the Philippines.