The last two speakers of an indigenous Mexican language have stopped talking to each other, raising fears that the language will become extinct. The two men in their 70s from the village of Ayapan, Tabasco, in southern Mexico, are the only remaining speakers of their local version of the Zoque language.

In addition to a two-year probation, an Australian woman found guilty of animal sacrifice in a Brisbane church last month was ordered by the courts to issue an apology to the goat owners last Monday. Tracy Lee Arnold, aged 26, was accused of slaughtering a pet goat named Maddie at the Bellbowrie Community Church, as reported by Political Gateway. Arnold pled guilty to the charges of three counts of stealing and the injuring of an innocent animal - all of which was claimed to have been part of a Friday the 13th prank.

Irish physician Dr. Brendan Kelly conducted a tongue-in-cheek study, the findings of which he published in the medical journal Lancet. Dr. Kelly randomly selected 20 medical romance novels and found that majority leaned towards "brilliant, tall, muscular, male doctors with chiselled features, working in emergency medicine" who were "commonly of Mediterranean origin and had personal tragedies in their pasts", according to The Associated Press (AP).

At least 300 live venomous scorpions and spiders were seized by Philippine customs officials when a package from Hong Kong marked "personal clothing" was inspected Tuesday, a report said. The scorpions and spiders, which include deadly tarantulas, were packed in nets, bottles and transparent plastic boxes, which were concealed under clothes, report said.

A senior citizen British couple have the time of their lives every now and then when they check-in at the same Travelodge budget roadside motel for more than 20 years. They say their love for each other never ceases through the years. The couple, David Davidson, 79-year-old, and his wife, Jean, 70-year-old, started to get hooked at the motel when they visited a sick aunt in 1985 and since then, have regularly visited Travelodge.