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 being berated by her parents who find her 'language' too difficult to understand, a schoolgirl has come up with a guide to teenage slang so her parents could understand her better. After writing "The A-Z of Teen Talk," 13-year old Lucy van Amerongen, from Box in Gloucestershire, is now "stoked" (very happy) because sales of her "nang" (cool) book are "owdish" (excellent).

A 16-year old boy who slept for the whole of 2007 in a tent in his garden just to raise $5,000 claims he now finds it hard to sleep in his own bed. Steve Young, of Borough Green, Kent said after spending a year in his tent, he was longing for a nice warm bed but now that he's back in his old bed, he just cannot get to sleep.

A 24-year old singer from Lincoln, Nebraska has been suffering non-stop hiccups for the past 11 months. Chris Sands, 24, acquired the hiccups last February and has literally tried everything just to get rid of the hiccups that during severe attacks leave him unable to sleep, eat or even breathe properly. But all attempts to end the hiccups - even holding his breath and drinking from the wrong side of a glass - have been in vain.

Authorities decided to drop a case filed against a 12-year old boy accused of assaulting an old man with a sausage. A "notice of discontinuation" was issued regarding the case that called for the boy to be brought to court for the incident. The investigations have reportedly cost a total of Ł20,000 ($8,000).