Gene Simmons says wearing high heels keeps him fit. The Kiss bassist claims he never gains weight, despite gorging on cakes and other sweet treats, because performing in his huge leather stage costume and stacked shoes help him burn off excess calories.

He said: "When you train your body to walk on these platform heels for hours and carry 30 pounds of guitar and leather outfits, it's a terrific workout."

Certain tongue and pharyngeal exercises may reduce symptoms of mild obstructive sleep apnea, according to a new study by the American Thoracic Society.

The study is the first to suggest that these exercises could help people suffering from mild sleep apnea.

ewbury Park Primary School, located in Redbridge, northeast London, has a competitive edge that no other school in the world can probably equal-it teaches its 850 students 40 languages.

According to British newspaper The Independent, the school has adopted a policy of teaching each language spoken by the 40 ethnic groups represented in the school.

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.

A cloned pig bioengineered by Chinese scientists to glow fluorescent green when exposed to ultraviolet light has produced two piglets that also glow in the same way.

Liu Zhonghua, a professor overseeing the breeding program of cloned and genetically-altered pigs at Northeast Agricultural University in China's Heilongjiang Province, reported the birth of the special piglets in the school's website on Tuesday. The breeding program is aimed at developing technology to produce pigs whose organs will be transplanted to humans.