Three ancient statues, engraved with a little-understood sub-Saharan language, are unearthed in Sudan.

One study lists the technology-driven slang entering into use, while another shows that makes for slower reading.

Best known for its code-cracking work, Bletchley Park also played a role in the origins of the computer age.

Five lines of ancient script on a pottery shard could be the oldest Hebrew writing ever discovered, an archaeologist says.

BBC environment correspondent Richard Black joins a team looking and listening for beaked whales - probably the least understood large mammals on Earth.

An online dictionary of teenage-speak is launched to help frustrated parents decipher what their children are saying.

St Helens star Jon Wilkin reveals the dressing room secrets with his unique profiles of his team-mates ahead of the Challenge Cup final

Great Britain win a sixth gold in cycling, a silver in sailing, Usain Bolt strolls through the 200m heats, while Chinese star Liu Xiang limps out of the Olympics on day 10.

Usain Bolt smashes the world record to win 100m gold after cyclists Bradley Wiggins and Chris Hoy, swimmer Rebecca Adlington and rowing's men's coxless four win gold for GB.

An ex-US secret service informant is accused of being the ringleader in the country's biggest identity fraud case.

A 2,100-year-old "computer" found in a Roman shipwreck may have acted as a calendar for the Olympic Games.

A notebook found in a butler's cupboard could provide the answer to the question of who first taught a boy born deaf to speak.

Students, who turned radio journalists for the day, kept to their timetable and delivered the news.

From United Nations to the Welsh nation, ex UK ambassador to the UN Sir Emyr Jones Parry's hopes for the All Wales Convention he chairs.

A lost Beatles interview is to be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 for the first time since it was recorded in 1964.

If someone was killed in front of you would you remember what happened? Many experts are challenging the view that eyewitnesses recounting what they saw is the best way of tapping their memory. Some think brain scans could be the way forward.

Football comes full circle for Chelsea's Russian owner

The genetic blueprint of one of the world's strangest mammals is deciphered.

Our man sees tensions run high at Millennium Magic

People with Birmingham accents are being used to help teach call centre systems to understand regional dialects.