Human Communications, Mick Jagger & Noah's Ark

An international set of specifications for writing non-verbal human communications in computer code is being drawn up by a US web standards group. Computer scientists backing the project believe that the language could improve cross-cultural communications and might eventually lend itself to virtual reality and artificial intelligence applications.

Mick Jagger was said to be fuming after a picture of the ageing Rolling Stone was used for the front cover of a British seniors' magazine, Saga.

Military and private satellite snapshots of Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey reveal an anomaly that researchers say might be the remains of Noah's Ark.