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Former US President Bill Clinton is using his 64th birthday on Thursday to improve lives around the world. And to do it, he's using Birthday Wish, a service of the Causes website that makes it easy to ask people to do good things on your birthday.

His favourite words are Anglo-Saxon, like "bundle", although followers of his Twitter feed are used to more colourful phrases. Stephen Fry will ask in a new BBC series where language comes from and whether we are better at speaking than we were.

Sites such as Seekingmillionaire.com, where men sign up for $25,000 and women pay nothing, are at one end the spectrum. At the other end, there's Seventy Thirty, an exclusive matchmaking service for the rich in London's Knightsbridge district.

Jordan Romero's team set off from Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, last month, to go to the Chinese side of the mountain. Nepal insists that anyone planning to climb Mount Everest must be 16, but China does not impose any age restrictions.

Bukhari has more speakers in Queens than in Uzbekistan or Tajikistan. Other rare languages spoken in New York include Aramaic, Chaldic and Mandaic. You can hear Chamorro (from the Mariana Islands) and Rhaeto-Romanic (from Switzerland) in Brooklyn.

People are moving to Melbourne. Young families want to live there and immigrants are arriving in record numbers. With its long-term population growth of 1.3 per cent a year, Melbourne will displace Sydney as Australia's largest city before 2040.

Archdeacon Gary Harch will be working in the Irish Club Hotel in Toowoomba on Easter Sunday. "I enjoy a drink or two, and so do a lot of people; and I think some people will enjoy the more informal-style mass." The church is coming to the pub.

"There is but one night a year in New York to revel in Scottish fashion, and it is called Dressed to Kilt. And oh, what a night it is! The evening allows the stars, who stud the runway, to showcase their personas as much as the couture." — Vanity Fair

The Israeli supermodel denies she is engaged to Leonardo DiCaprio after she was seen wearing a ring on her wedding finger. "Let me explain," she told People: "These rings, made by a friend of mine, won't fit any other finger except this one."