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BBC News embarks on a unique project telling the story of international trade by tracking a shipping container around the world for a year.

Yesterday, at its headquarters in Paris, Unesco unveiled its first comprehensive and online database of the world's endangered tongues. According to its team of specialists, there are around 2,500 languages at risk, including more than 500 considered "critically endangered" and 199 which have fewer than 10 native speakers.

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One pioneering scheme in Bangladesh has become famous for its "telephone ladies".

This bus, like many others, has been transformed into a mobile internet centre, and it travels around Tunisia teaching students of all ages how to log on, surf the net, and obtain information electronically that can help them in their studies and in finding jobs.

THE number of people going online has passed one billion for the first time, according to comScore, an online metrics company.

The biggest ship on the world's waters is delivering record amounts of goods to Europe this Christmas, all the way from China, reflecting the country's rise as the world?s new manufacturing hub.

Global poll also reveals six out of 10 adults in UK have gone on to meet up in 'real life' with someone they met online.

A survey of more than 27,000 web users in 16 countries has shown that the Chinese spend the largest fraction of their leisure time online.