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By Hereward Holland MANYANI, Kenya (Reuters) - Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki set fire to five tonnes of contraband ivory on Wednesday, a symbol of his and Africa's renewed commitment to fight poaching.

When Dolores Labs changed its name to CrowdFlower, it left behind a sprawling loft of an office, a hip logo, and a culture of innovation. A VC firm seized the opportunity. When Dan Scholnick of Trinity Ventures was considering investing in San Francisco-based crowdsourcing start-up Dolores Labs, he laid one significant stipulation on the company's CEO, Lukas Biewald

“Hey, four-eyes!” That playground taunt is more accurate when applied to Anableps anableps --a fish related to the guppy. It lives in the brackish waters of mangrove swamps in central and South America, and hunts for food at the water's surface..

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By Katy Migiro NAIROBI (Reuters) - The United Nations declared famine in two regions of southern Somalia Wednesday and said it could quickly spread unless donors took action.

The company is so ubiquitous it has no incentive to "delight" users. Wikipedia topped the social media sites for customer satisfaction.

Every week, I will post a quick Q&A with one of our new bloggers on the network, so you can get to know them better. [More]

By Barbara Lewis and Henning Gloystein LONDON/DUESSELDORF, Germany (Reuters) - The accelerating dash for natural gas risks a bitter backlash as the environmental cost of exploiting new shale deposits and of transporting it in liquid form spoil its credentials as the greenest fossil fuel. [More]

I’m going through the steps of starting up FamiliesGo!, a travel planning website for families, and I would like to file the business with New York State as a limited liability company. I have the papers on my desk.

While the bloggers are so prolific (you have to remember they had to wait several months until the launch, having blog posts all written and ready to go in advance) I feel I need to do these summaries almost daily. [More]

With all of the discussion about future U.S.

By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An iconic species of the American West, the whitebark pine, is at risk of extinction from climate change and disease, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said on Tuesday, but no immediate action is planned.

Until very recently, even Rupert Murdoch's sharpest critics might have admitted to envying the 80-year-old arch-conservative News Corporation CEO, who built a far-reaching media empire almost from scratch and made himself outstandingly rich even among billionaires. Now, though, amidst a phone hacking and corruption scandal that threatens to permanently damage his company, Murdoch is struggling to defend himself. Summoned to testify in front of a British Parliament committee investigating the scandal on Tuesday, he called it "the most humble day" of his career--and that was before a protester flung a shaving cream pie at his face

By Eric Hand of Nature magazine As the space shuttle glides through its final week, another arm of the US space program faces a bleak future. [More]

More than a quarter of American adults have what’s called poor health literacy. They're likely to have trouble interpreting important written health information --or have difficulties communicating well with doctors and nurses. But does that mean they're actually more likely to miss taking scheduled medications or get sick?