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Every Wednesday, the Sifter posts top-line summaries to current events around the globe. All news articles are from Reuters, The New York Times and BBC News. Google tweaks China site in bid to keep license [Reuters] – Google Inc is tweaking its China website in a last-ditch effort to save its search business in the [...]

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Because calling a group of animals a ‘group’ isn’t descriptive enough, the English language is curiously filled with a trove of strange collective nouns for different ‘groups’ of animals. Below is a list of 10 of the more bizarre choices. Enjoy! A GROUP OF HIPPOPOTAMUS’ ARE CALLED… A CRASH A GROUP OF ZEBRAS ARE CALLED… [...]

SANDS OF TIME Photograph by George Steinmetz / National Geographic A sea of dunes conjured by wind and water creates a magical sandscape on the northeastern coast of Brazil. Shoals of silvery fish swim in brilliant blue and green pools left behind by the rains. Lagoons are born anew each year after the January-June rains [...]