Here, he makes a touching statement about the importance of education and the work UNICEF is doing:

“Every child has the right to an education. Education transforms lives and breaks the cycle of poverty that so many children are caught in. And an educated child will make sure his or her own children receive an education too. This is just another one of the many amazing ways UNICEF is helping children today, while also building a safer Kenya tomorrow.”

The Elephant Foundation was started by David Niederhoffer after he watched his grandfather suffer with the disease and decided to take action. To raise money, David has celebrities pose with a stuffed elephant and sign an Elephant Project card which is then auctioned off. The winner of the auction receives an 8×10 of their chose star, a signed card and the stuffed animal. So far Hollywood hotshots like Zac Efron, Adam Sandler, Julie Andrews, and MANY more have donated their time to help raise over 11,000 dollars for the foundation.

::justjared

The secretive industry has struggled as the credit crunch has shut off the cheap loans that have financed deals.

The transaction will involve buying its Amsterdam-listed investment fund and listing the new company in New York.

An original plan to sell $1.25bn (£0.6bn) shares to the public fell through because of market turmoil.

"Moving forward with a public listing will allow KKR to do what we do best - grow companies around the world and produce solid returns for our investors from a larger platform and deeper capital base," KKR founders Henry Kravis and George Roberts said.

Rival Blackstone, which became the first US private equity firm to go public when it listed in June 2007, has seen its shares drop sharply.

Private equity firms have faced challenges as the cheap financing to fund their deals has dried up amid the credit crunch.

Founded in 1976, KKR's 1989 buyout of tobacco firm RJR Nabisco was the subject of a best-selling book "Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco".

::BBC

British billionaire Sir Richard Branson and American aerospace designer Burt Rutan are due Monday to show off their mother ship, which is designed to air launch a passenger-toting spaceship out of the atmosphere.

The last time there was this level of buzz in the high desert north of Los Angeles was in 2004, when throngs of spectators gathered to witness SpaceShipOne capture the $10-million Ansari X Prize by becoming the first private, manned craft to reach space. It was designed by Mr. Rutan and bankrolled by Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen.

SpaceShipOne ushered in a new space age dominated by deep-pocketed entrepreneurs with dreams of making space voyages as mundane as airplane travel. That vision remains unfulfilled.

Among the new space entrepreneurs is the swashbuckling Sir Richard, who teamed with Mr. Rutan's publicity-shy Scaled Composites LLC to commercialize SpaceShipOne. Its successor, SpaceShipTwo, is being designed out of the public eye, along with the carrier aircraft White Knight Two.

Though technical details remain guarded, tidbits about the vehicles have trickled out: The twin-fuselage White Knight Two will have the same wingspan – 43 metres – as the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, the Second World War bomber.

It will launch SpaceShipTwo, which will be the size of a corporate Gulfstream capable of carrying six passengers and two pilots. Both will be built wholly from ultra-light composite materials.

Only White Knight Two will be unveiled at Monday's rollout, expected to be attended by politicians, government regulators and space tourism customers. Flight testing is slated for the end of September after ground tests in August.

::globeandmail.com