1. New Plan to Help Farmers Reverse the Effects of Climate Change

The Coffee Research Foundation has started an ambitious programme to help farmers reverse the effects of global warming and boost coffee production. The institution is holding farmer sensitisation clinics, urging farmers to plant favourable indigenous trees to provide shade and to practise water harvesting methods.

2. Chef in Los Angeles Who Boiled His Wife for 10 Days on Trial 

A chef on trial Tuesday for his wife's murder told sheriff's investigators that they couldn't find his wife's body because he had cooked it for four days in boiling water until little was left but her skull.

3. 30 Years of Emoticons

Smileys have existed for 30 years. To celebrate this the time magazine looks at their story and gives a slide of "live" emoticons.

4. Foreigners Eye Kenya's Geothermal Energy

Energy Development Corp(EDC) a pioneer in the geothermal energy industry in Philippines, has set its eyes on Kenya upon announcing its plan to expand. It is a listed company with over 35 years experience of technical expertise in the field and will look to study the local setting before setting  offices. Such have already been set up in Chile and Indonesia, and a base in Peru is in the making.

5. LG Launch New Phone

The South Korean electronics giant said the new gadget — called Optimus G — would hit domestic stores next week before sales begin in Japan in October and other regions including North America in November. The launch comes days after Apple unveiled the much-anticipated iPhone 5 which garnered more than two million orders in just 24 hours. Samsung Electronics, which has sold more than 20 million of its Galaxy S III smartphone launched in late May, is set to introduce the newest version of its popular oversized Galaxy Note smartphone in the market soon.

6. Google buys Snapseed, firm Behind Apple's Photo sharing App

Google has announced that it has acquired Nik Software, a German software company behind the popular photo application Snapseed on Apple's iOS platform. "We want to help our users create photos they absolutely love and in our experience Nik does this better than anyone," said Google Senior Vice President Vic Gundotra in a post on Google's social networking service Google+.

7. 7 Craziest Things Connected to the Internet

In the information age everything comes with an internet connection. What are the strangest of them all? CNN money takes a look at it.

8. NSSF Bloated Staff Costs Eating into Pensioners Money

The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) is on the spot for extravagance that saw it book three out of every four shillings contributed by workers as administration expenses in 2011, the latest year for which data is available.